• geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOP
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        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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          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 😅

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            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.