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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

Can someone explain the meme to me? I'm oblivious

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I'm just wondering is "delulu" slang for "delusional"? Like was the real word that hard to spell?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I think it's short for "the lulu" which is a cutesy name for the Lusitania, meaning they feel like they have been sunk.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's a cutesy way of spelling it, popularized on social media and also by content creators

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sometimes words evolved for the spelling, sometimes for the sounds.

I think in this case it was for the fun sound, especially given it arose through tiktok communities.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well one is certainly more fun to say

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If you want to sound like a child, yeah....

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I figured its unrealistic body standards and lifestyles? All the pictured people (mostly women) are barbie-doll skinny and tall.

I had to look up delulu, and it seems to be a reaction to that very thing:

Delulu is an internet slang term used to describe the belief that one can influence one's own destiny through sheer willpower. Derived from the English-language word delusional, the term has its origins in K-pop communities where the term delulu is used to refer to individuals who were in a parasocial relationship with celebrities and had hopes of meeting them someday. The term has subsequently been adopted by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, popularized by viral TikTok trends such as the catchphrase "delulu is the solulu", implying that self-confidence is key to achieving one's dreams, however far-fetched. Solulu and trululu are slang terms for "solution" and "truth" respectively, and they are modeled after delulu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delulu

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

What a terrible day to be able to read.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah thx. I remember Desilu Productions and wondered if Delulu was similar. I didn't recognize most of the TV shows.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Still confused. These look like normal people with some nice makeup on.

Is the joke that americans are fat?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Still recovering from the fact that life in my 30s will never look like Friends

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yep I know literally nobody who has a friendship group like that past early 20s

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Okay but Mean Girls was supposed to be ridiculous and unrealistic. They hired a 25-yr-old Rachel McAdams to play a high school junior for a reason lol

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Forgot this one:

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill are the two remaining Edit: anticlockwise from top left:

  • Mean Girls
  • Gossip Girl
  • Gilmore Girls
  • One Tree Hill
  • Sex and the City
  • Pretty Little Liars
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks mate 👍

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I recognize Mean Girls in the top left, but I have no clue on the others.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Top right: pretty little liars
Bottom left: Gilmore Girls

Idk about the others

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

WRONG! Top right is A: who’ll it be this week

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Besides sex in the city and mean girls, that was the extent of my knowledge too. I wonder if we are from a certain generation…

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Middle right looks like "Sex and the City"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So if someone can ID middle left and bottom right, we’ll have the whole set

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think middle left is "The OC" maybe?

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