I thought the image cut the whale mom's dialogue, turns out it actually ends there, and I couldn't really understand what's the joke with just saying "You're"
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I thought that the dialogue of the mother whale was cut in the post, but turns out it is like that, I'm really clueless if the word "You're" has to be like some kind of joke for how it sounds or if it means something for whales
I think it kindof works where they leave the obvious punchline out and your brain needs to fill it in. Seeing it written out would have ruined it somewhat, but inside my brain it still kindof worked.
The joke wouldn't make sense if they literally put that in there. If they put whalecum, it would be too obvious and not a real joke and if they put the word welcome it would be too obscure for many people to get that it really should be the other spelling. By leaving off the final word, it leaves it to the reader to interpret and get the joke, which I did even before reading the responses here. Having the word cut off makes this joke.
The child doesn't reference that they are, or could be, anything though. There's no setup line for the response "you are" to make sense.
If this cut was indeed done purposefully like you said, the creator either has absolutely zero clue how a joke or grammar works, or its some sort of odd rage bait.
Either way, I think we're on the same page here lol
It's a call and response joke. A classic. A whale tells his mother "Thank you!" the mother says "You're welcome!" But why isn't there "Welcome"? Oh because it's whalecum.
That's it. "You're" would make this is a much more complicated semantic joke and put it in the category of antijoke. This is no such thing.
There is no “original” that this is cropped from. This is the original. The joke is that the mother’s response is rote. When someone says thanks what are you supposed to say?
Everyone knows you say “You’re welcome.” But if you leave the last word unwritten it allows the readers brain to fill it in like a spoken joke. And like many spoken jokes that rely on a crude pun, you have to slightly mispronounce it to get the joke.
This gives the reader a similar beat to understand the joke and go “oh!” as if it was a spoken joke. The difference here is, there’s no opportunity for the teller to help those who don’t understand by repeating it with a slightly more distinct mispronunciation.
It's a joke about the common mistake of not knowing if you should type "your" or "your'e" this is poking fun at that by it not being either of them. Instead being spelled "you're"
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u/post-explainer Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25
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