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I kind of hate when a meme is built from something I already know about because it's impossible to appreciate a mid-tier gag like this when I know the point of the original sketch.
John Cleese, here overlaid with Elon Musk's head, is the protagonist in this sketch. He's the one who's actually being honest about what's going on. Michael Palin, the vendor on the left, is lying about whether or not the bird he sold is dead. That's the joke. That's the point of the sketch. The humor isn't that John Cleese killed the bird, it's that Michael Palin sold him a dead bird.
This meme would make sense if Musk bought an already dead platform, but that's not what happened. Twitter was at its peak when he took the helm. He's actually the one that killed it.
This misses the whole point of the bit.
I see this trend on tiktok videos a lot where they take lines that were actually said and apply it to completely different situations and the meme falls flat if you know the context because the meme relies on ignoring or not knowing said context to even be remotely relevant.
TikTok being stupid as usual. XD
A better version might be putting Elon’s head on Gob immediately squishing a dove after buying it
It's like the Pam from The Office "It's the same picture" meme, Pam was tricking Creed into busy work to keep him out of trouble, so the pictures are the same, but everyone puts two different pictures in it which makes Pam look like the idiot.
That’s not the same thing. The joke is that the two different things are actually the same
I guess I get it now, but I don't like. It bothers me since the pictures are different, but I see now how it's the point. I was interpreting it both ways. So, I got it, but at the same time, was annoyed that wasn't the point of the joke in the show.
Would be much more willing to chuckle at these memes if Twitter was actually dead but it isn't, centralized social media and invasive advertising still exists, influencing still exists, we're still in the spiral of enshitification.
I find no joy in pretending like Twitter or what it upheld is actually gone.
"Twitter was at its peak" what a joke, maybe for its shareholders.
I'm so glad you wrote what I was thinking. Cheers.