So, just for the record I went and clicked on the OP’s second link, ya know, because they want it in support of their argument. A quote:
One of the most popular videos, which was published on January 29, 2023, currently sits at 1.1 million views. It’s clearly intended as a humorous joke, causing shock to the audience that Obi-Wan Kenobi would really say such things about Ahsoka.
Due to the copypasta text’s sexually explicit NSFW content, I won’t be including the full text or any video in this article.
So yeah, even they admit NSFW, which, as mentioned would have required our two click rule. Miderator, schmidorator, take the note and be glad it wasn’t a warning.
FTR, the FIRST link includes quotes of the offensive text as well, so I’d ask a miderator, or better yet, a moderator to blur the hell out it or post a NSFW warning on it!
ETA: I just went back and watched the video. I can take misogynistic jokes. Hell, I used to do stand-up in the late 90s into the 2000s. I’ve told misogynistic jokes before (and I recognize that those jokes haven’t aged well, and I’m embarrassed to have written or told them).
But all that aside, it committed the cardinal sin: it just wasn’t funny. And that bit is from January of this year, per the upload date? It wouldn’t have been funny even back in more misogyny-tolerant times.
I’m embarrassed for society that (according to the YouTube comments) some people actually found it amusing.
It was horribly unfunny. Without the misogyny, which makes it even worse
There’s a link to it in the Know Your Meme page linked in the OP. I got exactly 19 seconds in before I got embarrassed on behalf of everyone who’s ever giggled at the stupid fucking thing and turned it off.
I’m a Star Wats fan to the extent that Haden Blackman once called me a geek online for knowing too much Star Wars trivia. Yet I’ve never heard of this meme, and I still haven’t seen it even after reading this thread.
Some people find offensive things funny for their own sake. I’m not one of them. It seems lazy to me.
Some things are funny in spite of being offensive, but it’s not their offensiveness that makes them funny, it’s their funniness. I like a good provocateur but it has to be thoughtful.
Now I’m pretty sure this is Zoomer humor so maybe there are layers of meaning I’m not getting, but it doesn’t come off as thoughtful, just peurile objectification.