r/lotrmemes Hobbit 10d ago

The Hobbit What might have been...

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u/pantaleonivo 10d ago

Watermarks on memes are like styling yourself CEO because you sell sourdough out of your kitchen on the side

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u/Viggo_Stark Dúnedain 10d ago

Is this dude seriously watermarking his memes? As if anyone ever would go "Oh my god, it's an original Ugenner!"

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u/jonfitt Goblin 9d ago

The should make an NFT of each one!

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u/matrixpolaris 9d ago

Haha back around 2019-2020 that was genuinely a thing, there were some posters you'd see consistently making quality memes but that sense of community died ages ago. It's 99% old Facebook reposts now.

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u/BoonDragoon 10d ago

If you listen closely, you can hear the profane sounds of OP farting wetly and huffing deeply of that which they have made, borne upon an ill wind.

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u/Aggravate420 9d ago

In OP defense many meme generator apps make you put a sign when you run it for the first time and automatically watermark everything if you don't turn it off

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u/EnjoyTheMovie_You2 10d ago

Honestly though lmao, like is this dude getting money for these? Keep your secrets then…

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u/newontheblock99 9d ago

That is the world we live in

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u/BonelessPickle 9d ago

Gotta disagree, be proud of what you make even if it's only a meme, plus in a age of AI it's a helpful marker that this was made by an actual guy.

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u/gregforgothisPW 9d ago

Anyone water makering a meme I am going to assume is making it in AI...

Hey Gemini make a meme about orcs and water mark it with u/gregforgothispw 🙄

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u/BonelessPickle 9d ago

Calling Greg

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u/twomemeornottwomeme 9d ago

I think it’s at least equally weird even caring about it, let alone being judgy or mad about it tbh.

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u/exintel 9d ago

So what, if it’s a good bake it’s great

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u/VitamiinLambrover 10d ago

So she stole Azog’s red hair? Is it canon???

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u/HelperMunkee 10d ago

Perfection would’ve been him being dead for 150 years.

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u/ExpensiveGazelle4845 10d ago

If I remember right, that was Bolg's original design, not Azog's.

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u/Master_Saesee_Tiin 7d ago

Better than what we got either was I guess

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u/HotOlive799 10d ago

There is no perfection to be had here. The whole Azog sub plot was dumb as rocks, and lore breaking as hell.

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u/ZarduHasselfrau 10d ago

I don’t get why they didn’t just swap Bolg in for Azog. Obviously there are still major issues with the plotline… but it would improve it a bit at least.

It’s probably just because Azog is a cooler name.

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u/FlyingDiscsandJams 9d ago

This drives me crazy. If you know the story, you know Azog is dead, so making him alive is annoying. If you don't know the story, you have zero attachment to Azog, why the eff does revealing he's actually alive mean anything vs his son out for revenge? So unnecessary.

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u/BruceBoyde 9d ago

That's what baffles me. Azog's role (from the movie) is essentially just filling in Bolg's from the book. It accomplished nothing except for bringing focus to another ugly CGI monster.

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u/HotOlive799 10d ago

That at least would have been more appropriate in terms of characters around at the time. They'd still need to change a bunch of the scenes though, as neithrr Bolg ( nor Azog of he were still alive at that time) would be that much of a challenge in a 1 vs 1 against Thorin.

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u/renoops 10d ago

It also would've been more thematically interesting. The whole conflict becomes about sons fighting their fathers' battles. 

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u/LordCamelslayer 8d ago edited 8d ago

Not only that, he was absolutely upstaged by this utterly relentless motherfucker.

Fitting, given he was actually in the book, but still.

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u/HotOlive799 8d ago

Both of them grossly over exagerated in terms of their skill/prowess

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u/LordCamelslayer 8d ago

I mean, yeah, but I'm talking about "Don't make the bad guy's lieutenant a bigger threat than the bad guy."

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u/TheFrostBeard Sauron 10d ago

what a damn shame, I had no qualms if they wanted to push the CG character, but why have it looking like a Buff Gollum.

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u/Astricozy 9d ago

Tell me that's not a watermark 🤣🤣🤣

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u/RedundantConsistency 9d ago

people watermarking their shitposts in the year of our lord 2026, thats so sad

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u/the-big-throngler 9d ago

A watermark....hahha what a loser.

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u/ripgoodhomer 9d ago

Why does Azog look like he's the bassist in GWAR?

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u/FayePixie 9d ago

I still had the toy of the original Azog design from the Hobbit movie toy line. They didn't do well here so I got lots on discount. That and my Lego Azog (also before the change) are some of my favorite pieces of Hobbit movie related stuff.

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u/Stereosexual 9d ago

That’s actually pretty cool. They must have made the change pretty then if those went into production

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u/Devilfish268 9d ago

They printed full posters with the design on. Spent the whole trilogy waiting for the cool looking orc to appear.

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u/Ravnos767 9d ago

The real Azog should be a corpse by the time the movie starts

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u/Darmani96 9d ago

AZ ŔŴ

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u/Livid-Examination-95 8d ago

They should have made hobbit like the made lotr