Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@noiob (and yeah, the timing for this is pretty great, hee)

@noiob that's the thing though! it didn't stand out for me either, and after i started noticing it, it seemed like nobody else did

i think it started to really sink in for me when i heard justin mcelroy say it for probably the thirtieth time in The Besties, and then noticed it wasn't just a justin thing when it was also in a fake magazine cover by action button

and then, i just kinda started noticing it everywhere, like i'd just stepped into a time vortex of this previously invisible in-joke

it has some real "come and get it" energy in how i see the phrase used in ironic contexts all the time, but it's also impossible to pinpoint any examples of it because of its sheer popularity outside of them

except, in this case, the only people who use the phrase ironically seem to almost exclusively be the people it's parodying

it's like a little self-aware joke where the only people who realize it exists are the ones telling it

is there anything else like that?

obsessed with the phrase "we've come a long way since pac-man"

it's like a game reviewer meme, but if you search it up, the only results are ones using it in earnest

it's gonna be cool when i get used to plan 9 because it will mean i have even more extraordinarily-niche muscle memory i can't use anywhere else to add to my collection

@SerenaBeancatte@chitter.xyz sue! suuuuue!

(this rules btw)

@matthilde@lgbt.io this is super-late, but oooh! congratulations ^^

i learned about this though a tilde, and i'm really digging the whole aesthetic; it looks like you've done a really nifty job!

one thing i've always kinda appreciated about april fool's is how it's sometimes used to try things you usually can't!

plausible deniability can be used as one heck of a veil to momentarily break out of the expectations others have for you

a way where you can just say "what if?", and play that reality out for a day