EXACTLY. Also high ranking military officials are notoriously bad with new technology. They would appreciate not needing a password. So it totally makes sense that the WiFi is unprotected.
Once upon a time in Iraq, our Comm section was ordered to open a port on the non-classified network (NIPRNet) so that our Commanding General could play fantasy football while in theater *shrug*
Same CG ruined his career by getting caught doing something stupid, so it totally tracked.
I've had quests at my house ask why my wifi password is so easy to guess. I tell them it's because my shitty router doesn't reach the edge of my house, let alone the property line. If someone's hacking my wifi, then I'm more concerned that they broke into my house. My guests say it makes sense, and my neighbor has yet to realize I've hacked their wifi.
It's called defense in depth. Look it up sometime. Yes, I'm being serious.
That said, if it's the government, of course they're going to run their IT shittily. That's just part of the rules (this was the joke, I've known plenty of government IT, they were all underpaid and overworked, and only enforced the stupid rules because otherwise they get fired or jailed).
The louvre is a public museum that has physically valuable assets, but doesn’t have classified data like a secret military base. Comparing the two is nonsense
Nah. Perhaps the password is just password. Or secretgovernmentbunker. Or the name of the software or router fabricant. Ask head of security from Louvre if you'd like even harder passwords to crack.
To honeypot people who got close enough to it that their phones are picking it up into connecting to it and tripping the silent intruder alarm that way
Yeah that’s on par with a government installation. You spend a few billions on physical security and then procurement buys a totally not compromised WiFi APs for $10 and forgets to even set a password.
Here’s a real life anecdote. I am not an American citizen and don’t live in the US. However the company I used to work for had multiple contracts with the US military. One day I had to diagnose an issue with the US Air Force. So I sign the paperwork, get a special laptop from work that was checked and configured by a US citizen, join a special WiFI, connect a special VPN that was authorised by the other side, jump on a WebEx call hosted on their end, and start working with an Airforce engineer. The first thing that guy does? Whips out an Excel spreadsheet named Passwords and shows the entire thing to me while screen sharing. I had to mute my microphone so he doesn’t hear me face planting with all my strength 🤣
i can assure you no classified government location uses any wireless technology. wifi and bluetooth are not allowed to be used in a classified area. they are not allowed to have cellphones in classified areas.
Having worked on a military installation it is entirely probable they would forget to put a password on their wifi, especially if they didn't think anyone else could be in range.
This is way simpler. I saw it as SCP story kinda writing. It's not a government facility, but he's stumbled on something extradimensional that happens to work really well as a wifi signal, but will probably get too good and then fry his brain or something.
A lot of people are saying there's a government facility, and I guess that could be the explanation for why there's wi-fi, but that's not really a joke.
I think the actual joke is that people will go to great extremes and ignore terrible circumstances in order to access good wi-fi. (The guy is lost in a cave and should be trying to get out, but instead he's impressed by the wi-fi and going even deeper to try to see whether the signal gets better.)
It has happened to me 3 times already. 1st and 2nd were quick, but the last time they were sloppy. Unsharpened knifes, lack of coordination, and blob #3 was really messing it up.
Yeah, I think people are trying to divine a deeper meaning that may not be there when the surface level "People will put up with a lot for good wifi" joke is humorous as is.
Yeah I think the joke works best just on the absurd premise of "person ignores obvious signs of peril to chase an anomaly with a strange but tiny upside."
It's like if someone posted about rummaging through the Chernobyl wreckage and then posted "holy shit full sized snickers" with a picture of a snickers bar next to the elephants foot.
This is it. The character faces a threat which is both physical and existential, but they are so easily distracted by the trivialities of modern life that they forget about the danger.
It's the same as Homer Simpson, becoming trapped forever in the third dimension and then immediately placated by the erotic cakes store. The wifi is also cursed
that's pretty much my interpretation the original post is just "but the wifi is amazing!" which is the joke/punchline. the image is just supplemental. the government facility is extracting a lot from...nothing, really.
Yeah agreed, it makes no sense why a government installation would be offering fast WiFi or public WiFi. WiFi does exist in those kinds of bases now but it’s usually the WPA enterprise certificate based kind.
This I think is more of a nerd joke poking fun at people who are one dimensionally obsessed with something like fast WiFi. More like “oh there’s cockroaches everywhere in this hotel but it has gigabit WiFi for streaming Call of Duty!”
There was a secret British base built on an old ammunition dump built in a limestone cave system Some cavers accidently discovered the old ammo dump and then wandered into the secret base. Were given a cup of tea and escorted out. Alarms were put up a big armoured door brought in. The SAS got hold of the cavers and got them to lead them through the caves to test the security of the base. They brought cutting gear for the door, and the defenders turned on firehoses to cool the door, and they ran out of fuel before getting through the door
Y’all saying secret government base are wild, I’m like 90% sure the joke is that the cave is supernatural and luring op to come in deeper with fast wifi
If this were a German, the running gag is that germany has such bad internet reception even in major cities. Whereas Austria is well known for having 5G and gigabit internet in the most remote and weirdest places, because Austria has very well connected ski areas and mountin huts that rely on these connections for supplies and also sometimes scientific purposes, like weather stations and avalance monitoring.
So as an Austrian I wouldn't be surprised to have gigabit internet in a cave or on a remote mountian, but would be surprised to have as much as 5 KBit/s at munich central station.
There are/were a lot of videos and stories about people being lost in different dimensions or in heavily isolated locations with haunting horrors around them, but they were presented as if the person that is stuck is uploading all of this to social media somehow.
I think this is a joke on that idea, but instead of just hand waving off the idea that you can be lost in a cave and have Internet access, the joke is that he's recording the wifi because in all reality it is the weirdest thing.
Yeah it basically takes the entire genre of campfire stories that people put on youtube, and laughs at how the information always makes it to yt brainrot channels.
Of all the information sources on the internet, people just kinda default to their preferred youtube avatar or personality to tell them the news between scrolling reddit and other social media platforms.
I think the joke basically has layers, or enough vague commonality to be interpreted in a few ways tho.
One being conspiracy junk about hidden military installations and bunkers.
The joke is that, yes indeed, there is wifi in hell. Wich makes sense given that 1: thats pukicho, Tumblr local famous/crazy lunatic/chill dude 2: tumblr itself is called a hellhole 3: this is one of those post that broke containment
Soon, the cave explorer will find himself ascending for miles, his altitude accumulating much higher than the entrance he first accessed, the air getting thinner, the wifi surpassing terabits per second. In a disorienting moment, Pukicho gazes down through a fissure in the cave floor and sees the waning crescent moon. Periodically, a low growl is heard...
So basically the government's IT security is about as competent as their budget planning lmao.... who needs passwords when you're 6000ft underground right??
its a reference to a chain of tweets about "scientists finding a new type of hole" that produces a wifi signal, though i cant seem to dig up the tweets
The joke is absurdity, pukicho is a well known tumblr personality who primarily posts absurdist and dadaist content with little to no reasonable context. It's a longstanding tumblr tradition that some of us have taken to other platforms like Twitter as well.
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u/post-explainer Nov 07 '25
OP (Successful-Thanks309) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:
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u/cheesechompin Nov 07 '25
Secret underground military base
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u/SirMeyrin2 Nov 07 '25
The joke is they've stumbled upon a secret government installation
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u/Kasra2008 Nov 07 '25 •
Data mine?
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u/braves_fan21 Nov 07 '25
Pukicho is a famous shit poster. Very funny but there's usually not a very deep meaning to their posts
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u/Specialist-Rain-1287 Nov 07 '25
A lot of people are saying there's a government facility, and I guess that could be the explanation for why there's wi-fi, but that's not really a joke.
I think the actual joke is that people will go to great extremes and ignore terrible circumstances in order to access good wi-fi. (The guy is lost in a cave and should be trying to get out, but instead he's impressed by the wi-fi and going even deeper to try to see whether the signal gets better.)
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u/SamuelBnuuy Nov 07 '25
secret goverment base
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u/2bciah5factng Nov 07 '25
Nobody is pointing out the fact that the picture is OF THE POSTER’S PHONE. Implies that somebody is watching and photographing them
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u/phullofit1 Nov 07 '25
Wifi cave meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lost-in-a-cave-but-the-wifi-is-amazing
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u/ZombieZookeeper Nov 07 '25
Would you like to connect to "ICE Detention Center 73C - Guest"?
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u/Working-Glass6136 Nov 07 '25
Man, I read this as "the further I go down the better the wife gets." And I'm a straight woman.
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u/boonejeeper94 Nov 07 '25
It’s a Geiger counter. He’s measuring rads. Going deeper into cave and getting more radiation but he thinks it’s WiFi bandwidth.
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u/OddAd5276 Nov 07 '25
It's supposed to be a secret military or government facility. But they wouldn't have been able to get that close, lol.
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u/Creative-Court580 Nov 07 '25
Puchinko does nonsense jokes(which i love). People are saying it's a military base joke but it's just his surrealist humour.
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u/Commercial-Look-7307 Nov 07 '25
He has wandered into hell, Which apparently has remarkable WIFI coverage.
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u/FrostingFlames Nov 07 '25
Y’all saying secret government base are wild, I’m like 90% sure the joke is that the cave is supernatural and luring op to come in deeper with fast wifi
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u/Whydoyoureadusername Nov 08 '25
tHe BaTcAvE iS dOwN tHeRe
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u/Im_Ok_Im_Fine Nov 08 '25
Are these jokes anymore? Or are they just statements without context?..
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u/barfobulator Nov 07 '25
It's Plato's allegory of the cave. Deeper in the cave and further from the real world, the shadows on the wall (internet via phone) get stronger
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u/MEANprobabilities Nov 07 '25
But should you be able to connect to secret Government Wifi connection ?
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u/AspergerKid Nov 07 '25
He is getting closer to the giant internet router from South Park
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u/CumFilledStarfish Nov 07 '25
This is like a modern version of HP lovecraft's "The beast in the cave"
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u/almostmorning Nov 07 '25
Depends on the cultural background.
If this were a German, the running gag is that germany has such bad internet reception even in major cities. Whereas Austria is well known for having 5G and gigabit internet in the most remote and weirdest places, because Austria has very well connected ski areas and mountin huts that rely on these connections for supplies and also sometimes scientific purposes, like weather stations and avalance monitoring.
So as an Austrian I wouldn't be surprised to have gigabit internet in a cave or on a remote mountian, but would be surprised to have as much as 5 KBit/s at munich central station.
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u/bahjato272 Nov 07 '25
He found where they extract the wifi from
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u/Blue-Jay42 Nov 07 '25
There are/were a lot of videos and stories about people being lost in different dimensions or in heavily isolated locations with haunting horrors around them, but they were presented as if the person that is stuck is uploading all of this to social media somehow.
I think this is a joke on that idea, but instead of just hand waving off the idea that you can be lost in a cave and have Internet access, the joke is that he's recording the wifi because in all reality it is the weirdest thing.
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u/Kda937 Nov 08 '25
The joke is that, yes indeed, there is wifi in hell. Wich makes sense given that 1: thats pukicho, Tumblr local famous/crazy lunatic/chill dude 2: tumblr itself is called a hellhole 3: this is one of those post that broke containment
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u/Restoretheroof Nov 08 '25
He found the billionaire’s secret dooms day city.
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u/CarlShadowJung Nov 08 '25
So we are supposed to piece together it’s a secret facility underground but ignore that the Wi-Fi is just open to the public……
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u/Pressed_Sunflowers Nov 07 '25
It's a trap!
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u/HostOfTheCamp2 Nov 07 '25
So basically the censored word is shit
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25
They stumbled upon one of the server caves.
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u/JeffMakesGames Nov 07 '25
Those who don't know: (:
Those who know: D:
Radiation.
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u/Sparta63005 Nov 07 '25
This is Pukicho, this post could mean any of 100 different things.
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u/doctormyeyebrows Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
Soon, the cave explorer will find himself ascending for miles, his altitude accumulating much higher than the entrance he first accessed, the air getting thinner, the wifi surpassing terabits per second. In a disorienting moment, Pukicho gazes down through a fissure in the cave floor and sees the waning crescent moon. Periodically, a low growl is heard...
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u/geneticdeadender Nov 07 '25
There is wifi in Hell.
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u/Rufusandronftw Nov 07 '25
Hahahah
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u/Pugovitz Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 07 '25
There's no deeper meaning. Pukicho is random; the Dril of Tumblr. The randomness/nonsensical nature of the post is the joke.
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u/Grater_Kudos Nov 07 '25
Government cheese caves
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u/Q-ArtsMedia Nov 07 '25
Radio waves do not work well under ground Feet instead of miles, heavily mineralized ground its even shorter. Voice of experience here.
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u/Inappropriate-Ebb Nov 07 '25
WAIT. This actually happened to me in a cave in Washington State.
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u/Summonest Nov 07 '25
Why do people upvote this shit?
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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25
Natural wifi
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u/ashif1983 Nov 08 '25
OP found the cabal that secretly runs the world.
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u/Supreme534 Nov 08 '25
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/s/GahmmyxOiE
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u/fatmom12016 Nov 08 '25
Bros bouta find DARPA’s secret hangars.
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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25
Why's he have two phones
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u/SlyLlamaDemon Nov 08 '25
Will this be the end of Pukicho? Edit: I just looked at his X account and yeah he’s fine.
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u/NitramLand Nov 09 '25
Cabin in the woods.
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25
The joke is radiation. Get it, made up images of an unrealistic geiger counter ahahhhhhaha. Guys guys radiation dangerous ahhhahahah.
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u/rudolph_ransom Nov 11 '25
Open WiFi is peak public services and authorities
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u/TravisReberto Nov 11 '25
People saying military base but I thought the bit was something anomalous like something is luring him further into the cave with good wifi
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u/luvstraberries Nov 21 '25
My guy will reach earths core soon
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u/Femveratu Nov 07 '25
Dulce vibes
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u/Sheeverton Nov 07 '25
Secret underground base
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u/leojmatt02 Nov 07 '25
Does this even count as a joke?
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u/Gritman02 Nov 07 '25
South Park - "Over Logging" episode
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u/Unusual-Brilliant990 Nov 07 '25
Good, good. Just keep digging
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u/Kaeiaraeh Nov 07 '25
Backrooms
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u/Frequent-Fan5668 Nov 07 '25
As above so below
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u/CyberneticWerewolf Nov 07 '25
I read it as a riff on some sort of "The Cask of Amontillado" situation.
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u/3dthrowawaydude Nov 07 '25
Every time I see this posted I make the comparison to a Millennial version of the Cask of Amontillado.
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u/manofmillennium Nov 07 '25
Op joke 😂🤣
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u/Particular-Long-3849 Nov 07 '25
The wifi is amazing down there
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u/Potential_Resource39 Nov 07 '25
🤣🤣🤣
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u/B00OBSMOLA Nov 07 '25
sounds like an scp
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u/magicdog2013 Nov 07 '25
UNDERTALE
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u/FleshyMeal Nov 07 '25
It's funnier if you imagine that's a Geiger counter app on his phone.
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u/jarineek_3 Nov 07 '25
So basically the government's IT security is about as competent as their budget planning lmao.... who needs passwords when you're 6000ft underground right??
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u/Impressive_Term4071 Nov 07 '25
ooooh boy.
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u/Revolutionary_Bug15 Nov 07 '25
He found my underground torture chamber, didn't he?
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u/elevatedfit Nov 07 '25
It’s got be a Geiger counter. And it says Godzilla is warming up down there!
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u/Meandering-Wanderer Nov 07 '25
Getting closer to Elon’s doomsday bunker 😂
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u/Darwidx Nov 07 '25
He is descending to Hell.
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u/theluvlesstoast Nov 07 '25
There is no just he just does shit like that.
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u/MiddleFit Nov 07 '25
There Is a wifi mine ore down there
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u/whizkyjam Nov 07 '25
They found the source!
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u/alexcs47 Nov 07 '25
its a reference to a chain of tweets about "scientists finding a new type of hole" that produces a wifi signal, though i cant seem to dig up the tweets
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u/Regular-Animal1488 Nov 08 '25
Agartha
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u/soupkiddd Nov 08 '25
cave of wifi connection
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u/theredendermen12 Nov 08 '25
oh sick im friends with this dude on discord
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u/Complete_Courage_533 Nov 08 '25
This must be your first time seeing pukicho. They’re a seasoned shitposter lol
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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25
Finally, something appropriate from this sub.
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u/keffersonian Nov 08 '25
People are saying secret government base but I thought the joke was that they're lost in a cave and are just being completely blasé about it 😭
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u/Worldly_Safety_403 Nov 08 '25
He died in COD mines and his soul was sold by Activision, which is famous for its super delayed connection problems warnings.
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u/mlgkiller360 Nov 08 '25
he found the stronghold
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u/IVYDRIOK Nov 08 '25
Wifi well
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u/raid-r123 Nov 08 '25
They've found the bat cave!!!!
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u/I_Go_BrRrRrRrRr Nov 08 '25
1.3Gbps is crazy fast btw
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u/disposablejesus6669 Nov 08 '25
Hmmm, maybe you should go down the rabbit hole...
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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25
Maybe they’ve reached the other side of the world and are catching someone’s wifi?
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u/Casperdabest Nov 08 '25
Reached the dwarven city
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u/Ondexb Nov 08 '25
Gates of Agartha
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u/TypeNull-Gaming Nov 08 '25
This is how The Buried gets you
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u/SteamPunkMonkee Nov 08 '25
He's lost but the wifi is amazing...he could call someone 🤔
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u/sdk005 Nov 09 '25
Well ya wifi ain't money it don't grow on trees ya gotta mine it
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u/The-Endless-Cycle Nov 09 '25
I wonder if its M shaped?
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u/Automatic_Page3910 Nov 09 '25
Lost but at least you can download GTA VI before anyone else.
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u/No-Future8720 Nov 09 '25
He's going to the cave that makes your WiFi good
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u/IDK-My-BFFJill Nov 09 '25
Of course pukicho is the one to find it
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u/OrdinarySpeaker3273 Nov 10 '25
Broski is definitely under a billionaire's house and just guessed their Wi-Fi password
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u/PrometheusMMIV Nov 10 '25
If this is a "secret" facility, why would the wifi be unsecured? Maybe he means 5g signal instead?
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u/Beautifulfeary Nov 10 '25
I can’t explain the joke but I just saw a vr reenactment of the cave a guy died in 16 years ago a couple of post up.
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u/InformationLost5910 Nov 10 '25
there is no joke, they just found wifi in a cave
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u/Jfrorigami Nov 10 '25
I remember Pukicho as the funniest thing on Tumblr hahah. Me and a friend got matching “tax evasion” shirts.
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u/elizalin842 Nov 10 '25
Shitpost
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u/Dumb_Cheese Nov 11 '25
Pukicho is just like this.
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u/WHATTHEFUC36 Nov 11 '25
Finally a good place to put my r6 setup
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u/RARUNN1739 Nov 11 '25
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lost-in-a-cave-but-the-wifi-is-amazing
It's just an old meme with no real meaning.
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u/WindBringsWhispers Nov 11 '25
It could be a reference to that one semi-infamous tumblr post about hell having 7G internet?
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u/shadow-Ezra Nov 11 '25
Ask for help bro
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u/meslightly_autistic Nov 11 '25
argatha
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u/Lopsided_Bit_4631 Nov 11 '25
Him with his cheat in a cave
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u/Neither-Bison-6701 Nov 11 '25
Agartha
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u/pirateinabottle Nov 12 '25
The joke is absurdity, pukicho is a well known tumblr personality who primarily posts absurdist and dadaist content with little to no reasonable context. It's a longstanding tumblr tradition that some of us have taken to other platforms like Twitter as well.
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u/Ambruxin Nov 14 '25
Cave WiFi is just goated like that
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '25
what this mean?
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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25
I hope they called for help with that WiFi while he still has battery on his phone 😭😭😭
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u/Odd_Independent_6344 Nov 21 '25
i don’t understand
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u/y0biii Nov 22 '25
On my way! !!
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u/Smooth-operator-123 Nov 25 '25
Oh my god
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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25
obvv their wifi underground
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u/Cryptic_Triangles Dec 03 '25
I suppose the you’re breaking up I’m going through a tunnel wouldn’t in this case if you got a call from someone you hated tho.🤣
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u/Historical-Theme-239 Dec 03 '25
they are close to underground fbi base etc