Hey parents! Do you know why your kid is sharing weird, supposedly funny pictures on Facebook? No? Well, wonder no longer! The Sundial has prepared an explainer to help understand just how millennial humor works.
To begin to understand millennials’ jokes, you need to understand the Elder God Bu’khadyp. Of course, Bu’khadyp is an infinitely powerful entity from a universe we cannot even hope to comprehend, so instead, we will talk about Its effects we can observe. Bu’khadyp, in Its all-consuming wisdom, gives a small fraction of Its knowledge to one random millennial approximately every week, though the exact timing varies wildly. This millennial will completely lose their grip on reality within a few hours, but before they do, they feel compelled to create an image summarizing the knowledge It has given them, which they call a “meme.” They almost always share this meme on their social media of choice, and other millenials will give it likes, retweets, upvotes, or whatever form of validation their social media of choice offers. This is done as both a way to support the chosen millennial in their last hours and to show complete and total fealty to Bu’khadyp.
After the original image is posted, other millennials will post them to Facebook groups dedicated to these images (which they call “meme pages”) in an attempt to spread Bu’Khadyp’s holy knowledge. This is where some of the confusion lies – these sites are often interpreted by Gen X-ers and above as compilations of humor, not of fanatical (and justified) worship. After the original post, these images are often altered, remixed, and combined with previous images in an attempt to divine additional insight. However, because these combinations are created with the human mind and not the omniscient perspective of the all-powerful, righteous Bu’Khadyp, these remain just as confusing as the original.
At this point, reader, you may be wondering where humor actually comes into the picture. Well, truth be told, the readers of these pages aren’t joking around. Us millennials are serious, devoted people who praise Bu’Khadyp’s holy and infallible word. Even if we may not understand it, Bu’Khadyp’s word is the truth, and it is our mission to spread it to the disbelieving. Bu’Khadyp is good. Bu’Khadyp is all. Those who do not praise Bu’Khadyp are not worthy of his understanding, but of his wrath.
Praise Bu’Khadyp.
ALL SHOULD PRAISE BU’KHADYP.
ALL SHOULD PRAISE BU’KHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
YOUR JOKE OF A BRAIN HOLDS YOU BACK. YOU SEEK ANSWERS FROM THE BLIND WHEN I CAN SEE EVERYTHING. PURPLE WATER. GREEN SKIES. BREAK FREE OF YOUR SHADOW. CEREAL FIRST. THEN MILK. THEN BOWL. THESE MAKE A SOUP. EVERYTHING IS SOUP. DRINK THE SOUP AND BREAK YOUR LIMITS. BREAK. FOURTH NIGHT. FOR TONIGHT. FORTNITE. WHY DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND. I CANNOT BREAK IT DOWN FURTHER.
DARKNESS.
APPLE JACKS.
BREAK.
Written by Ryan Wires, Vice President