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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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Why are people like this? It has signs and context and explanation and all
Seriously. I understand there’s a generational gap, but this is laid out so fucking plainly. Like… how does she not know, at the very least, that the purple dude is not a real person
how is it plain? what is he doing? what is on his arm? what does him fucking with his arm have to do with taking a charger when it is not needed? I have no idea and clearly plenty of other people also agree.
this scene is not common enough knowledge to reference that people know what's happening and that makes it a poor choice for the meme.
The dude is a purple alien. Like unless this lady has never seen a person before then that’s pretty obvious.
I still don't know what you're suggesting. are purple aliens known to take chargers unnecessarily? I get that her responses are strange (possibly fake) but my point is that the meme sucks and doesn't make sense on its own to a lot of people, myself included. this scene in this movie franchise is not well understood enough to connect to the situation.
She was asking if they “knew him.” If they knew a purple alien, like has met this obviously not real person before. I do not understand your confusion at all my man.
my point has nothing to do with her ridiculous responses. you said the meme was plain, as if it makes sense or is easy to understand. as a meme it is crap and does not. the mom was daft but it's not like the meme actually makes any sense.
Maybe thinks its some performer or a statue or something. She probably didn't pay attention to all the grimmace ads so has no frame of reference of why a charger would connect to a big mac
Or maybe shes just an idiot.
She could be pretending to not understand because she misses hearing her/his voice.
That’s true. I hope that’s true. That would be cute AF.
Purple guy confuses me
I don't know him in that picture
It's a representation
Did you go there?
(That's the part that got me. It's such a clueless to say lol)
I wish they just responded with a full lore dump that would be far more confusing
"Yes mom, I'm sorry to tell you I'm part of Thanos' army now. He is traveling planet by planet to erase 50% of every global population. I think it's really smart. You might disappear though, but it's all for the balance. Once we kill those pesky Avengers and collect all the Infinity Stones we'll be right on our way. Sorry, can't talk now, hope your phone is charged over 80%, busy busy. And thoughts and prayers that you're part of the 50% that remains! If so I'll call you tomorrow after we kill Spider-Man. Love you."
Is it the McDonalds guy
Why?
I get it from context clues, but I have no idea what’s going on in the screenshot. The only Marvel movies I’ve seen are like…. iron man 1 and uhhhh transformers? If that’s marvel.
It could be your personal imaginary friend from childhood and it would still stand. The point of memes is that context is optional. I haven't watched American comic hero movies either. The point is that there's a character taking or holding something
yes, we can deduce that someone is doing something and that is being compared to taking a phone charger when it isn't needed. but a solid meme references an image that has a humorous and well understood comparison to the topic. this just appears to be a guy using a robot arm device. I don't know how that comically references someone taking something that they don't need when they already have enough. does it?