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[-] kn33@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

Too many titles spoil the punch line, though. I can't risk it without reading the comic first.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago
[-] BossDj@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

But how many times I've scrolled down to a happy smiling face, I start to smile too, them BAM, title starts: Teen killed when..."

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck... I get shit at work for not reading subjects in emails too.

Had one person put the whole email in the subject to fuck with me. It worked.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Jokes on you, I read the title, forget that I read the title, read the post, then go back and read the title again 😎

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don't get it... How is "too late" the punchline?

[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't get it either, and what order are you supposed to read it? Does the title come first, or at the end?

[-] dukk@programming.dev 19 points 2 weeks ago

read the comic, realize you didn’t read the title, read the title. too late.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't get it until you explained it. Ironically, the people who read titles will have a harder time understanding the comic, because we've read it out-of-order.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I read the title, discarded it from memory because I had no context or meaning for it, read the comic, went back to remind myself what the title is. Now I just feel numb.

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It’s telling the reader they are too late reading the title after being called out for not reading it.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

As someone that reads titles and is therefore the superior romantic match I am immune (to thinking it was funny)

[-] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Also on my lemmy the title of a post is below the image. It would be very strange for someone not to read the image first. This joke is bad.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Kinda hard to miss on the default lemmy UI lol

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't notice the title...but I also misread her as "He reads articles" and that was funnier than the originally intended joke. 🤪

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

He never even had a chance, poor fella.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Most people read the title and not the article. Anyone out there reading articles without reading the title? 🤔

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago

Naw man, I never read the titles of comics. I just like to go in raw yanowaddahmean?

[-] lennee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

inowaddahmean

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Violation on the field, meme is not self-contained... first down vote.

[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] laserm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

In my defense, my app puts titles below images

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] GuyFi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's genius lol

[-] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

So what is this emerging sub-genre of memes called? That rely on the title integrated into the meme itself?

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just a regular "breaking the fourth wall" tactic

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Staaaaaaahp

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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