Wouldn’t this meme have been funny weather it was a women in the photo or a conventionally attractive man doing a very saccharine smile?
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Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week agoAm I missing something or are you making fun of this person in your head and assuming that’s what’s going on? I just saw “lady opens box, tiny exploited people inside”.
I’m sure I’m just missing a bit of media or meme context. Can you explain?
espurr@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t understand what you are asking. Can you please explain?
espurr@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
That we are pointing out that the lady in the meme is not conventionally attractive, when we don’t really need to.
Maybe we all feel collectively uncomfortable that we recognise that she is conventionally unattractive which leads to feeling cognitive dissonance, and end up expressing it as concern for her or outrage that she’s being used in a meme? When the crux of the joke may not really be her appearance, but rather the premise, someone peering into a box with a saccharine smile, photographed from an awkward angle inside the box itself.
I think the meme is funny regardless of who is portrayed as the ‘titan’.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thank you for putting in the time to so thoroughly explain what you meant. I agree completely. This me meme would hit the same no matter who it was. And really, if it was a conventionally handsome man, it would likely be more “making fun of his appearance” than it is with this lady. A dude with a chiseled jawline looks way more like a titan physically, and therefore his looks would be more part of the joke.
Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 1 week ago
The characters are from attack on titan, there are multiple scenes where titans ( big creatures with a lot of times very weird facial expressions) look down on the humanss and then proceed killing them. I think this meme references that. I watched some of the show years ago so this would be my interpretation of the meme so yea making fun of the women on the top as the titan creatures look very hideous?
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I just went to check it out. I don’t think she looks anything like a titan, but Amazon sure fits the description of a titan. I still think the interpretation that the meme is making fun of this woman’s looks, is severely reaching, but thank you very much for the explanation.
viertesauge@feddit.org 1 week ago
How is it reaching? The woman is in the position where a titan would be. So all this “meme” says to me is: “look this person looks like a titan”.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because it is an ad that represents Amazon and Amazon acts like a titan? That’s not even her smile. It’s the grimace the ad agency put on her. That’s amazon’s smile.
How does she look like a Titan? Titans don’t have anything resembling her features.