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Got no idea what's going on here
Left side: Black mirror S01E02 "fifteen million merits" . A guy tries to "break the system" but this backfires and his critic that was supposed to change people's minds is absorbed by it and turned into an entertainment product. The upper-left image shows the moment in the episode where he criticizes the system threatening to kill himself while the bottom one shows the final image of the episode where he how lives in an expensive suite
Right side: "Being ugly : My Experience" A youtube video of a guy explaining how his unattractiveness has biased his life and brought unhappiness upon him. A reason why this became viral, besides the obvious connection by many due to the topic was that a girl commented that she found the guy of the video very cute and they actually became a couple
The meme: It compares both cases implying that the guy on the right was breaking the system but that his cause was "silenced" by providing him a girlfriend and turning him into a channel that lectures people on having hope about the prospect of finding a suitable partner
Thanks Peter!
Time to make a video complaining that no one has ever granted me the ability to turn water into vodka.
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Wow! Thanks for the explanation! That's a really great meme that went completely over my head.
Left panels are regarding Black mirror, where the guy becomes famous by ranting about the system and threatning to kill himself if his life didn’t get meaning. Ended up becoming the meaningless entertainment himself in exchange for more money and better living
My guess is that after he posted the video, a pretty (I dunno by what exact standards, but she does look good in my opinion) girl contacted him:
The left half of the picture - no idea, but it looks like some movie reference related to overcoming shit and shit
He (or she) could actually be attractive with some simple changes.
Probably lots of others easy/cheap things. My dentist made mouth molds for tooth whitener. $80 for molds that last forever, buy the cheap refills on Amazon. Done. And what a dramatic difference two treatments makes.
The nose is a little much, but work with it. I started parting my bowl-cut hair in 8th grade. Read that dudes with a big snoz shouldn't do that, part on the side. Stuff like that.
They're not fat, so there's not that to overcome. Nice chin and hands, smile and mouth. Take his/her ass outside and move around. A little color and muscle tone is easy with quick results.
You look good (to yourself), you feel good, confidence comes out. Had a roommate in college put on a shirt and tie, for an algebra test. The hell? "I look good, I feel good, I do better on the test." That stuck with me.
tl;dr: Frustrating hearing people call themselves ugly. I've rarely seen a truly ugly person. Almost everyone can be at least modestly attractive, easily and cheaply.
Yeah. 99% the reason this dude isnt attractive is because his hair screams "I barely put effort to even shampoo this" and his clothing looks like he just gets whatever comfortable thing he sees first. And maybe the glasses.
Iirc - this dude made a video about being ugly. Then the chick in the 2nd pic was like idk ur kinda cute tho in the comments... then they started chatting / dating -- maybe married?
Gotta follow at least one of the two rules
Be attractive
Don't be unattractive
I can fix him ass comment
Hard to be sure with the image quality, but it looks like he's got decent skin too. You're right though, it's really mostly how you wear yourself. Like jazz, there aren't really wrong notes, you just have to accentuate them right.
to this day, I find 15 million merits to be one of the most terrifying episodes.
Would you sell your soul for a peaceful life?
I don't know about you but I can't answer that question. And it terrifies me.
I have legit lost sleep over the first quote from "they thought they were free" listed here:
https://www.facinghistory.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/Reading_Do_You_Take_the_Oath.pdf
Which part is the first quote
I can answer it pretty easily:
Right now? No. My life is not 100% perfect, but it's maintainable and enjoyable.
If I was at rock bottom? My soul is getting auctioned off to the highest bidder.
What an amazing new template lmao
If I remember correctly, in that video he admits having sex with 17 years old girl, while he was like 22 or 23.
He is Swedish. The age of consent in Sweden is 15. So there is nothing to "admit" here except that he might have been quite successful in hitting on girls all along.
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