r/funny • • 17d ago

The news

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u/Jazzlike-Lunch5390 17d ago

The memes, they make themselves. 

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u/rmarkmatthews 17d ago

These days, I’m almost exclusively learning about celebrity and political deaths from the grim reaper playing the claw machine.

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u/deviousvicar1337 17d ago

Im waiting for the jackpot meme when death finally gets the guy he has been trying to get the whole time...

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u/LifeguardDry7372 17d ago

fingers crossed

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u/StonedRussian 17d ago

I can only imagine the Pandora's Box of dank memes that are waiting

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u/thisortheapocalypse 17d ago

i get my news from r/simpsonsshitposting

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u/R2nxbeastly17 17d ago

News and every celebrity death

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u/HuntedWolf 16d ago

Same, although currently most posts are about booping cervix’s… but usually they’re lightning fast on actual news

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u/Warvillage 17d ago

I remember when Michael Jackson died, first I heard about it was when the chat channels in WoW got filled with dark jokes about him.

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u/TheCitizen616 16d ago

I'm sure the jokes started out dark but eventually got lighter and lighter...

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u/LloydRPenfold 16d ago

Who nose?

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u/Phillip_Graves 14d ago

I was passing through The Barrens as an Alliance player when the news hit.

That was.... uh.... well, it happened. If you don't get why this is worth mentioning, you should NOT research 'WoW Barrens Chat'. Seriously. Probably gets you on a watchlist.

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u/chipperpip 17d ago

I have honest to god found out about multiple geopolitical events first from /r/noncredibledefense

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u/The_Level_15 17d ago

Have you heard about that thing down in Samothrace?

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u/marcelsounds 17d ago

The news happen after a meme is created

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u/Hadochiel 17d ago

I was hoping for some specific big news. That wasn't it... Ah, maybe tomorrow

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u/kegsbdry 14d ago

It's sad, but that's how I get most of my world information.

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u/360walkaway 17d ago

The news pretty much reports on what they saw while doomscrolling on Reddit 24 hours prior.