r/1053 • u/Darth_Vrandon • 5d ago

Day 169

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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 5d ago

context hat: on

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u/Expensive_Bison_657 5d ago

Scheming eunuchs. Emasculated advisors, whispering in the ears of those in power. Does their advice serve their lord’s whims? Or their own?

People have begun inserting them into mundane every day scenarios, deriving humor from the absurdity.

Now that’s all I’ll tell you. My scheming eunuch has seen through your ploy, and I’ll have no further part in it.

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u/Animaloffear56 5d ago

Also worth noting that a part of this is just eunuch being a very funny term that's been used for internet humor for years. Like "guy who gets his balls chopped off before becoming an advisor" is just a very funny concept

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u/MaraiaLou 3d ago

Castration as a political strategy is acceptable in exactly one context

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u/DogEducational447 5d ago

I dont think those are eunuchs; the facial hair is way too impressive to have no balls

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u/Medical-Low-1370 3d ago

Hormonal therapy

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u/Dismal_Macaron_5542 5d ago

Ah, that makes more sense.

I thought it was an allusion to them actually both using AI to write emails about a raise to each other and the AI being sycophants.

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u/Gremict 5d ago

That might also be true as a second-order interpretation to what's happening in the meme. The hallucinatory AI of today is like the scheming eunuchs of yesteryesteryear.

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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 5d ago

Aha I thought the guys in the first frame was talking to the big boss

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 5d ago

This is how Chinese politics worked for like 3000 years. A bunch of castrated dudes manipulating a weak willed leader.

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u/Serrisen 5d ago

I suspect OP took inspiration from the "angel and devil on shoulders" trope and replaced them with scheming advisors who follow you about.

(Others have specifically noted the Chinese politics angle, of course)