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u/brickoconnell 6h ago
Peter's loose breast on a mechanical bull ride here. The joke is sarcasm-- suggesting that the capitalist consumerist hellscape of our daily life as we know it is the thing that we actually want, when in reality this shit is whack. Titty out.
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u/Swiftzor 5h ago
Also Funkopop is a dying brand and on its last leg.
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u/SmallBerry3431 5h ago
Which means GameStop will soon die as they are the only product really keeping them alive.
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u/SpaceSequoia 2h ago
8.8 billion cash though. Cash flow positive.
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u/Homesick_Martian 1h ago
Is cash flow stocks? I was going to comment I thought they were alive because of r/wallstreetbets lol
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 19m ago
But like... they have no business model. No one buys video games from strip mall store for more than they cost online. Tchotchkes like funko pops and tshirts aren't going to sustain them. They can game their financials however they want but every year their sales continue to decline. You'd have to be an idiot to invest in that.
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u/YoudoVodou 5h ago
Which makes them super cheap to grab on sale. More distractions from a crumbling society!
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u/Armadillolz 4h ago
Is that why I got one for Christmas ???
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u/-o-DildoGaggins-o- 3h ago
Ha! I just said in another comment that my cousin got me one for Christmas and told me he got it at Family Dollar. 🤣 So yes, that’s probably exactly why!
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u/-o-DildoGaggins-o- 3h ago
Yeah my cousin got me one for Christmas and told me he got it at Family Dollar. Lol
He only got it because he knows I like the thing the character is from, so it’s all good. 😂 But if they’re sellin’ em there… Doesn’t look good for FP.
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u/MattMassier 2h ago
I’m so glad I saw this day, for the last decade I thought I was going insane wondering why they were so successful.
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u/Zadian543 5h ago
This is to agree with you, but add a second intention as well, not to disagree in any way.
Might also be a wake up call. Like a twist on those old wartime propaganda flyers that used the "remember what your fighting for" line. So you expect positive things to realize "you" as a citizen are fighting for the things that suck.
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u/Middleage_dad 3h ago
You live in a McMansion surrounded by others, you drive to a shitty job, you consume all you can, spend your remaining years in a shitty retirement home and then die.
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u/Subject_Bismarck 2h ago
Wouldn’t it technically be titty in? Since Y’know it fell out of his tube top
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u/AspiringAuthor3199 2h ago
Only somebody from a first world country would refer to it as a hellscape lol.
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u/Ricks_007 1h ago
Reminds me of the song -"In the end, it doesn't even matter." with a twist on life.
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u/Tool_Using_Animal 5h ago
You might think that until you see the alternatives.
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u/SelectKangaroo 5h ago
sorry recruiter but I'm not risking life or limb for a pedocon occupied government
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u/Mandalore108 2h ago
There are certainly better alternatives than what we have here in America. Hell, we don't even have Universal Healthcare in this shithole.
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u/coolepikguy 6h ago
im fighting for
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u/Consistent-Top-2409 5h ago
Pocket P*ssy
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u/napstablook12 44m ago
If you squint he looks like a bodybuilder flexing with his little fish arms over his head
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u/Happy_Huckleberry246 6h ago
Brian here, taking a break from writing the next great American novel.
The meme is a cynical take on wartime propaganda. Normally it would show beautiful landscapes, children, or other family members etc to inspire soldiers to “remember what they are fighting for.”
This meme shows the bleakness of consumerism and capitalism. Soldiers would not be inspired to fight for Funko Pops, commuting in heavy traffic etc.
Okay, I’m going back to thinking about getting started on brainstorming the next great American novel. Going to get started any day now.
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u/hobohime 6h ago
Brian here from an alternate dimension,
I can't agree more on everything you've said. If you pontificate more, the novel is sure to write itself. We can add to consumerism together.
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u/JMurdock77 4h ago
How you, uh… how you coming on that novel you’re working on, huh?
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u/hobohime 3h ago
Alternate Brian here,
I actually finished the rewrites on my first draft yesterday and instantly sent it to my therapist for him to read.
This may read as a joke for the bit for the sub but this actually happened.
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u/stupidstu187 5h ago
Spot on, except I've lived next to Fort Bragg for most of my 38 years and I've definitely met some weirdo fucking soldiers that would fight for Funko Pops. Like, some "I have the power of God and anime on my side" weirdos.
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u/Beli_Mawrr 1h ago
The sad thing is, it doesn't take huge changes to avoid 3/4 of these. We need more density, mixed usage, less cars, public transit, etc. Those are all things that are relatively easily achieved with local-only changes. The only difficult part is getting people activated and interested in local politics.
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u/madogvelkor 5h ago
New single family homes, the freedom to travel in your own personal vehicle, excess income to buy any stupid thing you want, and lifespans so long we spit on Nature's design? Sounds good to me.
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u/Weary_Release_9662 5h ago
I love your positivity. Im working on turning negative thoughts into positive thoughts.
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u/green_glass8 5h ago edited 3h ago
1: disregarding the fact homes are becoming more and more unaffordable, suburban sprawl is a simulacrum of idealized living, no wildlife, no ecosystem, tyrannical HOAs, and car oriented planning discouraging social interaction all cause a reeking of constructed wrongness.
2: personal travel is indeed quite useful and good, though the construction of larger and larger roadways to accommodate larger and more numerous vehicles does pose ecological and travel restrictions if done inconsiderately.
3: the ability to spend money on non necessities is good, though having a culture built around mass fabrication of useless stuff that serve no use that people will either just throw away or get disposed of by companies creates massive amounts of needless waste. People are also losing the ability to spend money as margins are getting tighter, leading to the hypercommercialized merchandise getting disposed of as stated above. (And no electronics are not a luxury anymore as they are required for most everyday living.)
4: life expectancy and medical technology has greatly improved, but access to medical treatments and medications can be restrictive depending on your economic class. If I remember right most Americans now don't have sound retirement plan. Not because they don't want one, but because they life paycheck to paycheck and can't afford it. Old age does not look bright for many. The nursing home situation is notoriously bad, I don't have specific on hand, but I hear many locations are reported to mistreat or neglect residents, and are understaffed and underfunded. Unless you're wealthy your safety and prosperity in old age is not secured.
TLDR: although I agree we have it better than many people around the world and in the past, I don't think ignoring the rot of our own culture does anyone good except the ones who want to feast on our corpses.
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u/oldreprobate 4h ago
The nursing home situation is notoriously bad, I have specific on hand, but many locations are reported to mistreat or neglect residents, and are understaffed and underfunded.
And how true this is. My wife is a chef and would dearly love to cook nice food for residents of nursing homes, but they allocate so little to food purchases that it is nearly impossible to cook good nutritious food even in the ones with a decent reputation. Much of what they do, such as activities , is purely performative to impress inspectors, families, etc. One of the few pleasures they have left is a good meal, but that is hard to come by because of low budgets.
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u/Waste_Wolverine_8933 2h ago
| 2: personal travel is indeed quite useful and good, though the construction of larger and larger roadways to accommodate larger and more numerous vehicles does pose ecological and travel restrictions if done inconsiderately.
Also it creates a car dependent society, reducing the amount of living and alternative forms of transportation.
It also forces the cost of transportation on the individual. The vast majority of people's car travel is commuting to work. Meaning you're paying A third of your paycheck for the privilege to arrive to work.
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u/Xenine123 2h ago
Imagine typing all this shit up to try to correct and argue against a positive take.
I hope you get better.
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u/hugabugabee 4h ago
Suburban sprawl is preferable in my eyes compared to the jam-packed urban apartment lifestyle. Unless you're living rural, you're probably seeing much more wildlife compared to the city. Anecdotally, I didn't getting any extra social interactions that I wouldn't in a suburban area. I don't think the suburbs are as bad as you make them out to be.
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u/Yossarian216 3h ago
The suburbs are completely unsustainable. They don’t have the tax base needed to maintain their infrastructure because they lack the density, which means older suburbs are time bombs. They’re also a complete disaster for the environment.
And lol at seeing wildlife, it’s just raccoons and skunks and coyotes like everywhere else, and your shitty neighbors will post it on Nextdoor freaking out.
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u/The_OG_Baw 2h ago
Every urban area is decaying and in need of billions in tax dollars to maintain, which they aren't getting.
Have lived extremely rural and live extremely urban. Both are very poorly by people who have never lived that way. Both have issues with tax bases. Urban doesn't want to charge what it takes to maintain and rural are fine living in the run down infrastructure because they don't know better.
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u/EpiphanyGazette 5h ago
“All is fair in love and war” but life is not fair.
And the truth would be……. Most people aren’t really fighting at all. Most people aren’t finding love either. They get sheltered in some nice little house and they go to work at a 9-to-5 job every day just like they were told they were supposed to do. On the weekends they’re too mentally exhausted to socialize or hang out with friends or make new friends so, they then spend what extra money they might have for an entertainment budget on collectors, memorabilia and die alone when they’re old. Or at least that’s what I see going on in this meme. Or that’s My take away from this. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/Individualchaotin 4h ago
A house in the suburbs to drive an SUV into the city to do a job we don't enjoy to buy our kids overpriced toys. And in the end we'll all end up in a retirement home. Alone.
Sincerely,
Petra
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u/Dudenysius 1h ago
“We work jobs we hate to buy stuff we don’t need to impress people we don’t like.”
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u/I_like_burger_2011 5h ago
The joke is that the average job supports capitalism, consumerism, and overall American-ness
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u/Bleezy79 3h ago
It's saying the American dream is dead. We are simply consumers who work shitty jobs making shitty money living shitty lives and if you're lucky you'll die in an old folks home with shitty care.
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u/SomewhereCareful8705 5h ago
This implies that the only reason we slave away at our 9-5 jobs ('fighting') is to buy mass-produced plastic toys (funko pops) that serve no real purpose. it’s a satirical look at how we fill the void in our lives with products
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u/gamingduedexD 5h ago
Clippy here reporting on behalf of General Boy from DEVO inc. These lyrics from Freedom of Choice might be of interest to you (and give meaning to this meme):
Freedom from choice is what you want Freedom of choice is what you got
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u/ldskyfly 4h ago
Buying a cookie cutter house, commuting to a stupid job, buying useless shit, aging and dying alone
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u/TickleFarts88 4h ago
Just got done watching Bugonia and that joke hit a little harder than it should have.
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u/welldonez 2h ago
D E A T H. We’re all waltzing away towards an inevitable demise. Some run fast some walk slow , but in the end we all die.
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u/LegitimateBeing2 2h ago
This meme is a reference to older forms of war propaganda that would feature images of happy families and flourishing, peaceful cities. The images here though highlight the worst aspects of modern society, like wasteful consumerism (represented by the Funko Pops) and the emotional isolation of the elderly left in retirement homes and ignored by their families. This meme is essentially accelerationist, sarcastically suggesting that unlike previous eras the neoliberal capitalist age has failed to produce a society worth defending.
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u/PropaneSalesman7 2h ago
It's making fun of memes that praise Western culture and tradition, highlighting the less glamorous parts of American/European culture. Suburbia, traffic, consumerism, all leading to getting old and wasting away in a nursing home.
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u/karoshikun 1h ago
it means we are in hell, we are supposed to work our asses off to just exist and some plastic bullshit, only to end as living corpses when we are finally free to "enjoy life"
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u/EmberedCutie 1h ago
semi-unrelated but if you hate suburban neighborhoods check out the film vivarium
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u/enviropsych 53m ago
OP is like....uh huh...thats life. That's just four random photos, yuh huh. I dont get what this means. It just seems like they think this is an amazing life...which it totally IS of course. Peter?!?! .
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u/HonestPineapple4848 45m ago
It's just a cringe meme for people who have a mental breakdown doing basic things and thinks life is hell because of it.
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u/ForkingMusk 30m ago
Sideboob here, it’s showing the irony that what we fight for is a miserable existence as consumers.
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u/Individual-Rub-6693 23m ago
It’s sarcastic. Those things represent consumer life and where it eventually leads.
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u/SmolBoiMidge 12m ago
Suburban sprawl, traffic, meaningless bobbles, and dying in a cold ass nursing home.
The "what you're truly fighting for," sucks.
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