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Sr. Pelo COMEDY deconstruction (originally on YouTube)

I may be an idiot but I think I understand. It's a critique of internet joke culture. The internet is such that every joke is just a regurgitation of what came before, otherwise known as a meme. Perhaps it was once a joke that had structure and a purpose made by a single person. But now it has been sliced and broken down into its most basic elements so that it can be chopped and changed into different scenarios to try and make it 'new' again. Eventually these pieces are combined with pieces of other memes of a similar nature to create 'new' jokes. Look at the first guy slapping the screen, it's on a green screen, it's a 'joke' that by itself has no context, no punchline, its value is only given by latching itself onto another joke or image to have any true entertainment value. Eventually more and more of these jokes/memes/amalgamations are made, twisting the original until the bones of the joke snap and the original meaning is lost beyond a gurgle of broken teeth and blood. But we still laugh at it. Sometimes we don't know why we laugh at it because of shock or maybe it is reminding us of the original joke. Perhaps it is just the surprise of seeing an old joke appear unexpectedly, but it's still the same joke. Every goddamn day we go online, we watch our videos, scroll through our feeds sometimes for no other reason than to see these "jokes". But why shouldn't we, they make us smile, they're easy to digest, but only so long as they target those that aren't me (race/gender/culture/religion/etc), as long as the joke is not laughing at me or my beliefs, because then it's no longer funny having this 'joke' spread about me and it causes me to think. These 'new' 'jokes' don't require much attention, they don't pull our focus or think for long enough for us to realize that we're just seeing the same goddamn thing over and over and over and over and over and over until eventually we realize it's just a boring/distasteful joke that outlasted its welcome and we let it die. Us. We are the man in the audience of the stand up bar, or at least only those of us who get most of our humor from memes. We are the ones bolted down in order to see these hideous forms of what were once jokes being told by a man who could just be giving us stuff he's accumulated from other old 'jokes' that made him laugh. Now you may say that you can just not go online, not consume this media. But be real, do you really think you could resist looking at memes all day? All week? All month? All year? You're just as trapped as the man in the video. Memes, they're ubiquitous, apart of our culture. Eventually you'll see people in the real world referencing an internet meme and now you're out of the loop, looking from the outside in. But you don't want to be out of the loop, you've put so much of your life into being in touch with internet humor that you don't want to feel behind. So you keep scrolling, you laugh, maybe not as hard as you wished to laugh but you make yourself believe that you're laughing more than you are. Over time you'll just turn into a mouth-piece for these memes since surely if it made you laugh, then others will laugh too, maybe they will, but you're not clever for it. Those of us watching this video are that man in the bar... sitting alone at a table... surrounded by faceless laughing spectators on the internet who we will never see the real face of, all we know is that they're hopefully laughing at this too. Is that the type of life you want to lead? Is this cheap entertainment really all you want to consume? You laugh, you fall into a trance of scrolling or watching for hours, you escape to do necessities and the cycle starts all over again (Laugh, Die, Resurrect, Eat, Repeat). Run while you still can. Or maybe it's just a funny video Sr Pelo gave to us. I may be an idiot, after all.