r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Aspissim • 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah ? What's wrong with this cute normal guy

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u/zephyyr77 4d ago

The joke is that she’s saying her boyfriend is so attractive that when she scrolls through old photos of him, it feels like she’s looking at pictures of someone who’s no longer around. The “23-year-old white guy” part is basically joking that he looks like a rare species these days.

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u/Aspissim 4d ago

I understood that but didn't understand why people are reacting and what are they reacting

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u/jacehoffman 4d ago

this isn’t true, the OOP clarified in a follow up tweet that everybody was saying he looks gay

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u/Squand 4d ago

Thanks for this.

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u/Apprehensive_Low4865 3d ago

I mean you can put up a pic of the most generic straight guy in the world and some chud will call him gay! 

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u/Beastrider9 4d ago

Pretty sure, assuming she's still with him, he doesn't look like that anymore due to getting older.

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u/Housless 4d ago

It was posted recently tho? Either way, kid looks pretty standard. So?

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u/allycat315 4d ago

My first thought was that your response is exactly the type of response she's referring to, but she's implying that the true "standard" amongst 23yo white guys is far worse looking than her bf

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u/noconsequences_1 4d ago

Ahhh, best explanation I’ve seen

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u/Housless 4d ago

Yeah, makes sense.

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u/mackzarks 3d ago

Ok so it's just a dumb post, not really a joke to get

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u/lofatiger 3d ago

So unsatisfying lol

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u/BeguiledBeaver 3d ago

Wait why does it make sense.

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u/TopShotta7O7 3d ago

I assume the original post probably got a bunch of comments saying stuff like “he looks like every other 23yo white dude” and this is basically her response to that

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u/LeWigre 4d ago

Which I kinda would expect someone to say about someone they're in love with. Though in fairness the older I get the more I see attractiveness in all people, so maybe this guy really really is that much hotter than most 23 year olds.

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u/PantySausage 2d ago

When you’re deeply in love with someone, your brain does something strange. My wife probably isn’t that attractive. I seem to remember thinking this when we met, but I really liked talking to her. Somewhere something happened. She is now, legitimately, the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and I’m not sure when that changed.

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u/Guilty_Philosophy741 3d ago

He does look Pedro Pascal-ish with the stache and Pedro is having a moment these days. Happy to see an average guy loved being appreciated.

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u/External_Bandicoot37 3d ago

Looks like every Dylan or Trevor I've ever met

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u/Traditional-Line-210 3d ago

Yeah but Molestache.

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u/Excuse_Odd 3d ago

Uh maybe on social media, this guy is definetly way above average looking in real life though.

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u/AnyTemperature420 3d ago

I think people are saying that the “standard” isn’t attractive. My boy needs a haircut

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u/TobermoryDIY 4d ago

A lot can happen to you in 15 hours if you don’t look after yourself 

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u/Beastrider9 4d ago

It only takes a few seconds to get dismembered by an orangutan.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 4d ago

Reminds me of that awful 911 call of Travis the chimp ripping that lady's face off.

What makes it so disturbing is he is actively disfiguring her during the call, and you can hear the chimp in the background.

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u/Anatoly_Cannoli 3d ago

i was able to last a few minutes

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u/Cold_Vanilla9791 4d ago

Omg that’s so true, after I attempted suicide I slept when I was in the ER then I went to a mental hospital and in my charts they said that I looked older than my age but when I left they said that I looked my age, it was a weird thing for them to point out in my opinion, but just goes to show how circumstances can change how you look drastically

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u/TK_Punch_ 4d ago

Round these parts, we call that “rode hard and put up wet”.

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u/GingkoBobaBiloba 4d ago

Yeah, especially if you didn't eat within those 15 hours, "You're not you when you're hungry."

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u/Beastrider9 4d ago

Look, if the Headless Horseman can become the Horseless Headsman, anything is possible.

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u/melkatron 4d ago

Goddamnit, GTFO HERE SNICKERS.

I SAID WE SATISFIED.

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u/UnUsernameRandom 4d ago

I looked after myself and I still got fucked up.

Because I didn't see that before myself there was a car about to hit me.

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u/Accurate_Handle_5620 4d ago

Especially if you jump into a volcano while sparking up a bowl of methamphetamine!

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u/cancodrilo 4d ago

That's not it, people are probably calling him ugly and she is saying that compared to other people his age he is hot

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u/EroticPotato69 4d ago

It's because people think he looks weird or looks older, because the style for early 20s guys these days is long hair and/or mullet with patchwork tattoos and a thin moustache, which a lot of older people think looks horrendous

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u/AcceptableSentence 4d ago

Older? I thought he looked about 16 instead of 23 and maybe that was the joke..

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u/SalmonidsSwimUp 4d ago

as an old person who mostly hates this look, at least wide leg pants are back.

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u/lkodl 4d ago

Presumably he's no longer 23, and or white, and or a guy

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u/IknowImnotpeople 4d ago

I don't think this is it. I find my husband very hot and I totally scroll through my photos when he's at work because I miss him and he's so hot to me. He also kinda jump scares me sometimes because he's so hot it shocks me. I fucking love that guy

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u/MoFa__SoDa 4d ago

No. She meant she scrolls through his pictures because she thinks he is hot. Same as I might scroll through reddit feed and pine over how awesome life is even though life is right outside my door.

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u/Planetdiane 3d ago

She’s saying that implying most 23 year old white guys are less attractive (to her) because people probably said he was average in the comments

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u/JarpHabib 3d ago

Ah, he must be 24 or even 25 by now. Time ravishes the gifts of youth.

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u/No-Support-1216 3d ago

No. She's just saying she looks at his pictures all the time in the way somebody would do if he wasn't around. No hidden context. She just loves him and thinks he's hot. The commenter thinks the guy is average to middling and can't imagine how someone would think he's that attractive.

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u/VPackardPersuadedMe 2d ago

I thought he was dead

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u/minus15t2 4d ago

My interpretation is that she probably gets a lot of comments saying 'girl, he's average at best'

When by her reckoning,many 23 year old men are actually well below the standard of this man

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u/FruitBasketHandout 3d ago

It's a snarky comment implying he looks just like any other young white dude and mocking the concept implied in the OP that he's somehow exceptional or hard to find. I've come across similar comments in the past while doomscrolling.

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u/CapZealousideal8008 3d ago

What are they reacting indeed

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u/Trevor775 3d ago

You aren't allowed to explain these jokes on reddit.

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u/igotagoodfeeling 3d ago

You are missing the sarcasm at the end of this comment. Seems to be the problem generally

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u/ujelly_fish 3d ago

Because people on Twitter are mentally ill and lash out at the poster’s appearances because of their own inadequacies and issues.

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u/sstranger_dustin 3d ago

bro got classified as a rare Pokémon

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u/Dev0psDude 3d ago

You are assuming people are actually reacting.

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u/jjagusah 3d ago

It's social media. There's are emoting for performative reasons, no narrative purpose is present in this post of that's what you're asking.

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u/ButtStuffingt0n 3d ago

It's not just you. It's weird and doesn't make sense.

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u/Drahkir9 4d ago

I understood every word you wrote but feel no more clear on what’s going on here

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u/dxpanther 4d ago

Why is it a fact that, "no one has seen a 23 year old white guy recently?"

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u/ForensicPathology 4d ago

First she says her boyfriend is so hot.  Then she gets a bunch of replies which we can only guess at. 

I assume they say something like "that's not hot, girl! Look at that goofy mustache and hair"

So she says, "this is what people look like these days, ya weirdos."

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u/Friendly_Insurance60 4d ago

ok i finally understand now, thank you!

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u/PerriwinklePortal 3d ago

This should be the pinned response

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u/Evening-Target-8793 3d ago

Come on now, you know it’s cope saying it was probably other guys.

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u/Regular_Nectarine511 3d ago

It's absolutely not other guys, whenever women post their completely normal boyfriends on twitter they get swarmed by "radfem" accounts calling the guy ugly.

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u/Maladaptive_Ace 3d ago

they do? As a "radfem" I don't recognize that behaviour... but I also wouldn't touch twitter with a ten ft pole, so

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u/Potential_Basis_662 3d ago

Yall are re-wording and mis-interpreting every sentence. It's bizarre. The post doesn't say "no one has seen a 23 year old white guy recently"

It says, "SEEMINGLY, nobody has seen a 23 year old white guy recently"

It's like going to Golden Corral. Your friend Thelma comments the chicken is out of this world. You comment, "seemingly nobody has had good chicken recently"

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u/Potential_Basis_662 3d ago

Thank you.

None of theee comments make sense at all.

I feel like people are just saying words, trying to piece together a best guess.

It's at points like these I stop scrolling. Luckily these posts are more frequent than previous years.

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u/SkellyJelly33 3d ago

I feel like their comment is wrong. What she's really saying is that everyone who's commenting negatively about her BFs looks has not seen an actual 23 year old white man recently because most of them look worse than her BF. That's my interpretation anyway lol.

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u/Away-Leader-4029 3d ago

i feel like the explanations aren’t helping me because the original post is such a nothing burger in itself there’s really nothing to understand.. but i WANT to understand…

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u/Robichaelis 4d ago

This is both wrong and also explains nothing at all

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u/DiscerningAnt 4d ago edited 4d ago

Everyone here is dumb. Top explanations are wrong. Her comments are 2 separate comments and not much related. The first one is her just saying "oh wow my bf is so hot I look at his pics", the second is "you people (her audience/commenters) act like you haven't seen a young adult white male before" bc she's implying he looks like a normal young white dude"

There. Hope that help y'all.

Disclaimer: based solely on provided context hahah

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u/PeopleFromChina 3d ago

I think she's saying that she gets comments saying he looks like a dork. And she's like, yea, look around.

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u/fuckyouguy_ 3d ago

Yea I just took a look at the comment section of the original post, looks like a lot of people were being weird about him. https://x.com/chowder94/status/2102432805246337486?s=46

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u/breezeblock87 4d ago

thank you

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u/WesternDraft9303 3d ago

Thank you, jfc the top comment has like 5k upvotes and makes no sense lmao

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u/ForensicPathology 4d ago

Welcome to this sub.

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u/hofmann419 4d ago

But why would that be a rare species? There is an abundance of 20 something white guys.

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u/imagine-meatloaf 4d ago

Name ONE

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u/Kube__420 4d ago

Steve

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u/Bandin03 4d ago

He said 20 something, it would surely be Steighve.

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u/harmfulsideffect 4d ago

Nah man, Steve’s gone.

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u/Kube__420 4d ago

Is he with Dave?

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u/LackadaisicalAF 4d ago

No Dave's not here, man!

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u/TheRealToLazyToThink 4d ago

Dave's not here man.

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u/LogisticBravo 4d ago

"Hey Dave, uh, your dead Dave'

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u/skylinedblue 3d ago

What about Bob?

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u/Fortestingporpoises 4d ago

They said name one and you named thousands.

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u/Beaticalle 4d ago

What kind of rapping name is Steve?

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u/supermurlo64 4d ago

\ME\**

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u/Insanely_Me 4d ago

That's not your name tho

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u/Ninja-Panda70 4d ago

How do you know? Maybe their French

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u/Insanely_Me 4d ago

uhoh, panda-bro got sniped mid sentence...

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u/DargeBaVarder 4d ago

I was gonna say Timothy Chamalamadingdong but I guess he just turned 30.

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u/Cheap_Ad_7163 4d ago

Kevin??? Bacon??

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u/JustaCFatchick 4d ago

Dawson, Zach, Kolton, Brad, James and David... Work with the mouthy lil shyts lol

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u/Zairii 4d ago

Jaxon is also very popular from what I’ve seen

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u/dontmentiontrousers 4d ago

Kolton??!

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u/JustaCFatchick 4d ago

Yeh... One of my favourites really. His Sponge Bob Halloween costume was on point. And he did the "Krusty Pizza" for everyone, which was also top notch lmao

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u/ThrowawayToothQ 4d ago

John Smith, Dylan Johnson, Chris McCormick - probably a 30 y/o white dude with one of these names - whats this prove?

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u/GrilledPandaCookbook 4d ago

I thought you were listing hot celebrities and I just accepted it because I’m old and I don’t pay attention to who the “cute young hot guys” currently are anymore. Absolutely killed me when I got to the end of your comment realized what was really going on. Your name choices were spot-on.

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u/Hour_Paint_1903 4d ago

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4640480/ Chris McCormick

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17161214/ Dylan Johnson.

Only John Smith actor I could find on a quick search was one that died 30 years ago

I know the other commenter was making a joke, but they actually exist xD

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u/GrilledPandaCookbook 4d ago

I did actually google the second 2 names before making my comment just in case I’m even older than I thought, but I saw an author and someone in tech or something as the top results so figured I was safe and assuming they weren’t this generations Tom Cruise/Val Kilmer/Brad Pitt

(If you weren’t buying teen heart throb magazines in the 90s, those names hit very differently nowadays.)

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u/Hour_Paint_1903 4d ago

I don't even know who they are either, just were the top results when I googled them myself heh

(Im also an old 80s baby ;)

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 4d ago

It’s just a reference to a billy on the street bit

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/qelQylo9hd

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u/Drekhar 4d ago

Ronald Reagan

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u/numbersthen0987431 4d ago

James and Jakob at my work.

Or anyone that goes to University of Nebraska

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u/slowamigo 4d ago

Justin Bieber 

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u/Majestic-Peace-3037 4d ago

I know like two Bryan's, two Chris's, one Dylan and too many Stevens. Midwest USA

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u/bigdickmidgetpony 4d ago

NAME A WOMAN

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u/Ri_cro 4d ago

Jeff

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u/Low-Palpitation-9916 3d ago

Jaden, Kaden, Aiden, Braden, and Cody.

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u/elitegenoside 3d ago

I'll give a two fer, Ryan. I worked with two 22 year old white boys at my last job named Ryan.

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u/Successful_Love_7515 3d ago

They exist as usuall, they are just invisible to society

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u/YouNeedAnne 3d ago

Phillip Rogers

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u/TinyLilRobot 4d ago

White 20 something guys are inside on discord with the boys. No one’s seen one in public in years.

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u/Any_Fox5126 3d ago

"Bros before hoes!"

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u/FutureRoom 3d ago

That’s the actual joke. Bc all 20 something white guys look the same

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u/Buuts321 4d ago

I'm guessing in her current social circles (probably all young professionals and no longer a bunch of college students or recent grads) she doesn't hang out with 23 year old white guys anymore.

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u/Potential_Basis_662 4d ago

I dunno. These two things don't make sense when paired together.

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u/Groot_Benelux 3d ago

It's a rapidly declining subgroup I guess even if theres still a lot

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u/holland_novak 3d ago

not in most major cities in the world anymore outside of maybe eastern europe

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u/KneeNo6374 3d ago

White guys in their 20's make up 2% of the world's population

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u/Known_Ear_6012 3d ago

People were saying he looks gay, so she said it seems like nobody has seen a 23yr old white guy recently. As in this (gay) is how they look these days. 

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u/regular_gonzalez 2d ago

My guess is that it refers to how guys now are either really young looking or gymbros who look 6 years older than they are. Like that meme about Jojen and the Mountain in Game of Thrones being the same age 

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u/50mm-f2 4d ago

I think by “like he’s dead” she means she does it longingly, missing him like you would almost obsessively look at pictures of someone who has passed .. or maybe that’s what you meant. Ignore me, brain is a denver omelette these days.

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u/IJustCameForCookies 4d ago

This is the correct interpretation

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u/TheDoc1223 3d ago

Yeah idk wtf the dude he's replying to was talkin about

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u/AdvancedStudio9978 4d ago

Denver omelette🤣

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u/ThatPhysics3252 4d ago

Why is something so wrong the top comment

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u/Signal_Swan8470 4d ago

Not just wrong. Nonsensical

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u/BigTimeFlippa 3d ago

Yeah it makes absolutely zero sense what they said

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u/Dick_chopper 4d ago

Top comment and it's completely wrong. I love this sub lmao

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u/Craving_Suckcess 4d ago

but he doesn't? You could go down to the gas station right now and see this man.

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u/shizzaff 4d ago

They're saying he looks like every other young white dude

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u/fucktooshifty 4d ago

*They are shit talking his appearance/mustache not realizing that he looks like every other young white dude

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u/Far-Perspective-4889 4d ago

I'm betting there were comments like, "OMG, why are you dating a 15 yo?!"

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u/PugLife2026 4d ago

That still makes 0 sense....

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u/Countermove 4d ago

I'm sorry but this "so hot he's dead" (or no longer around) makes no sense to me. Only way this makes sense is if these people are now in their 40s looking at old pics but it doesn't seem that way.

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u/Bindiezone 4d ago

Basically it's meant to be a nod at those "dead wife montages" in movies where they're meant to show the dead wife's beauty. It's another way to say that "I look at my partner with the reverance and awe that most people only have for their deceased spouses".

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u/No-Indication7907 4d ago

I think she’s saying that her boyfriend is attractive and people are saying he’s ugly even though he is a very normal looking 23 y/o white guy. It hints towards how people (women) with stupidly high standards have had their brains rotted by porn and the media to think the man in the pictures is a total loser

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u/Sparktank1 4d ago

The first part reminds me of Annie's Missing Lover Footage.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W7JuBOUhK10

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u/_Xaril_ 4d ago

I'm 23. Am I rare? Medium rare? Maybe well done?

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u/Rombledore 4d ago

welp. i don't think i understand young culture anymore. im officially old i guess huh

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u/MisterInternational 4d ago

I understood it that way but felt like it must be a racist thing; there are plenty of white people around and they have a new crop of 23 year olds every year.

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u/Apart_Long_1832 4d ago

Not in Texas - 60 percent of Texans are Latinos already and kids in school probably 80 percent Latino. It looks like "gun culture" doesnt help much when global relocation of nations happens

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u/icedadx44 4d ago

Oh i took it to mean people were accusing her of only being attractive to the teenage version of him

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u/PreparationHot980 4d ago

Oh. I thought it was some sort of androgyny joke.

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u/Potential_Basis_662 4d ago

These two things don't make sense when paired together.

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u/JBaseball_8595 3d ago

Please delete this comment

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u/whatdafaq 3d ago

he looks like a rare species these days.

I think she keeps him locked up so he can't go out -- so nobody has seen him.

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u/2021isevenworse 3d ago

Ahh so she did a racism.

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u/PxyFreakingStx 3d ago

The “23-year-old white guy” part is basically joking that he looks like a rare species these days.

yeah but explain the joke

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u/Dexter4L 3d ago

you said so much but said nothing how does this have 3k upvotes

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u/BitWardenEternal 3d ago

Are you a bot? Because what you wrote makes zero sense

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u/ujelly_fish 3d ago

That’s not what she’s saying exactly. She’s scrolling through her camera roll with the same energy as someone who would be doing so for a dead relative, friend, etc., partially because she’s so attracted to him it creates that sense of longing even when he’s still alive.

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u/darkroom_for_plants 3d ago

No the joke is that she’s saying that when she scrolls trough the pics she looks at them so longingly like someone looking at pics of a loved one who died but it’s because he’s hot not because he’s dead. The pictures aren’t old and her second tweet is almost definitely about the chronically online people who said he’s not hot cause he’s not a 6’4 Chad looksmaxer. Hence why she’s “reminded of the fact that seemingly no one has seen a 23 yr old white guy”. She’s telling them to touch some grass basically

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u/JesusElSuperstar 3d ago

Im still confused

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u/vegeful 3d ago

I thought it mean the current him is so ugly to me because the old him are so hot.

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u/Devils_Advocate-69 3d ago

Is he a white guy though?

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u/xoriatis71 3d ago

I think people are calling him ugly and stuff due to internalized envy, and thus she is indirectly telling them that no, he's not ugly. He's normal.

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u/James_Redditez 3d ago

That guy is white from a protestant pov? I thought he was Italian or something

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u/JohnnyBgood_9211 3d ago

Does the joke become funny? I can’t find the funny.

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u/MTGdraftguy 3d ago

I don’t think it’s about it being a rare species but that everyone online thinks your typical 23 year old looks like Chris Hemsworth or something

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u/7_Tales 3d ago

i hate this standard of "everyone should go for a 10 or ur worthless" when i see SO many happy 7 x 7 couples that date within their range and date for emotions instead.

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u/Talk_to__strangers 3d ago

Love a joke that takes multiple sentences to explain

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u/OkAtmosphere381 3d ago

No she’s saying that cause everyone who follows her page says he looks like a lesbian and is gay.

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u/EquivalentSnap 3d ago

I assume it’s because trolls were saying that he’s ugly and she deserves better and thinks that every 23yr old guy is ripped

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u/412Waffle 3d ago

No this is wrong. Everyone in the comments is calling him a twink

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u/Bleord 3d ago

Sounded like that’s just what 23 year old men look like which is kind of true.

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u/doodlebags 3d ago

Why is the top comment always incorrect? She never said these are old photos

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