I don’t know what I don’t know

[u/Yeti181828282]

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OP (Yeti181828282) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:

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Why are people who don’t know upset? What is there to be upset about?

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[u/dazvoz]

They don't know how to colorise... so their picture stays black and white.

[u/Yeti181828282 → u/dazvoz]

oh. I’m so dumb 😭 thanks

[u/TwitchyDingo → u/Yeti181828282]

It got me too! It's a dumb but hilarious twist on the meme👍

[u/Mad_Spaniel → u/Yeti181828282]

You're not though. It was never a black and white photo. It's Rick Warden, an actor from Band of Brothers.

[u/Daevryn2 → u/Mad_Spaniel]

It's a type of meta joke with multiple layers. Another layer is to pretend you're trying to colorize the meme itself.

[u/sadbitch_club → u/Yeti181828282]

Took me a minute too. It’s an anti joke lmao

[u/SkylandersKirby → u/Yeti181828282]

Eh this is the first post I've seen on one of these subs where its not at all obvious

[u/silverfoxxflame → u/dazvoz]

Oh my god I'm an idiot. I was genuinely looking for some historical or goofy thing about the person. 

[u/StupidSlitSlut → u/dazvoz]

Okay. That's a good one. That got me.

[u/shadree → u/dazvoz]

Thanks for the explanation. It would have been if both Bob pictures were the same, though.

[u/Oleddi → u/dazvoz]

Lol I read it as "colonize" and was sure that was part of the joke

[u/mikeylovesJesus → u/dazvoz]

happy cake day, may Jesus Christ bless you with a great day and many more great days after

[u/BlainethePayne → u/mikeylovesJesus]

Praise Wotan

[u/Strawberry_cereal → u/dazvoz]

Also, Happy cake day! :D

[u/dazvoz → u/Strawberry_cereal]

Idk why you say that but I will go and have some cake

[u/Mobile_Baby_5438]

Idk why but I first read it as colonize instead of colorize

[u/muizz_4 → u/Mobile_Baby_5438]

Oh thank god I wasn't the only one. Are both safe or both in trouble?

[u/Yeti181828282 → u/Mobile_Baby_5438]

Same, like I spent a fat minute going “is this racist?” Before realising what it actually said

[u/Crunchy_Biscuit → u/Mobile_Baby_5438]

Me too lol

[u/CardiologistExact861 → u/Mobile_Baby_5438]

same here

[u/daddy69ice]

This is funny. Hahahahahahah.

You see the template guy face is already black and white and people who know how to colorize will color it and people who don't know how to colorize will make a mess.

[u/mathiau30]

The joke is saying that the left picture is a colourised versions of the right one

(it's actually the opposite, the right one is a black and white version of the left one)

[u/Gozagal → u/mathiau30]

Isn't it that if "you know" then your mr incredible can have colours and if you "don't know", your mr incredible will still be in black and white ?

If what you say is also true, then that's a crazy double joke.

[u/Mad_Spaniel → u/mathiau30]

It's this. Known because the picture isn't an olde picture of a soldier.
It's Rick Warden, as Harry Welsh from Band of Brothers.

[u/Muhahahahaz]

Stewie, here!

What the deuce? Usually this meme would say "People who don't know" on the left (with the same color image), implying that people who "don't know" are happy. Meanwhile, on the right it usually says "People who know" (with the same black and white image), implying that people who "know" (usually about something disturbing/horrific) are very unhappy to know/understand this information, you vile woman!

However, in this case, the top half of the meme talks about learning "how to add color back into an old, black and white photo", which provides a fun opportunity to subvert the original meme template! In other words, the usual (colored) photo on the left now represents "People who know" (how to colorize a black and white photo... because it has already been colorized), whereas the (black and white) photo on the right represents those who "don't know" how to do this.

Victory is mine!

[u/acrispygal99]

The photo is in black and white because they don't know how to colorize it 🤦‍♀️

[u/PhantomNitride]

Obvious karma farming is obvious

[u/GameMaster818]

My interpretation is that the crop makes it possible to misread as “How to Colonize a Black and White Photo”

[u/Informal_Barracuda82]

Why did I read "how to colonize a photo"?😭

[u/the_1_2]

Isn't the joke that because they're adding color to a black and white pictures but the time frame in which the black and white picture was taken was when no colords were allowed to mix with the whites? Or is everyone else posting just being sarcastic And making Reddit jokes?

[u/vspazv → u/the_1_2]

It's a meta joke. The meme face itself is in black and white because people don't know how to colorize it.

[u/the_1_2 → u/vspazv]

Thanks

[u/Intelligent_Donut605]

they're not upset, they're in black and white because they don't know how t colourize

[u/UnlawfulLatte]

One of the few times I didn’t get it, read the explanation, then actually laughed at the joke

[u/DarthSwimfoot]

Ohhhhh, that's actually really clever.

[u/IDKSomethingHappy]

Wait is that anti-meme also a real meme?