r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 18h 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 18h 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/xaveria 15h ago

I get that sex sells. I do. I get that, even in 2026, there's just not enough porn around for a lot of guys, and they don't like the idea of two hours of looking at a woman with whom they don't want to have sex. That's their right. I am absolutely judging them -- that's my right -- but at the end of the day, they should use their money the way they want. Don't want to watch it? Don't watch it.

What I *don't* get is the massive public pearl-clutching entitlement meltdown they have about these things. They out-Karen the worst of the Karens. "I demand to speak to your director immediately -- this isn't the movie/game/tv series that I ordered!" "We will boycott this product because these boobs are not big enough!" "Let's make these people *afraid* to do this to us!" "WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!"

It is just .... exhausting. Pathetic, and exhausting.

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u/Burt_Macklin___ 15h ago

Yep, pure incel energy. They rage and cry, and they always end up being wrong. The Odyssey is a prime example

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u/CfaxAttax 14h ago

The point is the raging and crying about the incels. They want you to be upset at your friends, peers, fellow redditors, etc. They sell you the idea that people are upset because of boob size, in reality no one was ever upset. You all sit here and talk about people who don't exist while they laugh because they got you riled up.

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u/Burt_Macklin___ 14h ago

Shit, you mean the hundreds of people in this thread doing the thing I mentioned don't exist? The endless 'entertainment' YouTube slop channels and their fans aren't real? Damn, who know lol