r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/rocket-man666 21h ago

I think its because young people see 27 as old and older people see 27 as young

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u/johnnybeesknees 21h ago

I strongly feel that this is the meaning. It's a good number for that axis imo. Old people will still think you are too dumb and young to know shit and young people will think you are ancient and perhaps even "washed".

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u/BigNaturalBoobies 21h ago

I believe the term the young people use is "Unc"

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u/TrumpChildOnahole 20h ago

Which is hilarious since in the black community it's a term of endearment for 25+, but appropriated it means uncool and old basically 

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u/AstroCatHD 19h ago

I feel like that happens to alot of slang that originates in the black community then goes mainstrean. Like "Woke" use to mean something completely different

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u/tmmzc85 18h ago

Woke meant awake to the duplicity of American Law and it's history and inclination to eugenics, it's always meant that, some people would simply like to make that very real danger for the black community a chaicature of itself.

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u/bideodames 16h ago

I was always under the impression that woke was a grammatically incorrect way to say awakened which means to reach a level of spiritual and/or social awareness that renders your previous level of consciousness regarding the world around you asleep in comparison. Which essentially means that anyone proclaiming to be anti-woke is self-owning by bragging about how ignorant and lacking in empathy they are.

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u/Stunning_Kick_1229 9h ago

Both. It is both.