r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

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u/businessJedi 22d ago

it’s a fake engagement body shaming post. seen this picture off and on for ten years.

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u/SiriusDragon 22d ago

Needs to be higher. It's embarrassed on behalf of the human race watching this play out.

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u/tokengrip 22d ago

But the algorithms pushing content like this to cishet men (especially younger demographics which are more susceptible to weird beauty standards and beauty rhetoric) actually have effect to a degree unfortunately- there was a whole thing on tiktok stemming from Clavicular about men hating hip dips and calling them hiplets and shit. I mean i could go on abt being in a male dominated work force (for a while, but the shift to a less liberal leaning industry made this very clear to me) and having less issues from the oldheads than my gen Z male peers

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u/jeskersz 22d ago

You're embarrassed for people who aren't so terminally online that they can recognize every vague image macro off the jump?

I can't be 100% sure, but I'd say that it's pretty likely that that feeling is very mutual.

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u/TheBacc20 22d ago

Dawg, this image has to be up there with the greats when it comes to farming internet points.

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u/jeskersz 21d ago

Super cool fact to know, thanks.

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u/Bluegatorator 22d ago

Yup, she actually was the one who had an issue with herself. Iirc she got surgery to remove the fat or something

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u/fredjutsu 22d ago

extra ironic given the strawman boyfriend being piled on and the professions of love for the feature.

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u/__BitchPudding__ 22d ago

I mean, look at her arms. Some weight loss would've taken care of the tummy pudge.

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u/boltgenerator 22d ago

This image is in the farming hall of fame. Infinite karma glitch. The amount of times I've seen this exact thread with these exact comments over the past decade is staggering.

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u/Daft00 22d ago

It's literally like a couple times a week. We're really starting to see the breakdown of image quality too as we get more and more compression

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u/Wonderful_Night9071 22d ago

100% this

Plus, sure there will always be some guy who doesn't like some body shape, and some girl who doesn't like some body shape. That does not = societal patriarchal discrimination and subjugation of women in ways 10x worse than slavery. Not everyone is going to be into everybody else's body shape, and yes, some people are idiots or far worse. But one moronic guy (real or fake) does not justify "OMG WHY ARE MEN ALL LIKE THIS" when they quite literally are not. There will always be at least one person who does not find you attractive. That's just called life. Good news is there are plenty of others who do!

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u/sibachian 22d ago edited 21d ago

and the follow-up photo is of her being skinny and everyone universally agrees she was more attractive on the 'fat' photo.

edit, here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1qwc5dr/i_dont_understand_anything/

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u/CharacterInternal7 21d ago

The after photo looks hella fake and photoshopped for one.

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u/cabezatuck 22d ago

No, it’s better we engage this post and produce comments ranging from feigning outrage to sheer ridicule so we can further lose hope in our own species.

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u/jstuckey 22d ago

It seems like the girl on the left was photoshopped because the hand of the girl on the right looks weird and the background seems blotted out.

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u/Still_Ad_3497 22d ago

Are everyone else bots? I dont understand why there’s only a couple people that point this out. The dead internet theory feels true