On Not Getting The Joke

/ shaq

[@Trentkobe]

This is what happens when your child grows up watching sunsets. smh

[@chysayeh4043]

love this approach. contemporary humor is so intensely referential and nobody wants to feel alienated as if everyone’s having fun understanding the joke w/o them

[@dgoosen4878]

The waffle house has found it's new host

[@milk_bath]

@@dgoosen4878 Ok boomer.

[@MrNobbless]

This is how I feel watching Community. It's constantly making references, of which I only catch half of, but I know that they're there and I know they're funny. So even though I have no clue who the hell Eartha Kitt is I still laugh when Pierce shoehorns a joke about banging her in an airplane bathroom.

[@cooljammer00]

I think the 30 Rock writers said they'd stuff the show with so many jokes, it was okay if you didn't get one because there'd be another one a few seconds later. You also end up having a wild hit/miss rate on jokes, because it's just a joke factory.

[@terribled]

Eartha Kitt was extremely bangable, F.y.i.

[@CM-yz3ze]

Very Streets Ahead.

[@Furen]

She's catwoman from the 60s Batman show.

[@NippleSwag08]

And Yzma from Emperor's new groove

[@cooljammer00]

I always think about that Parks and Rec gag where the newsman says he didn't understand something someone said, but enjoyed it anyway because "it had the cadence of a joke". Or Bart and Milhouse reading an old MAD Magazine and giggling about "them sticking it to this Spiro Agnew guy/he must work there or something". You get that a joke was told, but don't actually understand the context. But it's enjoyable in its own way.

[@ujai5271]

I had to look up what "watching sunsets" means, ironically enough. It means mourning someone who comitted su***de (seems like YT doesnt like comments about that). So yeah, I'm glad I looked it up. Literal 180 for me.

[@juan_w_fer]

This was The Simpsons for me. Not just the usual "I was too young to understand the jokes" but because I was literally born and raised in Argentina, took me decades to even hear about Rudolph Giuliani in a different context.

[@QuargCooper]

On the point regarding niche jokes; having grown up with a very specific shared social context with my siblings, I often make jokes that are outrageously niche. I think the benefits of this are threefold. There is a particular joy to be found in creating a joke that no-one has ever heard before, and few people can understand. Seeing the recognition of that impossible moment of understanding in the eyes of someone you care about is a beautiful part of the human experience. And when my habit of doing this continues, and I'm bemusing my partner with these impossible to understand references, we become closer through me sharing my enthusiasm for the context of this niche thing with them. In conclusion, please continue bleeping your swears with the fox shine sound.

[@pattynoowen]

I think I realize how thankful I am for creators that put jokes in but try not to muddy the real message. At the end of the day informative or argumentative pieces of media shouldn't be overly convoluted with the attempts of humour, and pieces of media where it is just about the inside joke kind of have an empty following.

[@Kirocuto]

I've heard that at least some of those nonsense phrase's in videos are a form of engagement bait. You replay the video to figure out what they're saying, search/leave comments hoping for an answer etc etc, meanwhile the phrase means nothing beyond getting you to interact with the video.

[@Roro_2338]

your premise is totally the cow's hands. nobody would ever put use such a slopsticky, shacklewooded tactic just to farm something as silly as engagement baiting. take your horses out of the bathroom and stop being so cynical.

[@schmules101]

Shrek 2 is a great example of this. It’s one of the most intertextual films I’ve ever seen and chok a blok with references and jokes, but if you don’t get some of them it doesn’t matter as it’s all still super fun anyway

[@BigDaddyDracula]

here for the Gex reference

[@Maserface]

I want my kid to grow up watching sunsets go insaneo mode

[@FrozenGoblin]

I grew up with MST3k, so I'm very familiar with understanding the humor of references you don't get.

[@Jason-fp7vi]

Renting Gex from blockbuster in 2002 "I don't get any of these jokes and this game is garbage" Playing Gex now "I don't get any of these jokes and this game is garbage"

[@kelseyf2619]

I think this can also translate to not needing to keep up with pop culture or celebrity drama. There are a lot of modern celebrities that i don’t know anything about and i have no desire to. And it comes from a neutral place. Not a “i hate celebrities and i’m averse to learning about pop culture and whats hip and modern” but more “i don’t have interest in this, and i will not give it my time or attention” you can disengage without being a hater i guess. Anyways good video!

[@aquaintsound]

I'm autistic and sometimes I get sucked into understanding jokes. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't understand a joke- and then i find out that the joke just wasn't funny. Hopefully seeing this will help my brain stop falling down those rabbit holes. Thanks

[@ksskoala4446]

"That was so funny I forgot to laugh"

[@EDoyl]

I remember you used Melee sound efffects as a censorship beep which is a great example of a reference nobody's punished for missing. If you don't recognize it, it's just a bleeped swear word. You wouldn't even notice there was something to miss.

[@CommanderWar64]

Shaq, I know that Gex explanation at the end was only meant to be an apt comparison, but holy fuck that was so fucking funny because most people dont even know Gex anymore so it works both ways.

[@Arieljaay]

I know at this point it'd be kinda useless knowledge but those tiktoks sound like a bad phrasing of a satirical joke about ipad babies. Like they're sarcastically saying they don't want their baby to experience the real world and instead be on an ipad their whole infancy, but again, dumb joke, and dumb way of telling the joke. But I could also just be 100% wrong lmao.

[@netshaq2]

ok i found an explanation and all i gotta say is 'wat da' knowyourmeme.com/memes/growing-up-watching-sunsets

[@Arieljaay]

​@@netshaq2 lmao the fuck?

[@crossingtheline2189]

I've never seen a not spam, useful link on a KZbin comment before. Wasn't even sure if it was going to work haha

[@JosephBayot]

I really want someone to upload that Michael Scott clip but with your audio instead and then act really confused when people comment that it's not the original audio haha

[@michaelduberstein3334]

Masterful editing, reminded me of that time I watched birdman

[@NikolasN64]

God. Came for the incredible cooking content and solving the age old problem of making bad burritos. Stayed for the enlightenment… and GEX REFERENCES good lawd can’t believe this brotha just said this shit reminds me of that good tap water at Jerry Garcia’s.

[@NxnjaSenpai]

I didn't know insano style was something some guy wanted to spread. I've been associating it with Captain Insano from Waterboy who was an over the top type of character. Though I get the feeling that was the original inspiration.

[@cringechannel4213]

man i love you netshaq

[@blueshirttail]

I have no idea what that phrase means, but one of my favorite Morrissey lyrics is: “The sunrise behind the home for the blind.”

[@Pm-jf2mw]

We are the pretty, petty things!

[@klars2421]

And he stole from the rich and the poor and the not very rich and the very poor

[@empatheticrambo4890]

I totally agree with the final point. I hate those "curiosity bait" ads

[@laurajean223]

This is my new favorite channel.

[@julen_goni]

I liked jokes in shows like old Simpsons or family movies from e.g. Pixar for this reason. Maybe the characters said something that you didn't understand or made a reference that you don't know about, but you weren't alienated if you didn't, there was probably something in what they said that was funny anyway and there wasn't too much attention put on it so the story kept you moving anyway. Then maybe you found out what it means, go back to it and it makes it better.

[@conord5043]

Insano style 👍

[@Sylvatic98]

its insaneo style

[@heroclix0rz]

"And that's my take. Goodbye." I understood that reference!

[@SpoonMe]

Like, “I did it for you brother”. Historic Julian Smith’s Hot Koolaid. Genius back in the day. This video is still funny but Julian Smith today videos are just sad because he’s trying to be some thing he’s not anymore. Also, my daughter is Shaq’s age, but works with someone in their very early 20s Now, my daughter gets jokes and references from her own generation, but also from mine. So someone in their work group kept saying it must be gremlins and her coworker didn’t understand the 80s movie reference and someone else said I’ll get that to you in two shakes, and the coworker did not understand (probably a little more ancient) two shakes of a lambs tail, which I have no idea what the h3ll that means, but get the reference. I would say that yours and my daughters generation is one of the last to kind of have multi generational referential understanding because you try and you listen, and you pay attention to those things because you’re a consumer of information and education I don’t know that this last generation tries as hard. Although every generation has its share that don’t get it.

[@bingusman69]

Damn I understood Insane-O Style and it's gratifying to hear about it again lol

[@SourSourSour]

Total tangent from the main point of the video, the initial example sounds like people trying to get around algorithmic filters discussing nono topics, like how when discussing su***de they just say "unalive" and that sorta thing. Adapting their language in order to speak authentically, yet alienating people in the process. Pretty weird, and not sure how I feel about it, but that's my 2 cents. The general points on being mindful of consumption and being ok with not constantly needing to know every trivial lil bit o data was nice

[@nangzdk]

This whole video is just a defense of Steve Rogers attitude in the Avengers for understanding 1/10 jokes but being very happy he did, while simultaneously not complaining that he didn't get the other 9.

[@rickfakhre2400]

I really like these new videos. Now talk about how hard it is to come up with new material so I don't regret not becoming a KZbinr myself. Thanks.

[@wickybugger]

I gotta get me some skittels.

[@buffkangaroo3765]

What does your shirt say?

[@andersonic]

The MidMac video was funny on the first watch with no context. It took reading the comics to learn what it was specifically making fun of. That made it an added level of funny, with the cost of knowing about said other content, but that was on me for digging too deep.

[@pkoch]

Here I am, watching a sunset. 🌇

[@marcbecker1431]

Gex reference out of nowhere.

[@ehrenloudermilk1053]

Dig pretty deep for that Gex bit. I saw that.

[@yugimontcg]

Out of topic but you have a pretty hip sense of style. Your style of dressing your set (house) is this something one can "learn"?

[@duLuded]

you use the smash bros shine to censor swear words. thats a reference I love to see

[@DanRoxtar]

GABBO IS COMING

[@stolenweirdness]

u ok shaq

[@theclownofclowns]

Gex ad

[@cademan104]

Hi

[@Quixan]

Another fetch video. Your takes are streets a head!

[@Krenny]

it's a cheap form of clickbait I guess. Especially with the 8 minute tiktok not explaining the phrase. Also I googled watching sunsets and the first article I found said it refers to a person who has commited suicide. So I guess mom's don't want their kids to kill themselves. Who woulda thought?

[@Sky-bx9mn]

I know you did this video like a year ago but it made me think of this kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZq0gIOOqKahfqs Dimestore Adventures video where he does a bunch of research in order to get the joke on a 200-year-old headstone.

[@ShahabSheikhzadeh]

any time there's something about getting a joke -> google -> search -> know your meme results