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This “Nobody: “ meme format is really bugging me

RowdyReverb

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I've been seeing it more since JK Rowling has been viral lately
Examples:



It's a damned double negative! If nobody is silent, then it implies everyone is talking.
And besides that, I keep seeing people use it where it doesn't make sense as just a "oh hey this is so random lol!" prefix
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Ok I feel better now.

Edit: Just to be clear, I get the joke. It's sometimes funny too. I'm just whining about the syntax
 
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Nobody:

RowdyReverb:
RowdyReverb said:
I've been seeing it more since JK Rowling has been viral lately
Examples:



It's a damned double negative! If nobody is silent, then it implies everyone is talking.
And besides that, I keep seeing people use it where it doesn't make sense as just a "oh hey this is so random lol!" prefix
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Ok I feel better now.
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The Artisan

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I'm not really a fan of memes in general, but this one in particular is pretty extra.

Not only that but I've begun to notice that like Facebook is becoming just memes and memes and memes.
 
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InspectaDekka

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Memes and their nature derive from memetic thinking, the idea that 2 conversers understand something completely without the context being present and shared knowledge being important to the joke (I think).

There's no need for some to be grammatically correct based on memetic thinking.
 
nekkid

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Yeah I get the JK Rowling ones, and I've seen plenty of fun "must fill awkward silences" ones (double negative aside).

But that last example is where people don't get it, I think.
 
Jeronimo

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I started seeing this a few days ago, and immediately thought, "Hmm. That doesn't make sense, must be another dumb meme."
 
CarpeDeezNutz

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Yeah I saw this one and it bugged me a little. So nobody else agrees with what is being said by the person quoted?
 

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You're overthinking it, it simply means that nobody is talking about the subject that the other person interjects with.
 
Akira86

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ok

so

nobody said anything
and then
JK Rowling said: Wizards and house elves commonly have sugar daddy relationships, and that's why they live together.


it does have a logic to it.
 
riotous

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The implication is that nobody asked the question being answered; writing out the question is redundant as the answer is in the meme.
 
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RowdyReverb

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Midramble said:
Would you rather it be

Nobody: Anything
Person: Thing

or

Everyone:
Person: Thing

because those suck more. Maybe
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How about
"Not Nobody: "
Then we have a triple negative and it balances out
riotous said:
The implication is that nobody asked the question being answered; writing out the question is redundant as the answer is in the meme.
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I get the joke, and I still think it's funny (when used correctly), it's just an observation I made. It's my fault for investing any thought into memes
 

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Common Knowledge said:
Yeah but the format makes it imply that nobody is not not saying anything. Like, the proper format would be Everbody: ____ and then the single person saying something.
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No, the format is saying that nobody is talking about the subject that the second person interjects.

RowdyReverb said:
But you said right there, "nobody is asking", not "nobody is saying nothing".
This is my point. It's petty and ridiculous, I know, but I just had to say something
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I think you are interpreting the blank as a statement rather than the absence of a statement entirely.
 
Admiral Woofington

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It's just implying that nobody is saying anything or asking, hence the dialogue format, and then JK Rowling bursts in and gives more information because she just fucking has to
 
Common Knowledge

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PogChamp said:
No, the format is saying that nobody is talking about the subject that the second person interjects.



I think you are interpreting the blank as a statement rather than the absence of a statement entirely.
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It's the colon that fucks it up. The way it reads literally is that nobody is being silent about something.

With that said, what riotous said above makes sense, that you're just supposed to imagine the question being asked within that blank.
 
Limit

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Akira86 said:
ok

so

nobody said anything
and then
JK Rowling said: Wizards and house elves commonly have sugar daddy relationships, and that's why they live together.


it does have a logic to it.
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Nobody is silent = Everyone is saying something.


That is what OP is taking umbrage with. It's a valid point.
 

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OP is the sort of person who reads a book where someone says "he ain't never coming back" and just shakes their head.
 

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Thing is, most people use it incorrectly nowadays. How it was born made sense it was funny: it made legit fun of people who repeatedly bring up certain themes, have certain reactions, etc. based on very little input. Eg. the good old "I'm not racist but..." coming from the usual suspects when anybody mentions anything related to minorities. There it makes sense to point out that nobody said a thing, and then this guy goes for his tangent.

The current mainstream use of this meme is just people slapping "Nobody: " on top of regular memes. It adds nothing of value to the humor, it's just an extra piece of redundant content.
 

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I think it's pretty funny when it's not "Nobody:" but a unique group or person and the follow-up is an actual joke, be it an image or whathaveyou

The "Nobody:" ones are pretty phoned in

Edit: I don't think it's really a double negative because it's the same as "nobody says anything" rather than "nobody speaks"
 
ZmillA

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Isn't the point that the "somebody" is saying something super specific out of nowhere, unprovoked.
 
SliceSabre

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I'm fine with it because it gets across that the particular thing the 2nd subject in the meme is doing or saying is something nobody else was asking or talking about but that subject felt the need to do or tell everyone about.
 
Aranjah

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I think the OP may have put into words was was throwing me off about parsing this meme.

If it had been

Everyone:
Person: Thing

then it would have made sense instantly and I'd probably have thought it was funny.
 
Akira86

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Limit said:
Nobody is silent = Everyone is saying something.


That is what OP is taking umbrage with. It's a valid point.
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where does this "nobody is silent" mess come from?
'nobody is talking' makes 500% more sense in English.

"valid" point based on a clumsy/deliberately awkward choice of wording
 
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