• geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        492·
        3 months ago

        I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself. <sigh>

        The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.

        Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          272·
          3 months ago

          I think the problem is taking two separate photos from two different events on different days and thinking people would put them together.

          I bet you could find all sorts of separate photos of musicians from different events where one has armor and another has a red cape.

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
          18·
          3 months ago

          Okay, this pretty much helps, but now I don’t know what a VMA or an SNL is.

          I’m going to go with “Viking Marauder Awards”, a yearly event where people re-enact the sacking of the Lindesfarne Monastery etc, via the medium of song and dance (and pyrotechnics).

          and “Sitting Near Larry”, a weekly TV programme where a bloke called Larry sits down somewhere, and then semi-famous people come and sit near him and perform things. Larry has never heard of any of them, so gives them well-meaning but slightly patronising advice. Larry is just off-screen in the image shown above.

        • devfuuu@lemmy.world
          131·
          3 months ago

          Thanks. That helps. I still have no idea who those Chapel and Sabrina are, but I now know they are supposed singers and that this is about they being similar.

          I guess people that don’t know Buffy at least could identify one of them as the one in How I Met your Mother or from American Pie movies and the other having a cameo appearence in Big Bang Theory.

          I agree you are in a weird position knowing something so old and something so new at the same time 😅

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
          9·
          3 months ago

          I’m old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but didn’t watch TV back then. I also enjoy some modern pop music but, in the vast majority of cases, have never seen the artists. I’m also terminally bad at faces even if I have seen them (I’ve had to ask my wife whether a picture of her was her; she took it well).

          I did actually recognize Alyson Hanigan, since she has a few distinctive expressions and features, but had no idea of the rest.

          All that said to say: thanks for the explanation; me not getting the joke or reference doesn’t mean it was a bad one.

          • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
            92·
            3 months ago

            If explaining a joke makes it not funny, it was never funny in the first place. It was either just referential or based on shock value.

          • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
            5·
            3 months ago

            Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)

    • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      204·
      3 months ago

      It is if you’re old enough to know who the pic is actually of, or young enough to know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter actually are?

      • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        3 months ago

        Ugh… I’m in that first category. I have no idea who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are.

        • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of “man those people are constantly in the news.”

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
        112·
        3 months ago

        Don’t stop. I love these layered generational memes.

        Like “here’s a picture of Skibibi toilet recreating the famous scene in I love Lucy”

      • ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one
        9·
        3 months ago

        I know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are but I’m not familiar with the original photo. I feel like I should be, though

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        I think you need an “and” there where you used an “or”, but I guess I’m in neither category.