[ SECRET POST #2196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2196 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 060 secrets from Secret Submission Post #314.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - empty image with a text comment ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why shouldn't their friends just not make references they know OP won't understand?

[(Anonymous)]

Why should they? Especially in a group setting where many poeple are familiar with the referenced topic, no one should make the reference because of the few who don't know it?

If that's the case, no one should make references to anything ever because other people won't know the thing being referenced. Riiiiiiiiight.

[(Anonymous)]

because it's as easy as

friend 1: "meme"

friend 2: "what does that mean"

friend 1: "explains"

friend 2: "ah, thank you. now I know."

bam problem solved

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This past Christmas I took a totally non-Homestuck friend visiting Vancouver from Portland to a Homestuck dance I'd helped organise. I warned her in advance and asked her if she really wanted to go, but it was an Event, with Music and Booty Shaking, and that was something she really wanted to attend.

There were two categories of references she didn't get.

A) Group-specific in-jokes.
"Why are you peeing on everything?!"
"Do all of you say 'I'm so done with this/you/whatever'?!"

B) Homestuck references.
"...What's a kismesis?"
"...Do we really need this much Nicki Minaj at this- wait, seriously? How Do I Live? Seriously?!"

Each of which required about as much explanation.
"Uh, I think L got that off Tumblr and just wouldn't stop saying it and I picked it up?"
"So this one time C had this picture of a really unhappy owl in the front of her engineering textbook and it looked like it was really done with life."
"It's like a hatesex thing, but a whole relationship."
"I apologise for my fandom's taste in pop music."

It's not like she needed to read 198345039847 pages of comic to be able to socialise even with fifty-odd Homestuck fans she'd never met before. If you can't hang out with ten people you've known for years because you don't immediately get all of their fandom references, maybe they're just douchebags.