Comment on Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community?

• loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If this is the context, I believe it has nothing to do with gays or twinks.

  Just a sad anime image meant to convey an emotional response, according to Tineye, first seen around 2016, on pages no longer reachable.

  First memetized around 2017, with the following image : même

  Translated labels from left to right : “The new waifu of the season”, “you”, “You’re waifu, to whom you’d vowed eternal love”. At this stage, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: The meme is still aimed at the weeb community that saw it’s birth, and still makes use of the context implyed by the image.

  But to interpret what comes next, you must take into account the rise of “cringe” culture in the early 2020s. Former memes, deemed “cringe”, saw a new birth under several layers of irony to highlight their absurd nature. Here is another meme that underwent the same fate : knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-fine

  This era also saw the appearance of the words “pog”, “poggers” and “pogchamp”, all of which quickly became cringe. The above meme can therefore be interpreted as a pile of cringe meant to be absurd.

  What about burgers? The burger also has a place in meme culture. can I has cheeseburger

  Declaring one’s taste for a trash food or another belongs to another memetic trop, that of appearing relatable and whimsical. Most old memes using this trope appear cringe by today’s standard. The image may be a meta-meme about itself, describing the memer’s transition from pre-cringe to post-cringe culture, from “burgers” to “poggers”, and burying the image macros under countless layers of irony.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That, is not what I expected.

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