Yeah, that one started out sincere (I think it may actually be based on a real life action 
), but other people started using it sarcastically almost immediately.
SpongeBob text is a old millennial meme
Yes. It’s sort of an extremely complex game of Simon says. We had our first dance this afternoon. There was a lot of “starting up overhead”, including talking one woman through how to buy a copy of Minecraft. 
But it went okay. I think i need to bring more resources near the dance hall, as a lot of the players wanted to mess around with the Minecraft aspect of the game.
I don’t remember it from the 9Gag days - to me “old millennial” memes are extinct memes like “le” everything.
Eta: Unless it’s a newer meme created by old millennials?
Eta 2: according to your cite it’s from a 2012 episode of SpongeBob, that’s Season 8 which is definitely past the era millennials reference. I feel like that’s firmly in the “Zoomer ironic fandom” era.
This is a millennial meme - it comes from a 2002 episode of SpongeBob:
Here’s another meme from early SpongeBob (this one is exactly the kind of dumbass, shitty, overly verbose crap that got posted to 9gag)
Millennials like myself watched “old SpongeBob” which generally refers to the first 3 seasons/before the first movie. Those seasons were on repeat on Nick when we were kids.
Zoomers are super into “New SpongeBob” which got way zanier, and is where things like that chicken SpongeBob or “handsome Squidward” come from.
Handsome Squidward memes, just like the alternate caps meme, get shared on Reddit all of the time, even though most redditors are my age and - if they’ve even seen the episodes these memes come from (I have not) it’s because they went back and watched them out of curiosity, not because they remember them from when they were kids.
Also, the alternate caps meme doesn’t have much to do with the original SpongeBob based meme at this point - I saw it used, understood what it meant, thought it made sense, and started using it long before I found out it originated with a SpongeBob based meme.
You know what, we can split the credit and call it zillennial, which is probably right. It’s very cuspy. I consider it a pretty stale meme these days, only really used ironically when trying to make a shitty meme on purpose, but it’s cuspy indeed
You mean, using it in an actual meme? Yeah, I haven’t seen that done in years and years. I do see it constantly on Reddit in general conversation used to express sarcasm, though.
Anyways, I had no idea that the Dope was home to such a discerning connoisseur of memes. I’ll have to up my game.
Yes. In a real one
Wow, okay, that does sound hard. Can’t take any time to think or you’ll get out of time with the music.
Leave the server running so they can log in at other times and do some building and exploring when you’re not trying to practice dancing? Having chests with basic equipment wouldn’t hurt, though there’s something to be said for having to start by punching down a tree.
I remember that one. Even though I’ve never watched SpongeBob. I used to read 9Gag years ago, but then it filled up with annoying politics posts and people saying ‘look how attractive this cartoon character is’ and other stuff that isn’t funny.
Yeah, I didn’t know it came from a SpongeBob meme, but I’ve seen it used on Reddit (to imply a person or what they are saying is crazy) for many years, and used it myself occasionally.
Reddit advice subs are literally the worst: as well as the alternating caps thing being way overused, people are always described as ‘dramatic’ and ‘too much’ for normal behaviour, everyone asking for advice is surrounded by narcissists, and the advice is always to leave your SO, divorce your spouse, and cut your family out of your life with no explanation. I swear every post was written by AI before AI was even invented.
I pay for a third party server which is (almost) always one. At the first meeting, the players passed around a birch log so they would stop getting that annoying “punch a tree” message. 
I put a stack of iron blocks in a chest, and a few logs. But i thought planting some trees would give them as much wood as they need. I also added some saplings and some cobblestone to the chest, put down a few grass blocks, and planted a small patch of wheat. (The dance hall is on a mushroom island, which is lacking in some of the basics. We won’t be attacked by zombies while we dance, though.)
Oh, and to generally return to the topic of the thread, and give you a sense of my social circles, the people who joined me were:
Two cis men
A cis woman
Two trans women
Two non-binary people. (One of whom is drifting towards identifying as a trans woman, i think. At any rate, her partner refers to her with female pronouns, so I’ve followed suit.)
Well, at least based on the curated subset of “who’s the asshole” i hear from my daughter, often one of those people really is a raging asshole. Generic newspaper advise columns get more problems where neither side is acting horribly.
I sometimes play games online with some old friends from university, but only one of them is trans.
Why do you think such a high proportion of people in your social circles (and a well above average number in mine) are not cis?
Most of those posts are creative writing exercises, and people are going to put themselves in the best light possible anyway. I bet newspaper advice columns also receive a lot of fake problems - I remember Dan Savage talking about it; he reckoned he could spot the fakes, but there’s no way of verifying he was right.
Because people cluster. When a few people came out as trans in my square dance club, it became known as a comfortable place for trans people, and more trans and gender-uncertain people joined it. I watched this happen.
Other than that, i know scattered trans people, like many others. An ex-partner of my sil, the adult children of a few friends. I guess also my son’s ex, but they met at the square dance club.
So really it’s just one social circle? And people joined because it already had other trans people? That’s not very interesting.
Well, i also think i know more people than many people do. I invest in relationships, and spend a fair amount of time and energy maintaining social bonds. The (off the top of my head) three friends with trans children are all from completely separate circles (college, work, and puzzles) and then there’s my sil’s ex. Maybe just those four are more than most people know. But yes, the trans people i am personally close with, not just “people i know mostly through relationships with other people” are all members or past members of my square dance club.
If it means you know more different types of people in different ways, then yeah. I guess it is also possible to spend a lot of time and energy on relationships but only eg within your own religious community, but it doesn’t sound like you are doing that.
I found a survey from 2022 that says 44% of Americans personally know a transgender person (it’s probably gone up a bit since then). It’s surprisingly similar for Republicans and Democrats, too (42% vs 48%).
It also says over 5% of young people (18-29) identify as trans or non-binary, Vs 0.3% for those 50+, so it makes sense it would be your friends’ kids more than your friends.
A member of my highschool class came out to the class as trans at our last reunion. She’s my age. (And i don’t really know her, and didn’t know her at all in high school.) So i guess i kinda know at least one 50+. And my SIL’s ex must be that old now.
And i know a couple of trans women from messages boards, one of whom is both in my profession and someone I’ve met in person, so maybe i ought to count her. She’s over 50, too.
Of course, the reason i met her in person is that she knew i am an ally. (We met on an anonymous message board, but agreed to share IRL information prior to attending the same actuarial meeting.) So that’s not really independent of the others, ya know?
I think a lot of people know trans people but don’t know that they know trans people.
I strongly suspect that that’s true.
If I didn’t know somebody before they transitioned, and they haven’t told me – how would I know? Not everybody’s going to show readily visible indications; I think that many, maybe most, trans people won’t.
Fairly often you can tell, more so if you are familiar with trans people. But by no means always; I think @puzzlegal is probably right that many people know trans people without knowing they do.
I’m not sure I see the transphobia.
I wonder: is it possible to debate trans sports–to argue that it’s unfair to cis women to allow trans-women to compete with them for slots on a women’s sports team–without folks assuming that arguer is transphobic?
Isn’t it possible that a person who posits that it’s usually unfair for trans-women to compete for roster spots with ciswomen is not transphobic?
Some repulsive right-winger might employ discussion of trans sports participation as an obvious wedge to introduce their transphobic hatred. But does that mean that @Babale is transphobic? Isn’t that unfair to Babale?