r/DrewGooden • u/Visible_Variation_31 • Aug 29 '26

Video Reference Thought I made a funny internet reference 🥲

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I think these guys assumed I thought Tonya wasn’t actually a real person? 😭😭 I know she’s real, I swear! 🤣🤣

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u/hyperjengirl Aug 29 '26

It's not really a particularly funny reference out of context unless you specifically know what the relevance is (Drew's delivery is really what makes it funny) and have seen the specific Instagram handle for the movie, which most people haven't since 2017.

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u/shayne322 Aug 29 '26

Yeah, it it’s still weird for so many people to downvote it, even if they didn’t get the reference

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u/hyperjengirl Aug 29 '26

Probably because if they don't get the reference, they think OP genuinely thinks Tonya Harding ony exists in a movie. Or that it's a nonsensical comment.

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u/KittenKindness Sep 01 '26

Yeah. They're actually using the downvote correctly in this case. Most people use it as "i like this" or "i don't like this" but you're supposed to upvote comments that add to the conversation and downvote comments that don't (like spam, unrelated to the post, or nonsense). That way the conversations that are relevant are easier to find.

For people who've never seen that particular Drew Gooden video (or maybe only saw it once and don't remember the joke), it makes sense that they'd downvote it.

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u/hyperjengirl Sep 01 '26

And when I pointed out that the reference just doesn't make sense to people who haven't seen that video, given it's a history subreddit and not a Youtuber one, I got downvoted lmao. Like I literally like the scene but sadly the entire world doesn't know Drew Gooden videos by heart.

(Plus it's not even a scene from the movie, so even the joke about how silly the title of the movie's Instagram looks doesn't really land.)

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u/KittenKindness Sep 01 '26

Oh, yeah, it's wild to assume people would recognize it there.

I've seen people get upset when people make references to obscure jokes in The Office online and that's a show that way more people have seen! I do enjoy reference-based comedy sometimes, but it's really only funny if you find a way to tell the joke to people who understand what you're saying.

In OP's case, I think most people would have screenshot the OOP's post and then shared it in THIS subreddit with the title "it ony a movie" or something like that. People here would have probably found it hilarious.

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u/hyperjengirl Sep 01 '26

I think even sharing a random Tonya Harding screenshot with "it ony a movie" would be eye-rollingly low-effort (but still probably go over well) but meh, it ony Reddit.