The joke is it’s “rags to riches” because she went from driving her mom’s Porsche (a luxury sports car brand) to having her own special ordered Porsche. If they’ve got a Porsche the only rags they’ve seen are the ones they use so they don’t have to touch poor people
I appreciate it, but you re-explained the parts that I did understand. Who is this Jennie? Why does their parent have a porche? Who’s the person commenting (in the event that it matters vs just some random internet person)./
Since this seems to be about a singer (not that I knew, it’s in the comments), I guess they refer to before their first album release or something like that.
Honestly, it doesn’t really matter, the joke works without knowing who it is. But it looks like this was the singer “Jennie” from a Korean Girl Group called Blackpink. A lot of these groups will swap out members to keep the fame and fans of the group but allow talent to move on/retire, looks like Jennie is a new member and she’s doing so well because she was able to order her own Porsche. Yay for Jennie pulling herself up by her gold inlaid bootstraps.
I was curious about the family connection. Was the mother already rich/famous? It implies the subject didn’t buy her mom the first car, so I assume so. The wikipedia linked didn’t have anything for a ctrl+f on ‘mother’
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The joke is it’s “rags to riches” because she went from driving her mom’s Porsche (a luxury sports car brand) to having her own special ordered Porsche. If they’ve got a Porsche the only rags they’ve seen are the ones they use so they don’t have to touch poor people
farmgineer@nord.pub 2 months ago
I appreciate it, but you re-explained the parts that I did understand. Who is this Jennie? Why does their parent have a porche? Who’s the person commenting (in the event that it matters vs just some random internet person)./
la508@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And what the fuck is “predebut”
GEEXiES@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Since this seems to be about a singer (not that I knew, it’s in the comments), I guess they refer to before their first album release or something like that.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Jennie is a singer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_(singer)
The person commenting is being sarcastic.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, it doesn’t really matter, the joke works without knowing who it is. But it looks like this was the singer “Jennie” from a Korean Girl Group called Blackpink. A lot of these groups will swap out members to keep the fame and fans of the group but allow talent to move on/retire, looks like Jennie is a new member and she’s doing so well because she was able to order her own Porsche. Yay for Jennie pulling herself up by her gold inlaid bootstraps.
farmgineer@nord.pub 2 months ago
I was curious about the family connection. Was the mother already rich/famous? It implies the subject didn’t buy her mom the first car, so I assume so. The wikipedia linked didn’t have anything for a ctrl+f on ‘mother’