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This is the funniest shit I've ever read help

I dont get it. Is it the modern equivalent of RAWR XD SO RANDUM?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/6/AAYofGAADRnu.jpg
This is the funniest shit I've ever read help

Let's break down this line as best as I possibly can:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/1/AAYofGAADRoH.png
First, copeacabana:
https://youtu.be/a8MZBUoQt68
This is a parody of Copacabana (fantastic song) that is a consequence of the phrase "cope and seethe"; generally used in online arguments to taunt the opposition about how angry they are, but its wanton use has lead it to be intentionally used in confusing or nonsensical ways to be humorous.

Second, finger:
A few years ago, "kid named x:" memes were pretty popular, where a normal phrase's meaning is changed by a noun being the name of a person; "everybody pay attention" becomes different when there's a kid named "attention", and a comical reaction image would be attached. The shorthand for this became "kid named x:". One instance of this meme goes "teacher: okay class today we're going to finger paint" and "kid named paint:". Hilarious, obviously, but like "cope", it was corrupted into nonsensicality by a long and protracted process I don't wish to detail, and common joke became "kid named finger:". This is a sort of lifting of the floodgates whenever it's posted for people to post "kid named x:" in whatever nonsensical ways they see fit i.e. "kid named salad:", and once one corruption of format is fair play, all of them are fair play i.e. "finger named kid:" and "finger fingered finger:", which can lead to several consecutive posts of people trying to corrupt a post someone else made in this style, which leads us into...

3. Salami
This is admittedly an injoke. During these "kid named x:" segments, people will glom onto certain words. This (yet another layering of meme upon meme that is outside the scope of this post) was posted:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/2/AAYofGAADRoI.jpg
and "salami" caught on for the rest of the posting session, probably helped by the fact that it's a funny word. So, "salami" got inserted into everything, as you can see in the other posts.

4. Dame da ne guy
I know, this seems completely out of the blue, but it might be more integral to the post than anything else. Baka Mitai, from the Yakuza series, has experienced several spikes in popularity. You may remember the deepfakes of 2020, for example; it was so wildly popular and inescapable that people who knew nothing about Yakuza were still posting it. In their most viral form, most Baka Mitai posts will start with the line "dame da ne", and so Kiryu Kazuma (who sings the song ingame) was associated with the line. To satirize the cluelessness of some people posting Baka Mitai to the greater Yakuza series, some people began making posts about "dame da ne guy" (Kiryu), where the only things they know about Kiryu come from the short clips:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/3/AAYofGAADRoJ.jpg
Eventually, this resulted in what is probably the most famous "dame da ne guy" post:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/4/AAYofGAADRoK.jpg
You can see a very direct connection from this to the post I've been breaking down.

Obviously it won't be funny if you have to read a dissertation to understand it, but this should st least prove that there is some lucidity to it.

sokath, his eyes uncovered

What made this meme famous?

not the original st episode

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/2/AAZ1uBAADP--.jpg

You know a joke failed when you have to do a deep explanation of it.

jesus fucking christ i already explained IN THE VERY POST EXPLAINING IT that it's not going to be funny if you have to read an entire dissertation on it and that some jokes presuppose you're already intimately familiar with all of these sources and have seen them multiple times >:((((((

This is most definitely a CE topic

Let's break down this line as best as I possibly can:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/1/AAYofGAADRoH.png
First, copeacabana:
https://youtu.be/a8MZBUoQt68
This is a parody of Copacabana (fantastic song) that is a consequence of the phrase "cope and seethe"; generally used in online arguments to taunt the opposition about how angry they are, but its wanton use has lead it to be intentionally used in confusing or nonsensical ways to be humorous.

Second, finger:
A few years ago, "kid named x:" memes were pretty popular, where a normal phrase's meaning is changed by a noun being the name of a person; "everybody pay attention" becomes different when there's a kid named "attention", and a comical reaction image would be attached. The shorthand for this became "kid named x:". One instance of this meme goes "teacher: okay class today we're going to finger paint" and "kid named paint:". Hilarious, obviously, but like "cope", it was corrupted into nonsensicality by a long and protracted process I don't wish to detail, and common joke became "kid named finger:". This is a sort of lifting of the floodgates whenever it's posted for people to post "kid named x:" in whatever nonsensical ways they see fit i.e. "kid named salad:", and once one corruption of format is fair play, all of them are fair play i.e. "finger named kid:" and "finger fingered finger:", which can lead to several consecutive posts of people trying to corrupt a post someone else made in this style, which leads us into...

3. Salami
This is admittedly an injoke. During these "kid named x:" segments, people will glom onto certain words. This (yet another layering of meme upon meme that is outside the scope of this post) was posted:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/2/AAYofGAADRoI.jpg
and "salami" caught on for the rest of the posting session, probably helped by the fact that it's a funny word. So, "salami" got inserted into everything, as you can see in the other posts.

4. Dame da ne guy
I know, this seems completely out of the blue, but it might be more integral to the post than anything else. Baka Mitai, from the Yakuza series, has experienced several spikes in popularity. You may remember the deepfakes of 2020, for example; it was so wildly popular and inescapable that people who knew nothing about Yakuza were still posting it. In their most viral form, most Baka Mitai posts will start with the line "dame da ne", and so Kiryu Kazuma (who sings the song ingame) was associated with the line. To satirize the cluelessness of some people posting Baka Mitai to the greater Yakuza series, some people began making posts about "dame da ne guy" (Kiryu), where the only things they know about Kiryu come from the short clips:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/3/AAYofGAADRoJ.jpg
Eventually, this resulted in what is probably the most famous "dame da ne guy" post:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/4/AAYofGAADRoK.jpg
You can see a very direct connection from this to the post I've been breaking down.

Obviously it won't be funny if you have to read a dissertation to understand it, but this should st least prove that there is some lucidity to it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/1/AANKsdAADRuN.png

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/8/AAOGRhAADRoY.jpg

It's definitely this

His explanation is fine but it's still this. It's too many layers of injokes to ever process. This is the deeply buried fossils of injokes.

it obviously seems that way but it's more a consequence of the way half of modern memes presuppose your familiarity with othet memes and meme culture in general to make sense, and the jokes themselves have been super compressed into shorthand that seems like gibberish; each line is about 4 jokes violently smashed together

modern equivalent of RAWR XD SO RANDUM

I literally wrote an essay explaining why it's not that

*holds up spork*

Cope

I kinda get it but it really doesn't sound very funny unless you're eased into it or a part of it when it's starting out

Obviously it won't be funny if you have to read a dissertation to understand it, but this should st least prove that there is some lucidity to it.