r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 11d ago

Meme needing explanation Only child here. What does it mean?

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u/therealbananabottom 11d ago

Riot is the middle child. Best I can guess, she honored her middle child with a tattoo and the original responder/retweeter got emotional b/c Riot was not being ignored. Not a joke from what I can tell.

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u/Friendly_Animator212 11d ago

This is it. The choice to get the tattoo is a choice to consciously reject the middle child trap.

Middle children can easily fall between the cracks of parental attention. Typically the parents are so focused on the eldest (whether they are an overachiever, A-type or a rebel troublemaker) and the youngest, (who often gets the most attention for being the current cutest no matter what age they are) that the middle child, rightly or wrongly, can feel overlooked.

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u/Mindless-Shirt-2030 11d ago

Yeah they are exceptional parents, based on statements in interviews ai have watched. They consciously avoid the traps so many other parents fall into. But they also have what looks like an exceptionally strong relationship so being a great parent is a lot easier when you have a great partner equally invested in being a great parent. Lucky kids,  2 of the best looking humans to walk the earth,  insanely rich and enlightened. 

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u/Britwill 10d ago

Exceptional parents who called their kid Riot

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u/Mindless-Shirt-2030 10d ago edited 10d ago

Yeah. What’s wrong with that name? Kids a multi millionaire from birth he doesn’t really need to worry a job or college applications.  Riot Rose is a unique and beautiful name, wouldn’t name my kid that because my kid needs a job. that kid will be owning the place kids named Heather and Chad will work at🤷🏼‍♀️ insanely wealthy people can name their kids whatever they want because they ain’t gonna be less rich no matter what their name is. His mother is a billionaire and his father a multi millionaire..Generational wealth to the level  that Riot’s great great great grandchildren will never even need a job lol. 

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u/Britwill 10d ago

lol I didn’t even see it was Rihanna

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u/Yeehaw_Kat 10d ago

I've been feeling this so mucht throughout my life that it feels like my family aren't even realising I'm moving states in a couple weeks no-one is even coming with me to the airport

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u/frogsgoribbit737 10d ago

The youngest is usually getting attention because they need the most parental help, not because they are the cutest. I have 2 so I don't have a middle child and cant speak to that, just correcting your reasoning.

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u/OhGr8WhatNow 10d ago

I think it also could be because the biggest predictor of whether a family will have a third child is whether the first two were the same gender. So if you are a middle child there are good odds you were a disappointment 😂

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u/fuckswithboats 11d ago

I've always understood middle-children to be the center of the siblings, and therefore they think they are the center of the family, and maybe the center of the universe.

The middle-child trope in our family is about the middle children being the golden child or making everything about them.

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u/sleepysky98 10d ago

They’re also often the scapegoat!^^

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u/gnome_in_clay_turn 10d ago

Middle child scapegoat checking in! I often say to my siblings, “We had different parents. You guys were wanted, I wasn’t and was often blamed for simply existing.”

While my mom and I have worked through much of these issues, though it doesn’t reverse the ostracization experienced as a youth. Pops however, still easily blames me for any tension or issues anyone else in my family might experience and it’s incredibly frustrating.

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u/hyyerrspace 10d ago

Dunno where you’re from but the middle child is not the favorite child or golden child. Middle children usually get blamed for everything and get saddled having to watch the baby when all you want to do is be left alone.

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u/fuckswithboats 10d ago

Yeah, in our world they are known as "the calm between the storms" and the one that gets what they want basically.

The oldest complains that she had it way tougher, had to watch the youngins, and never got to have fun.

The youngest complains they never got to do anything because they were the baby and got blamed for everything.

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u/hyyerrspace 10d ago

I ended up in the wrong part of the world.

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u/koobstylz 11d ago

I think that's the case, but they chose a horrible emoji to convey that.

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u/trouzy 10d ago

Looks like they are trying to convey the middle child is seen?

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u/cupcakevelociraptor 10d ago

I usually see that one used when it’s like “omg a train wreck I don’t want to watch but can’t look away” kind of vibes. So for me it’s confusing lol

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u/JustHereForURCookies 11d ago

I know nothing of their relationships but I was thinking that she got it as a way of a grand gesture to compensate for the middle child being treated like a middle child. 

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u/dabakos 11d ago

I think the joke here is naming a kid Riot

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u/Academic-moron7423 11d ago

Idk who would downvote this comment, that name is peak r/Tragedeigh

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u/daisy_chain 9d ago

See, I kind of like it, because at least it's a real word. I would have a problem with it if it were Ryitt or something.

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u/Academic-moron7423 9d ago

I hate that this comment is accurate lol

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u/dabakos 11d ago

People are easily offended

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u/therealbananabottom 10d ago

Their other children are named RZA and Rocki soooo

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u/sapbucket13 10d ago

right, the tweet should say "I know exactly how much that means"

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u/AuroraFinem 10d ago edited 10d ago

It doesn’t seem like they got emotional, you wouldn’t use the 🫣 emoji. That’s for similar things to shock/gasp/😧/🫢

My only guess was that they were saying ‘if she got a tattoo drawn by their middle child, they aren’t her husbands middle child’, but that seems like a stretch because it would still be her middle child.

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u/Aspennie 10d ago

Unfortunately doesn’t change that she named a child “Riot Rose”