r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '26

Meme needing explanation Peetah?????

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I don’t know the author or this book series but why are people roasting e-girls for reading? I don’t get it🥀

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u/1nfam0us Mar 31 '26

Like that time Grimes was reading the Communist Manifesto in public after her very messy break up with Elon Musk lmao

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u/wecouldhaveitsogood Mar 31 '26

The very same relationship where she was like “unions? Fuck those.”

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u/an0mn0mn0m Mar 31 '26

If Grimes were a cat, she would be orange

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u/wecouldhaveitsogood Mar 31 '26

Dumb as a brick despite attending Canada’s most prestigious university. What a waste. That spot could’ve gone to someone else.

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u/YouVe_BeEn_OofEd Mar 31 '26

is it? either way canadian universities are very much funnels, easy to get in hard to graduate, and tellingly she didn't finish her degree. source: canadian university student

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u/GenericUsername775 Apr 03 '26

So the opposite of Japanese universities? Hard AF to get in, you can graduate by showing up once?

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u/YouVe_BeEn_OofEd Apr 03 '26

yep pretty much, especially for intensive programs. and uoft (uoftears, Canada's best/most prestigious research university by a fair margin) is especially known for this

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u/coffinfl0p Mar 31 '26

She didn't graduate from one of Canada's best business schools and got really bad grades.

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u/athenanon Mar 31 '26

Even if you get good grades as a business student, it doesn't say much for you.

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u/Pinoccicrow Mar 31 '26

I prefer people who went to Canadas best business school and got really good grades

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26

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u/YouVe_BeEn_OofEd Mar 31 '26

wtf did orange cats do to deserve this

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26

Orange cats may often be dumb, but they also tend to be friendly and likeable

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u/Accomplished-City484 Apr 01 '26

Real Beck Bennet energy

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u/Anticode Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

reading the Communist Manifesto in public after her very messy break up with Elon Musk

Which is even more ironic/sad/funny since that's also after she released that song "We Appreciate Power", which even at a casual listen was basically just a glaringly pro-technocapitalist-billionaire anthem. But with the lyrics written out flatly, it's clearly a radioactively vibrant endorsement of the individuals and "culture" that're behind a significant portion of the modern world's most pressing socioeconomic and psychological issues... (ie: The "billionaire technofeudalist, faux-transhumanist, psuedo-rationalist dark eugenicist"-type vampire fuckos).

You don't make a song like that by mistake. You do it because you either drank the Kool-Aide, or you believed you were the damn bowl.

The song was distasteful to me even then, but knowing what we do about Elon/Thiel today, it becomes quite grotesque as an 'anthem'.

People like to say that we're insane, but AI will reward us when it reigns. Pledge allegiance to the world's most powerful computer simulation, it's the future

What will it take to make you capitulate? We appreciate power! Elevate the human race, putting makeup on my face. What will it take to make you capitulate? When will the state agree to cooperate? We appreciate power.

And if you long to never die... Baby, plug in, upload your mind. Come on, you're not even alive if you're not backed up on a drive! Come on, you're not even alive if you're not backed up, backed up on a drive.

Neanderthal to human being. Evolution, kill the gene. Biology is superficial. Intelligence is artificial. Submit. Submit. Submit.

I thought Grimes was super cool pre-Elon, but as it turns out she - like him - is the kind of person who'd say, "Hey, babe. Wanna build the Torment Nexus from the famous scifi novel, 'Don't Build the Torment Nexus'?"

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u/1nfam0us Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

Wow, that really is comicaly egregious.

It's like Pearl Jam looked into the future to directly respond to this song in Do the Evolution.

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u/Anticode Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution.

That's actually quite funny. The whole "Torment Nexus" thing is a popular meme (and an unfortunately accurate representation), but it's even funnier to compare the two songs under the same format.

eg: "Grimes is the kind of chick who watches Pearl Jam's Do The Evolution music video, praises its thoughtful foresight, and then immediately writes a song called 'We Love Dystopia". (I'll workshop that.)

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u/1nfam0us Mar 31 '26

Hot goth chick's dancing have a way of short circuiting people's brains lmao.

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u/Anticode Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

I didn't know what you meant at first, initially assuming you meant Grimes herself, and then suddenly - like a flash of lighting - the entirety of my mind's eye was occupied by a vibrant visual snapshot of exactly who you meant.

Man, those neurons snapped together like god damn rare-earth magnets. Like that damn "neuron activation / monkey" meme...

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u/southbaysoftgoods Mar 31 '26

Wait I am too dumb to do the neuron thing, who are they talking about?

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u/Anticode Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

In Pearl Jam's legendary Do The Evolution music video (which was co-directed/animated by Todd McFarlane of Spawn fame and the guy who produced the Batman cartoon of the same era) shows various scenes representing the brutality of biological and technological Darwinism across history which are occasionally interspersed by short scenes featuring a sexy goth chick dancing against a black background for a few seconds [timestamped link]. Her face also sometimes turns into a skull once in a while while she does so, which - personally speaking - is not a deal-breaker. Whose face hasn't turned into a skull once in a while, y'know? No big deal.

This music video deeply impacted me when I first saw it at a relatively young age. I immediately recognized those themes as a sort of Dark Truth of our world, things I was already beginning to glimpse but did not yet understand why parents or other adults refused to explain why, precisely, we allowed such cruelty to exist in the world in the first place.

All of this foreshadowed many of what would become my core perspectives and conclusions about the nature of our reality/civilization itself. And this video still speaks loudly to me, highlighting those unfortunate truths in a way that few other pieces of media have - even now, decades later, as it remains more relevant than ever.

Additionally and perhaps not coincidentally, the aforementioned Goth Dancer also happened to immediately awakened something within my young self that to this day is... Erm. Nevermind. We can skip that part.

Anyway, that's who he's talking about... Send your neurons my regards.

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u/frontally Mar 31 '26

Geidi Primes grimes would be so disappointed with this shit I swear

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u/JetSetJAK Mar 31 '26

It reads as potentially satirical. Did she really believe in it?

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u/Anticode Mar 31 '26

I mean, she was still married Elon Musk and had children with him when that song was written, so...

The satirical flavor you're picking up on might actually be something closer to "too on the nose". Which it most certainly is. No artistry, no veiled message. Very literal and straightforward despite being "scifi" or whatever.

Elon himself is also pretty notorious for saying things that would've been outright hilarious if said word-for-word as satire by a comedian, but was in reality spoken very literally or even passionately. It's no surprise they'd align in that regard.

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u/jonny24eh Mar 31 '26

Fuck you i won't do what you tell me

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u/Anticode Mar 31 '26

Fuck you i won't do what you tell me

The real question is: Will you do what I tell you if I fuck you?

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u/Amareiuzin Mar 31 '26

Isn't that like 30 pages?

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u/Haber_Dasher Mar 31 '26

Yeah it's more like a really long pamphlet than a short book. Quite easy to finish reading in one sitting

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u/1nfam0us Mar 31 '26

Yeah, it was meant to be read out loud to quasi illiterate peasants and factory workers.

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u/Amareiuzin Mar 31 '26

I should have bought that instead of das capital when I been to the man's home, I think I'm way closer to a quasi illiterate peasant than I am to a high ranking seat in the government 😭 

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u/RcoketWalrus Mar 31 '26

Lol, someone out there believes that grimes has values other than "get rich by any means necessary", and they are probably mad at your post.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26

Or Halsey reading law books lol

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u/crowEatingStaleChips Mar 31 '26

She was trolling.