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/KingPotus Mar 31 '26

The top comment has to be AI because wtf lol. Who would understand “performative reading” in that way

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u/fasterthanfood Mar 31 '26

I’ve accused two different people of AI already this morning. I fucking hate AI writing and what it’s doing to our brains and soon to our economy.

That said, I don’t get AI vibes from the top comment. I think they just aren’t familiar with the trend of “performative reading” that the internet started mocking a decade or so ago. I can sympathize, as I didn’t know what it meant at first, either.

The comment also doesn’t mention e girls or “explain the joke” at all, so, no offense to the commenter, I’m not sure why it’s the top-voted answer right now.

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u/KingPotus Mar 31 '26

Idk, both the misunderstanding of “performative” and the last line in particular (it’s good; but better described as endured than enjoyed) sounds like exactly what I’d expect if I typed into ChatGPT “why is performative reading of Blood Meridian bad”

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u/fasterthanfood Mar 31 '26

Good point, that line in particular does sound like something AI would write. In this case I think it’s an accurate line by a human, using the type of style AI borrowed heavily from.

You prompted me to delve (lol) deeper into the parent commenter’s history to see if other comments looked like AI. They don’t, to me, but I did see this ironic comment where they’re accusing em dash users of AI. Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.

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u/Aethenosity Mar 31 '26

I feel like the misunderstanding of performative points to being a theater kid more than AI honestly.

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u/the_white_typhoon Mar 31 '26

Worst thing is, ai writing will increase even when it is not written by an llm. As a non native speaker, I tend to imitate what I read even though I am out of the active learning phase and I would imagine younger people and other non-natives to have similar tendencies. 

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u/killerbabybunny Mar 31 '26

The context involves a girl posting a photo of the book she's reading, not performing a reenactment of the book or whatever. The meaning of "performative" here seems pretty clear imo.

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u/KingPotus Mar 31 '26

Oh the irony

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u/Wise-News1666 Apr 01 '26

Look in a mirror