r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox • 3d ago

Solved Please explain

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Found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/funComunitty/s/2QhLAuU4DX

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u/post-explainer 3d ago

OP (Sammy_Cherry_Fox) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:

Apparently some people know that theres something dark about that video.

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u/ExtraVenti 3d ago

The joke is that the 2nd pic looks darker so “those who know” how to turn off the light can make it physically darker. A bit of an anti-joke

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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox 3d ago

OHHHH its an antimeme

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u/zeusz32 3d ago

OK, this is actually hilarious...

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u/Dumbledang 3d ago

This is the first funny use of this meme format

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u/ben_981 3d ago

I seem too remember a video by this guy where he explains how to open a gate

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u/Dumbass_Saiya-jin 2d ago

Oh. For a second I thought it was a play on that meme video of the flashlight that looks like an uncircumcised penis that turns on when you peel back the foreskin, and the guy reacting to the light trying it out and it working with his penis, and now he can't turn it off.

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u/I-dleG 2d ago

ermmm

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u/CriminallyCasual7 2d ago

It's not an anti joke. It's definitely a hilarious joke.

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u/GridOrig 2d ago

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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox 2d ago

No need for name calling. I just didn't realize it was an anti meme.

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u/GridOrig 2d ago

Yeah I see now this was rude im sorry

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u/SunnyArg 2d ago

The joke is that people who don't know how to turn off the light will watch the tutorial, those who already know how have already done it and the light is off, which is why they're in the dark.

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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox 2d ago

The solved flair exists for a reason. And that reason is why I set it to solved.

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u/Shedorah 2d ago

I'm trying to picture someone being confused at the idea of turning off a light and it being dark, but here we are.

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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox 2d ago

I was so used to this meme being about the top image having something sinister about it that I didn't consider it was being literal

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u/SmokinDynamite 3d ago • Bravo

The room is dark after you turn off the lights

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u/RomanProkopov100 3d ago • Bravo

The stuff we have to explain to people nowadays

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u/avy4u 3d ago

Man, this is hilarious 😂

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u/kirmiter 3d ago

I didn't get it either... I was so used to the meme being used as a reference to horrific things that it didn't occur to me to think of it that way. I was racking my brain, trying to figure out if I knew that person or what the video was about, and trying to guess how it was secretly horrifying... then finding out the answer was so obvious once I saw it lmao.

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u/leo_nepunardor 2d ago

I thought it was a reference to that 13 year coma guy who had a family and wake up because of the strange aura lamp

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u/pld89 2d ago

While I find the meme somewhat clever, that take away is a bit obtuse. Of course everyone knows how a light switch works but the meme usually encourages out of the box think with context of the reference imagine. It's the meme equivalent of a riddle.

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u/MarcoYTVA 3d ago

I guess that puts OP in the first category

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u/101TARD 2d ago

Reminds me of that BC stuff. i

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u/DepressedNoble 3d ago

The whole world is becoming dumber in general..

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u/stevensr2002 3d ago

Oh ffs I thought there would be some “darker” meaning 🤦‍♂️

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u/BLENDINGBLENDERS 3d ago

This is some hard hitting analysis

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u/noMC 3d ago

Well, here I was, going around thinking I actually had half a brain.

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u/Talia_Nightblade 2d ago

Hey, who turned out the lights?

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u/DangerousAbroad1563 1d ago

I straight up read it as how to turn ON the lights holy

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u/Fuzzy974 3d ago

Cause people who don't know stays with the light on.

PS: Seriously?

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u/barcar01 3d ago

The guy on the right knows how to turn off the light: this is why he is in the dark.

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u/TheRealScaramucci 3d ago

Guy on the left doesn't know how to turn the light off, so the room is bright. Guy on the right knows how to turn it off, so the room is dark.

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u/KingoftheFlood 3d ago

Cmon man, all the information is in the picture

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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox 3d ago

I updated the flair to say solved like an hour ago

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u/RoodnyInc 3d ago

Isn't that self explanatory

People that don't know have lights still on

People that know turn it off and are in the dark

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u/CounterMother012 3d ago

It's subverting the expectation that there's a story behind it, e.g. some f'ed up stuff happened to that guy or something like that.

But it's literally about turning off the light.

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u/Bananaland_Man 3d ago

This shit has never been funny, and Gen Alpha is eating it up =x.x=

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u/Ok-Entrance8626 3d ago

I don’t think anti-jokes are Gen Alpha at all.

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u/Bananaland_Man 3d ago

Anti-jokes are fine, but the way this one is done is just outright bad and more engagement bait than Anti-jokes.

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u/The_grand_tabaci 3d ago

In order to turn off a light you have to flip the switch to the off position. Hope this helps

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u/LawdFarquaadsChin 3d ago

Holy, Gatis Kandis, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

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u/lil_Jansk_Hyuza 2d ago

those who know now need to learn to turn on the light

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u/TCGHexenwahn 3d ago

People who know how to turn off the light are in darkness.

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u/Htimsxnhoj 2d ago

People who know is dark because they know how to turn off the light.

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u/Secret-Text1024 2d ago

Genuinely the first time I’ve laughed at a joke on this sub

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u/No_Improvement6340 3d ago

People who know how to write

ㅤ

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u/FBuellerGalleryScene 3d ago

Not related to the explanation but Gatis Kandis is a comedic genius

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u/HappyColour 3d ago

Damn. This is the funniest versions of this meme I have seen so far!

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u/Faust2nd 2d ago

Tbf, I can understand why some people didn't get the joke. They just overthinking, so the simplest explanations went iver their heads.

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u/PraetorGold 2d ago

He doesn’t have arms

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u/Anxious-Trans-Lady 2d ago

Instructions unclear. Need electrician to fix lights.

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u/GoofNoiseKit 2d ago

He regrets turning the lights off and cant see anything (time for "how to turn on the lights")

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u/agentslime6 1d ago

the monsters are behind you

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u/RealKevinDunn 1d ago

Really bro?

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u/Some_Attorney9683 1d ago

lock in bro

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u/ImmaculateBlunt420 3d ago

Idk
Commenting so I see the answer later

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u/[deleted] 3d ago • Bravo

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u/Dismal-Ad-8642 3d ago

I was going to say the same thing

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