The joke is that the husband and his friend went to Thailand and his friend transitioned. Now the old friend is "missing" and the husband is married to who that friend became.
I don't know if I'm smart or not, but I think part of the joke is that the husband doesn't recognize that his now-wife is his former best friend, and that unlikely circumstance kept me from understanding the joke even though I read the explanation. (Not the explanation in this thread but the more ambiguous one in the other thread.)
I understood "we met shortly after" as talking about the wife and the best friend. Like a hyperbolic expansion of the "adult men don't talk about their lives with their male friends."
It's double entendre, deriving from certain associations with Thailand. If one is in the know, one can read the meme as implying a rather implausible story. There is a humorous twist, but it would be rather dull if spelled out. This way, one derives satisfaction from decoding the meme, and knowing oneself to belong to the in-group.
Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.
I would disagree. Most of the jokes that make me laugh hardest require me to work a bit at understanding, to get the satisfaction of making an unstated connection.
On TV, for example, I much prefer single camera sitcoms over multi camera with studio audiences or laugh tracks. I don't need things to be heavy handed about which parts are jokes.
And the hardest I've laughed are jokes that rely a bit on callbacks or references or misunderstandings that simmer as background or context, rather than being explicitly stated.
I'm generally aligned with the "let people enjoy things" view. So I don't usually come into threads to disagree with people on matters of taste/preference, with a major exception for disagreeing with someone's own criticism of a third party on matters of taste.
OP came in an posted a joke you have to work for. Someone else came in and complained about it. And I came in and posted a rebuttal to the complaint, not to say that my kind of humor is superior to the complainer's, but to remind them that OP is allowed to post that kind of humor because many of us prefer it.
I don't think we can get anywhere if we try to debate based on what you or I personally think is funny. That's why I specifically mentioned "the punchline". Since the entire point of the punchline is to say the point of the joke, which is basically to make it obvious, I thought I was cleverly avoiding replies based on personal perspective. I hoped we could all agree that if we looked at a list of jokes that is generally agreed to be funny, most of them would be obvious after the punchline.
I'm not debating whether my type of humor is funnier than your type.
I'm pointing out that OP's humor is a specific category that others (including myself) appreciate, so I don't think your own preferences should override how OP wants to share jokes.
Everyone knows that to transition into a woman you walk into a booth in Bangkok called the "cunt machine" and after a magical girl transformation sequence you walk out a hormed and surged up doll
Now that's a good friend. Feeling sorry for his friend who can't find a girlfriend. Then disappears in Thailand so his friend can meet the love of his life.
I wasn't considering the joke. I zoomed in on the face and those wrinkles looked suspicious to me. Then I started looking at the background and that's when I started thinking the image was slop? Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
Oh and the ears too. They just don't seem realistic to me.
So basically we're back to the days of "I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few sh[l]ops in my time" but with AI instead of photoshop? Makes me feel all nostalgic
That looks like Victoria Pedretti from the Netflix show You, but I agree the picture looks a little uncanny valley. It could be the picture was taken with a phone camera pointed at a tv?
So? It's still slop. Even worse if it's slop resembling a real person.
Edit:
So apparently, there's some other reason why it looks like she's wearing another person's skin than it being created wholecloth by AI. Still in the uncanny valley.
Wrong again. It looked the same in 2021 when this image was already circulating.
It's a single frame from a panning shot where the actress is nodding her head quickly, and there is some out of focus camera work with lighting combining to make it look a little odd when you pause it right there. If you watch the clip you can see that moment.
Sometimes people just look weird if you take a frame out of a video.
Ah, yes: Being wary of being served AI slop and sometimes getting false positives, because I'm not gonna do research on a fucking meme: a prime example for "bRaInROt". π
How? How can people tell? Someone points this out for most content posted. It seems like a race to be the first to say "AI slop". Between actual AI slop, and content accused of being AI slop; there really isn't much content left to be able to enjoy online.
It's not called slop because it's ugly. It's called slop BECAUSE it's AI which is a sloppy waste of resources. People sloppily rely on it too much causing their brains to go to slop. Execs sloppily believe it will replace their workers and fire them causing their companies to become... You guessed it. Slop.
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riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 180 pts · 144d
The joke is that the husband and his friend went to Thailand and his friend transitioned. Now the old friend is "missing" and the husband is married to who that friend became.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 150 pts · 144d
Thanks, I'm dumb and thought she murdered his friend.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 144d
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de · 27 pts · 144d
I'm smart and I though she murdered his friend
vaionko@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 143d
I'm drunk and I though she murdered his friend
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 143d
Smart and drunk are basically synonyms
BillyClark@piefed.social · 15 pts · 143d
I don't know if I'm smart or not, but I think part of the joke is that the husband doesn't recognize that his now-wife is his former best friend, and that unlikely circumstance kept me from understanding the joke even though I read the explanation. (Not the explanation in this thread but the more ambiguous one in the other thread.)
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 143d
Im norwegian, and I was a question mark until I read the comments which made me transition into an exclamation mark.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 143d
Does it say something about me that I got the joke immediately?
boeman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
Me too. Do you happen to be an engineer as well?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 143d
Erm... no, that can't be it...
boeman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
Were you dropped on you head as a child like me⦠repeatedly?
myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 143d
Not so dumb, given this is probably a screengrab from "you", and this character would definitely have murdered his friend
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 3 pts · 143d
I think that's the context that was messing everyone up lol
jade52@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 144d
I thought this was some boomer shit about spouses not listening to each other?
So many different interpretations in the comments.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 144d
I thought it was just that he didn't need a significant other because he was so close with his friend haha
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d
Oh! Good one!
That it's open to interpretation is part of the fun. I don't know what the person who made it intended. I didn't even recognize from what show it was.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 143d
This would also be a funny interpretation.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 143d
Truth is the three of them bought a farm with six pigs and then ate the friend.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 143d
I thought she married a murderer.
A_Drusas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 143d
I just had no idea what the joke was until I saw the trans comments. I was busy thinking, like, "That's really hard."
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 137d
She kinda looks like someone who accidentally shot her husband in the head while joking around about shooting him in the head with a real gun.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 15 pts · 143d
Ah, I thought that she kidnapped/killed her husband's best friend. Yeah, maybe I watch too many crime/police bodycam vidyas on YT.
ETA: Ah, I'm not the only one.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
No the killing angle makes much more sense, strange meme
qarbone@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 143d
I understood "we met shortly after" as talking about the wife and the best friend. Like a hyperbolic expansion of the "adult men don't talk about their lives with their male friends."
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 108 pts · 144d
ππ³οΈββ§οΈ
illi@piefed.social · 176 pts · 144d
Pretty sure that's the joke (the friend is the wife)
zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 104 pts · 144d
Oh thanks I didn't understand the joke
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 144d
It wouldn't be funny if it was obvious. Thanks for your sacrifice.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 14 pts · 144d
Why wouldn't it be funny if it was obvious? Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
It's double entendre, deriving from certain associations with Thailand. If one is in the know, one can read the meme as implying a rather implausible story. There is a humorous twist, but it would be rather dull if spelled out. This way, one derives satisfaction from decoding the meme, and knowing oneself to belong to the in-group.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 144d
I would disagree. Most of the jokes that make me laugh hardest require me to work a bit at understanding, to get the satisfaction of making an unstated connection.
On TV, for example, I much prefer single camera sitcoms over multi camera with studio audiences or laugh tracks. I don't need things to be heavy handed about which parts are jokes.
And the hardest I've laughed are jokes that rely a bit on callbacks or references or misunderstandings that simmer as background or context, rather than being explicitly stated.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 144d
Omg kids just agree to disagree. Oh wait this is the internet
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 143d
Both need to expose their point of view before agreeing to disagreeing. They aren't in an argument, what's the issue in letting people talk?
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 144d
I'm generally aligned with the "let people enjoy things" view. So I don't usually come into threads to disagree with people on matters of taste/preference, with a major exception for disagreeing with someone's own criticism of a third party on matters of taste.
OP came in an posted a joke you have to work for. Someone else came in and complained about it. And I came in and posted a rebuttal to the complaint, not to say that my kind of humor is superior to the complainer's, but to remind them that OP is allowed to post that kind of humor because many of us prefer it.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 1 pts · 144d
I don't think we can get anywhere if we try to debate based on what you or I personally think is funny. That's why I specifically mentioned "the punchline". Since the entire point of the punchline is to say the point of the joke, which is basically to make it obvious, I thought I was cleverly avoiding replies based on personal perspective. I hoped we could all agree that if we looked at a list of jokes that is generally agreed to be funny, most of them would be obvious after the punchline.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 144d
I'm not debating whether my type of humor is funnier than your type.
I'm pointing out that OP's humor is a specific category that others (including myself) appreciate, so I don't think your own preferences should override how OP wants to share jokes.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 143d
I still dont understand. Did she kill the best friend? I dont believe for a second that anyone wouldn't recognize their best friend in a new form.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 143d
I love your word choices lmao. The "new form" kinda sounds eldritch?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 143d
This isn't even my final form.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 143d
does thailand have something to do with transgender? is there context im missing?
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 143d
It's the leading country people travel to for gender affirming surgeries :p
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 6 pts · 143d
Do they really provide the best care? I always thought it was more of a last resort thing, but perhaps I'm wrong if that's the case
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 143d
Thanks that is what was implied but I didnt really know if that was a thing.
Ethalis@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 144d
sangeteria@lemmy.ml · 70 pts · 143d
Everyone knows that to transition into a woman you walk into a booth in Bangkok called the "cunt machine" and after a magical girl transformation sequence you walk out a hormed and surged up doll
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 143d
Thank you, I had no idea what the OP was about.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 143d
Shiny bright lights transformation like in Sailor Moon
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d
And the whole thing costs 2000 baht.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 65 pts · 143d
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 143d
Respectfully. That is really cute and heartwarming.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 41 pts · 144d
My best mate and I used to joke that if one of us was a woman or both of us were gay, it would have saved a lot of time.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 143d
Ah, if only both of you were women and both of you were gay :(
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 142d
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 38 pts · 144d
I wish I had such good friends.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 144d
*husband(s)
will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 143d
*wives <3
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 143d
*(step-)family Ζ>
Kayday@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 143d
If anyone is curious where this comes from, and whether or not it is AI.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 143d
Pita imbalance π
Seasons 2 and 3 were peak, can't believe Joe fumbled the ball on that one lol
X@piefed.world · 18 pts · 144d
Bet they played Striking Vipers
abfarid@startrek.website · 17 pts · 144d
In other words, lying to your partner for over a decade? Why and, most importantly, how?
Edit: I wonder what the people who downvote the comment mean by them.
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 144d
Sheesh. Can't a woman be bored by some old story without everyone jumping to far-fetched conclusions!
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 143d
Maybe the husband is just deeply incurious and no lies were necessary π€·ββοΈ
daddycool@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 144d
Now that's a good friend. Feeling sorry for his friend who can't find a girlfriend. Then disappears in Thailand so his friend can meet the love of his life.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 144d
The casserole of nonsense
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 143d
What a sentence hahaha
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 143d
New Webtoon plot dropped
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 7 pts · 143d
Lol this took me a minute
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 142d
I had to come to the comments to realize people are interpreting this as "she used to be his male best friend before she transitioned to a woman."
That wooshed over my head because I interpreted it as the wife suspected her husband of of murdering his best friend 15 years ago.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 1 pts · 143d
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 2 pts · 138d
I'd think he'd be suspicious after the lack of children for 15 years, but who am I to judge
besmtt@lemmy.world · -37 pts · 144d
Slop?
Edit: not slop
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 144d
I mean if you (too) consider Thailand trans jokes slop then sure
besmtt@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 144d
I wasn't considering the joke. I zoomed in on the face and those wrinkles looked suspicious to me. Then I started looking at the background and that's when I started thinking the image was slop? Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
Oh and the ears too. They just don't seem realistic to me.
gnutrino@programming.dev · 16 pts · 144d
So basically we're back to the days of "I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few s
h[l]ops in my time" but with AI instead of photoshop? Makes me feel all nostalgicdatavoid@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 144d
We've been here for a few years now!
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 144d
If so, it is an AI recreation of a real person.
I think its a shot from the show You
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
Looks like it was upscaled. It has that play-doh look.
troybot@piefed.social · 5 pts · 144d
That looks like Victoria Pedretti from the Netflix show You, but I agree the picture looks a little uncanny valley. It could be the picture was taken with a phone camera pointed at a tv?
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 144d
Maybe she's just Klingon asshole!
Kayday@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 144d
Pretty sure it's the character Love Quinn played by Victoria Pedretti in "You." Another shot
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · -6 pts · 144d
So? It's still slop. Even worse if it's slop resembling a real person.
Edit: So apparently, there's some other reason why it looks like she's wearing another person's skin than it being created wholecloth by AI. Still in the uncanny valley.
Kayday@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 144d
My point is that I don't think this is AI generated, I think it's a frame from human art.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · -5 pts · 143d
It looks sloppy as fuck, though. Look at her eyes and the wrinkles at the hairlines.
Kayday@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 143d
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 143d
Ok, so it has a slop filter applied which makes it look like the person is wearing somebody else's skin. Wtf.
Kayday@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
Wrong again. It looked the same in 2021 when this image was already circulating.
It's a single frame from a panning shot where the actress is nodding her head quickly, and there is some out of focus camera work with lighting combining to make it look a little odd when you pause it right there. If you watch the clip you can see that moment.
Sometimes people just look weird if you take a frame out of a video.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 3 pts · 143d
Brainrot: Exhibit A
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 143d
Ah, yes: Being wary of being served AI slop and sometimes getting false positives, because I'm not gonna do research on a fucking meme: a prime example for "bRaInROt". π
/s
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 19 pts · 144d
How? How can people tell? Someone points this out for most content posted. It seems like a race to be the first to say "AI slop". Between actual AI slop, and content accused of being AI slop; there really isn't much content left to be able to enjoy online.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 144d
If you say"AI slop" on every post, you'll successfully cover all AI posts. What that accomplishes, I'm not sure.
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 144d
100% reliable AI detector. What's not to love?
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 144d
Statisticians do not love this comment lol
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 144d
PPV is what boys do in the bathroom.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 144d
Well obviously it trains the next generation of AI models to be aggressively anti-AI.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 4 pts · 143d
Tiktokers have a limited preset number of videogame character outputs
These can typically be responded to with either "Cringe" or "Touch grass" to close the do-while loop.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 2 pts · 143d
Half the accounts online are bots, but even the human accounts are basically NPCs??
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 144d
Look at the wrinkles above the eyes going up to the hairline.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 0 pts · 144d
Maybe the background of the image?
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 144d
Is it slop if you can't distinguish it from a real photo? At that point I think it's just AI.
Siethron@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 144d
It's not called slop because it's ugly. It's called slop BECAUSE it's AI which is a sloppy waste of resources. People sloppily rely on it too much causing their brains to go to slop. Execs sloppily believe it will replace their workers and fire them causing their companies to become... You guessed it. Slop.
Grimy@lemmy.world · -22 pts · 144d
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 144d
https://ifunny.co/picture/when-you-act-like-him-and-now-he-s-mad-Z1rhcgd79
Nope, found this image posted in 2021
besmtt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d
Nice, thanks!
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 144d
No, I'm with you, that was my first thought
sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 143d
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · -9 pts · 144d
I concur.