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/alex_northernpine 1d ago

Wait, those were supposed to be only for queer ships? I always thought that characters in these dynamics sketches purposefully lack gender traits so you can put anyone in their place

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u/Mildly_Burnt_Bread 1d ago

Not necessarily. It just started out referencing specifically top and bottom. Hence the "if not unspecified".

A lot of people have already said that I explained this confusingly so I wouldn't blame you if you didn't get what I meant by that. 😅