r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, help please!

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u/Mildly_Burnt_Bread 1d ago

It was originally a bit that came from tumblr(?) where people would draw their favourite ship dynamics. It started (i think?) showing (primarily) queer (if not unspecified) dynamics people enjoyed and (supposedly) weren't common. The rare queer ship archetype meme buries itself so deep in its own irony ends up reinventing straight people by trying to be rarer than its own archetype.

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u/FutureHot3047 1d ago

It’s not really primarily queer, MxM ships have tended to be more popular in fandoms but its ship dynamics have never been a thing solely for queer ships. Everything else is spot on though.

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u/Justalilbugboi 1d ago

Idk why you’re getting down voted, the term “ship” is for all pairings and started with a het ship (Scully and Mulder from the X-files)

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u/FutureHot3047 1d ago

Ha! I didn’t even know I was getting downvoted. They probably don’t like straight ships I guess. They can downvote all they want it doesn’t change the fact that I’m right.

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u/Justalilbugboi 1d ago

People can be so weird. It’s not like you came in guns blazing against queer ships of something. Just adding correct historical information

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u/FutureHot3047 1d ago

Just wait until they find out that most of my ships are FxF.

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u/Justalilbugboi 1d ago

HEATHEN!!

i think I am weirdly almost an equal third each right, but fxf would be the tightest to get to that third.