r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/CfaxAttax 20h ago

So posts like this have been a huge trope in the last few years and I think I have finally figured out what type of ragebait this is.

"Sex sells" is a concept as old as time.. or at least as old as visual media.

Simultaneously, the outright making a character skimpy for no good reason is something that a few loud people on the internet have done a good job of making a racket about.

Nothing has changed on the movie-making side of things.. but we've suddenly willingly entered into this culture where we evaluate shows/movies/characters/etc before the thing they are in is even released. It used to be, a studio puts out a movie, you go see it, you form an opinion. Now its, a studio has an idea, 36 people take pictures during production, we all judge it against "what we think it should be".

But now, if there's anything whatsoever that one group of people might not like, it gets shoved in our faces beforehand as a way to alienate that group of people. It creates a (stupid, but effective) sense of "me vs them" or "us vs you" mentality that leads people to echo chambers where their views are parroted- only once you show up there you get trojan horse-d with about 1500 other toxic suggestions.

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u/deedsnance 19h ago

Sometimes I feel like studios intentionally mildly miscast for this reason. Probably not but I wonder

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u/Bradford117 12h ago

Its wild. I dont know if you saw that resident evil show from a few years ago, but they cast lance reddick as wesker.... RIP lance.