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Jokes are temporary, they help keep people from thinking constantly about their struggles and doom, while laughing together about contextual situations in variations of society. This image you are angry about will be forgotten about soon and was a temporary little spark in existence that made a few people laugh and comment.
They don’t need to be timeless, and those that survive can potentially make people laugh in the future. It’s ok to ask what you don’t get about a joke, and it’s ok for jokes to exist as in jokes for those who get the context.
Some of them, the most basic, which are generally wordplay or best told in person will survive. What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh? The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see? And that it was probably best told in person as someone had their eyes closed and then opened an eye as they told the punchline?
Where are you getting these assumptions from? Also, your comment comes across as really condescending and preachy imo. It’s like you think I don’t understand what a joke is or that all these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
You’re totally right I assumed.
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If you’re not angry, and that’s your verbiage on being critical of a simple meme, I’d hate to see what an angry comment from you looks like
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Of course those are both assumptions, human communication is assumption based on known information, it’s shitty telepathy except when it’s math, and even then it’s not perfect.
“word salad and non-sequitors without premise” is genuinely a common aim and market for TikTok media. It was only a criticism if that wasn’t what the joke-teller was going for, and that’s what I wanted clarification of.
Last I heard, even historians have yet to come up with the context or meaning for that joke.
Then don’t assert those claims with such absolutism and authority?
I never claimed to be an authority, I just said that’s how I heard that joke explained before. Because whoever wrote the joke has been dead for an incredibly long time and if it’s funny to someone today in whatever context it’s fine. Are you claiming that if we can’t come up with the actual context to explain the ancient Sumerian joke then it is permanently not funny without context and that ancient Sumer was the OG tiktoker for not providing all the context?
This stupid TikTok joke may be dug up in thousands of years by some advanced machine version of us and they may do the same, of trying to figure out context and maybe getting a laugh, though thanks to the fact that commenters have explained it, perhaps they’ll scrape other metadata as well and figure out the original context. And if not, and they get a laugh out of however they understand it, that’s pretty neat too.
We are children in a vast enveloping cosmic dark. We should be serious about things that truly matter, mostly about trying to help each other and move forward as a species, and laugh or brush off things that we think are dumb.