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.
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.
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 😅
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.
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."
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geekwithsoul@lemm.ee · 50 pts · 1y
For those confused:
toynbee@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 1y
While grateful for the explanation, I find myself no less confused.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee · 48 pts · 1y
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 · 26 pts · 1y
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 · 20 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
If "Sitting Near Larry" was a genuine and honest show, I'd watch the hell out of it.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Nailed it!
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 1y
Someone needs to make you incharge of a TV network
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
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 · 10 pts · 1y
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 · 8 pts · 1y
I understood SNL
modifier@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 1y
Explanation is the death of comedy.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
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 · 6 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Same. No idea what any of the images are aboot.
Soup@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 1y
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
God damn I always forget how hot that redhead is.
li10@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 1y
*bonk*
It’s true tho
*self bonk*
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 1y
I'm absolutely a simp for Buffy and Willow.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Ugh... I'm in that first category. I have no idea who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are.
stinerman@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y
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."
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
It would have to be the scene with the chocolates right?
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one · 9 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one · 7 pts · 1y
Thank you, that would have been bugging me all day
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
marcos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I think you need an "and" there where you used an "or", but I guess I'm in neither category.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yes