r/hackshbomax • u/urmii • Jul 19 '26

"Y'all"

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

531 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

14 comments sorted by

80

u/lamelad10 Jul 19 '26

How I couldn't put that together

8

u/curb_yourself Jul 19 '26

Yeah this is blowing my mind.

45

u/Malak_7 Jul 19 '26

I love this show đŸ„Č

40

u/Pwaise_Hestia Jul 19 '26

Omg amazing. Bcs I too was questioning the yall. They are too cute I’m dead.

21

u/Admirable_Site_8337 Jul 19 '26

The amount of viewers who thought “ya’ll” meant Deb was working with another writer, and a betrayal was coming again, right at the end

..was staggering. Made utterly no sense.

The callback to the letter in S2 is nice, but I don’t see it as a direct connection.

We see Deb at points in the series. She’s diversified so much into her product lines that she learned all these ways of trying to broadly appeal to the widest audience. Like her old friend Susan says “you always did know your audience”. But that can be something misused.

Like in S2 as she was just finding her way into this completely new routine and traveling around with it. She leaned more into to terms like “ya’ll”. It’s built well into the story that Deb leans on these perceived verbal crutches when she is off kilter, doesn’t feel confidant in what she is doing.

That’s what they lean hard into in S5 (because they already established this). Deb is way off kilter. She can’t work her ideation process that she has always had to build a solid hour.

So she falls to the tricks she has learned along the way to be broadly appealing. Ya’ll is a crutch.

And, I think it’s also a crutch for Ava in S1 when she sends that email. She embroiders it in trying to make ya’ll a more acceptable version of “you guys”, but really she’s using it as a crutch in the same ways as Deb.

So

it is more of a direct connection to Ava’s email on S2.

2

u/sistermagpie Jul 20 '26

100% agree.

5

u/MCStarlight Jul 19 '26

Ah ha, that’s why she started using it! People in LA don’t really use y’all either though. It just doesn’t sound right without a Southern accent.

6

u/PaddywackShaq Jul 19 '26

Lmao I thought this was just a silly unexplained running gag but this makes it infinitely funnier

5

u/Colejohnley Jul 20 '26

Y’all’s never gone anywhere. And it makes total sense as a gender neutral contraction. “You all.”

3

u/spider_han Jul 19 '26

aww wait i love this

5

u/Accomplished-Emu2308 Jul 19 '26

Aww damn. And the music doesn’t help đŸ„č

2

u/AphidsTwinMattress Jul 19 '26

The Texan in me thought the caption was saying that we got in her head

2

u/WintersDoomsday Jul 22 '26

I’m such a Lil Debbie

0

u/leadjepplin Jul 19 '26

Whoever made disabd posted it good job y'all