One comment in a meme group changed how I see those 'nobody: ' jokes

I used to roll my eyes at the 'nobody: ' format because it felt lazy. Then a guy named Jake in a Facebook meme page for Tacoma owners wrote a whole breakdown on how the silence before the joke is actually the setup. He said it's like a pause in a conversation that makes the punchline hit harder. That one reply from a stranger at 2am made me actually appreciate the structure, any other meme formats people used to hate?

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cora_scott776d ago

Heres another format I used to hate but now totally get nice guys finishing last but thats a whole different kind of punchline.

jessica_hall496d ago

Honestly, my buddy Dave at work does this same thing with jokes in the break room. He'll just stand there for like two full seconds before dropping the punchline and it kills every time. That silence is basically a drum roll but without the drums. It's the same reason people pause before saying something important in real life, it forces you to actually listen. So yeah, Jake from the Tacoma group was onto something real.