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[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 49 points 1 month ago
[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 132 points 1 month ago

While grateful for the explanation, I find myself no less confused.

[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 47 points 1 month ago

I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself.

The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.

Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think the problem is taking two separate photos from two different events on different days and thinking people would put them together.

I bet you could find all sorts of separate photos of musicians from different events where one has armor and another has a red cape.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Okay, this pretty much helps, but now I don't know what a VMA or an SNL is.

I'm going to go with "Viking Marauder Awards", a yearly event where people re-enact the sacking of the Lindesfarne Monastery etc, via the medium of song and dance (and pyrotechnics).

and "Sitting Near Larry", a weekly TV programme where a bloke called Larry sits down somewhere, and then semi-famous people come and sit near him and perform things. Larry has never heard of any of them, so gives them well-meaning but slightly patronising advice. Larry is just off-screen in the image shown above.

[-] Vahr@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

If "Sitting Near Larry" was a genuine and honest show, I'd watch the hell out of it.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Someone needs to make you incharge of a TV network

[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago
[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks. That helps. I still have no idea who those Chapel and Sabrina are, but I now know they are supposed singers and that this is about they being similar.

I guess people that don't know Buffy at least could identify one of them as the one in How I Met your Mother or from American Pie movies and the other having a cameo appearence in Big Bang Theory.

I agree you are in a weird position knowing something so old and something so new at the same time 😅

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I'm old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but didn't watch TV back then. I also enjoy some modern pop music but, in the vast majority of cases, have never seen the artists. I'm also terminally bad at faces even if I have seen them (I've had to ask my wife whether a picture of her was her; she took it well).

I did actually recognize Alyson Hanigan, since she has a few distinctive expressions and features, but had no idea of the rest.

All that said to say: thanks for the explanation; me not getting the joke or reference doesn't mean it was a bad one.

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I understood SNL

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago

Explanation is the death of comedy.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If explaining a joke makes it not funny, it was never funny in the first place. It was either just referential or based on shock value.

[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Same. No idea what any of the images are aboot.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

God damn I always forget how hot that redhead is.

[-] li10@feddit.uk 22 points 1 month ago

*bonk*

It’s true tho

*self bonk*

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago

I'm absolutely a simp for Buffy and Willow.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

It is if you’re old enough to know who the pic is actually of, or young enough to know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter actually are?

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Ugh... I'm in that first category. I have no idea who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of "man those people are constantly in the news."

[-] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 9 points 1 month ago

I know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are but I'm not familiar with the original photo. I feel like I should be, though

[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Alyson Hannigan This one time at band camp

[-] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 7 points 1 month ago

Thank you, that would have been bugging me all day

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

Don't stop. I love these layered generational memes.

Like "here's a picture of Skibibi toilet recreating the famous scene in I love Lucy"

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It would have to be the scene with the chocolates right?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I think you need an "and" there where you used an "or", but I guess I'm in neither category.

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