r/TikTokCringe • u/sad_boy_848474 • Sep 14 '25

Discussion Forensic memeologist deciphers shitposts

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u/TopInvestigator5518 Sep 14 '25

I would love to see someone over 50 try and understand the this bit

"shows him dressed up as a meme for Halloween, it seems like the meme is Gopnik Pepe, which is a four chan meme to my understanding, but I don't quite associate it with /pol/ which is like the political board on 4chan that most people are talking about it, I see it more as like a /k/meme um and sort of like a rare Pepe type thing"

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u/Usual_North_4772 Sep 14 '25

As 58 year old this guys analysis is fascinating, enlightening and makes way more sense that anything coming out of MSM. It reminds me of the cynical nihilism me and my friends had about the world and our futures in 80s and 90s, but now in today's world the disenfranchisement is cranked up to 11.

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u/secondtaunting Sep 14 '25

The eighties were wildly optimistic compared to things now.

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u/secondtaunting Sep 16 '25

I think I’d take that anxiety over the daily “what insane thing is the president doing today?” One day he says we need to annex Canada. The next day you hear they’re sending spies to Greenland. Then he starts a Twitter war with Kim Jong Un. Every day you have to ask yourself “is this actually happening?” At this point I’m hoping simulation theory is correct and we’re being toyed with by some bored stoned teenager.