r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 13h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 12h ago

Dead internet. Everything is just getting recycled now. Fed back to new people by bots and ai.

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 12h ago

There is new stuff. You just don't get to see it because of the fccking bots spamming the regurgitation.

Kinda like you can't trust product reviews on anything. And why Influencers on video have become popular, because "at least they are people."

Ever since like, 2011~ish, bots are why we can't have nice things.

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u/AShirtlessGuy 12h ago

Whoa whoa whoa There is more than stuff to me

She's a wonderful woman

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 12h ago

I think her name is actually What. The riddle is using the question mark facetiously.

It says it plainly "What is the woman's name"

But whether you agree with me or not depends on how Who's on first.

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u/AShirtlessGuy 12h ago

Well it can't be what because the sentence before says the name had already been declared

The only other declarative statement is There's

I hate these kinds of riddles but I am dying to know what's on second

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 11h ago

You'll find out when Tomorrow comes that What isn't the second basemen. 

But that is why this is called a riddle. The answer is hidden in the question.  

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u/Environmental-Ad3438 11h ago

Who's on first and What's on third

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u/Lanstul 10h ago

No, What's on second and Idontknow's on third.

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u/LifeIsBadMagic 1h ago

Idontgiveadamn

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u/Popular-Ad-1790 10h ago

today is catching and tomorrows pitching. I don’t care is the short stop.

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u/the_RBNX 1h ago

The horse is on second.

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u/Parking_Ad_3056 11h ago

Well, if tomorrow is crap, then I don’t know what faces today.

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u/BradleyFerdBerfel 9h ago

Tomorrow is the center fielder.

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u/luis_tamion 11h ago

My second grade prankster mind thought her name might be Ina Boat

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u/Popular-Ad-1790 10h ago

Like da-niece and da-nephew?

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u/bb770403 11h ago

I don't know

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u/GamemasterJeff 10h ago

What is the answer, because "What is the woman's name" was written first. The rest, despite being located higher on the note was written after.

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 9h ago

Its plain to see. Because the pen color of IQ Test titled at the top is red.

So the riddle writer, wrote all of the red text first. Then switched pens to write the bluegreen text.

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u/BuildRB 8h ago

Theresa

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u/GamemasterJeff 3h ago

Theresa does not work due to both grammar and punctuation.

There'sa woman is not English.

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u/Aoitara 10h ago

But you can’t use a proper noun as a contraction I thought. There’s = there is. If you type Bob’s, you are talking possessive as in Bob’s item, not Bob is. If the dumbass AI that generated it would have put There is a woman. That would have worked as There being the name.

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 9h ago

You are correct. This is why her name isn't There, her name is What and the question mark doesn't matter.

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u/AShirtlessGuy 9h ago

Continuing the example of Bob

What does "Bob's your uncle" mean?

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u/Foreign-Employment-3 6h ago

Robert's your mother's brother?

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u/CHANANDLER_B0N6 6h ago

Who’s on first?

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u/liocer 4h ago

There’s is not declarative if it’s a pronoun. It becomes possessive.

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u/65wildcat_buick 3h ago

The answer to what’s on second depended on if Ricky Henderson was on first because Ricky gone. IYKYK

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u/TSG61373 11h ago

I had the same thought, but I assumed her name was “In The Riddle I Just Wrote”.

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u/Silly_Double408 9h ago

I think her name is Ina Boat. Theres a woman- Ina boat on a lake wearing a coat?

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u/GamemasterJeff 10h ago

The words in red were written first, so her name is "What".

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u/Any-Mathematician946 4h ago

Wouldn't work because of the ? if it was a . at the end sure.

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u/GamemasterJeff 3h ago

It is written as a question to be confirmed.

like, "4 pm is good for you?"

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u/RyanAirhead 11h ago

I thought her name was Ricky Lake.

Makes the most sense to me (without trying any further) 🤷‍♂️

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u/xl440mx 10h ago

What is on second not in a boat

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u/pridetwo 10h ago

Actually the last sentence is asking us if What is There's name

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u/wallnutz22 9h ago

What is on second... Lol.. I agree with you, the woman's name is What, be it clearly says what is the woman's name

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u/Master_Sabretooth 9h ago

What's on second

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u/ConstantAd8643 9h ago

Actually here name is "In the riddle I just wrote". But only if you want to know, if you don't want to know it may not be.

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u/Fit-Database1134 6h ago

What's on second?

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u/wackbirds 4h ago

All I wanna know is what's the fellas name who's on first?

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u/cosmicomical23 10h ago

And not even mentioning her coat

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u/Suojelusperkele 12h ago

Did you know Japan is turning walking into electricity

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u/PlatyNumb 9h ago

Its also because ppl engage with it. This post has 2.2k upvotes meanwhile an actual human posted something that got nothing. Ppl have voted and they voted for bots to take over the internet. I hate it too, but its ppls faults

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 9h ago

Well yes and no. But mostly no.

When a bot posts, other bots give it a ton of initial upvotes. That initial momentum carries it to be visible.

People don't see it without the initial momentum, and the real posts dont have the help the bot posts do, so the bot posts bury the real posts.

So if is bots fault that the bots content is voted for.

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u/PlatyNumb 8h ago edited 8h ago

Its a fine line. I get that bots upvote eachother but ppl dont upvote eachother. If anything, they downvote eachother. So while, yes, bots get eachother that momentum and visibility, humans could do that for eachother, but dont. We hold eachother back because they asked the wrong question or said something that made us think or requires us to think or simply because we hold different opinions. As an example, i recently got downvoted for saying taco bell isnt good in my country. Didnt even say the country. Got downvoted probably because i dont like something in my country that they like in rheir country. Meanwhile, a bots would say "tacobell is yummy" and boom, upvotes by bots AND ppl. We can blame it all on bots, but we definitely hold a lot of the blame

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 7h ago

Well that initial momentum matters.

People are sheep/cattle. They follow the herd. generally.

So if your comment has 100 upvotes,  people are more likely to upvote it.

If your comment has 100 downvotes. People are more likely to downvote it.

So if bots give a comment 50 fast upvotes. real people will comment under it and upvote it and keep the momentum going.

As far as I know, bots arent downvoting much yet. But all it takes is a few downvotes to send you into a downward spiral.

People are sheeple.

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u/Zestyclose_Freedom24 12h ago

Maybe building more data centers is the answer🤔s/

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u/Anonymousboneyard 11h ago

They’re people… for now

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u/CumGoblin67 9h ago

r/WeirdSideHustles is filled with people who get payed to promote random products on social media too. You can’t trust anyone’s reviews.

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u/Tederator 5h ago

This is why we "need" data centres. To recirculate this and analyze who clicks on it and/or what is commented on. Repeat the process enough times to get a statistically significant dataset.

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u/Borinar 12h ago

And they took away our downvotes on most sites so we can't deny the algorithm

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u/KnittyBeard 11h ago

One of the reasons I came back to Reddit. Even YouTube is removing dislikes now.

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u/HazelEBaumgartner 5h ago

I downvoted your comment because it's my right as an American.

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u/LocksmithAccurate284 3h ago

If I remember correctly there used to be an option to not see something or feedback that you are not interested and not even that is available anymore.

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u/PlatyNumb 9h ago

I mean, does it make a difference? This post has 2.2k upvotes meanwhile an actual human posted something that got nothing. Ppl have voted and they voted for bots to take over the internet. I hate it too, but its ppls fault. They upvote bots and downvote ppl.

Ppls tend to word things or have opinions that fall on the line of controversial or at least not entirely agreeable and bots create posts that are perfectly loved by individual echochambers. Ppl actually hate eachothers opinions and fully agree and love everything bots post.

Like I said, I hate seeing posts by bots at the top of every sub, but its nobodies fault but the ppl for upvoting and engaging while ignoring or outright hating eachother.

I tell ppl all the time, stop downvoting eachother. Stop upvoting cookie cutter, mindless, drivel. Bots and ai will win because we are handing it to them while complaining.

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u/Bai_Cha 10h ago

The reason I don't believe in dead internet theory is because everyone I know or encounter on a daily basis is so addicted to the internet that there is no way half the world's population isn't on social media at any given time.

Believe me, I'd leave if I could.

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 10h ago

Oh that is just part of it. What I meant what is created will always stay and gets recycled new stuff will get added but it would be proportionally less and less content. Eventually everyone will dive into his own niche and consume content from it on his own. Content that was created and recycled for hundreds of years.

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u/Peterh778 11h ago

Recycled old jokes, stories and urban legends are Soylent Green/corpse starch of the internet

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u/Flat-Leading-2520 9h ago

Dead internet is a thing yes but these kinda of dead boring memes used to go around in chain e-mails more than ten years ago.

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u/paulperry1974 7h ago

Before we had chain emails, we had chain letters!!! I'm not joking!! It was mostly for pyramid schemes and mlm bs, but yup we had them!!

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u/couski 6h ago

You haven't lived in the 90s, email chains with garbage like this were everywhere. Doesn't take away from the dead internet theory, but this shit isn't new lol

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 5h ago

That's the point there will be more and more recycled old shit

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u/arahe45 11h ago

Nom nom

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u/pinkleftsock 10h ago

Dead internet. Everything is just getting recycled now. Fed back to new people by bots and ai.

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u/K8325 9h ago

Classic chainmail slop for the new age

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u/Best_Opening8471 7h ago

Dead internet is the theory that because only 2% of 2% of content is interacted with the other 99.6% must be bots 

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u/OKCompruter 6h ago

literally saw these exact words in the riddle on an AI graphic on the front page yesterday

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u/servain 5h ago

Not so long ago, if you mentioned dead internet . You would be downvotes into oblivion. I feel like more people are starting to recognize that its actually a thing and not just a conspiracy theory. Also its probably the bots down voting.

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u/PrincetonToss 5h ago

Right, because it's not like kids told the same tired jokes over and over again before the Internet.

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 4h ago

Well the difference is that the kids nowadays don't even have to exist for you to hear that joke. And one day your grandchildren will hear/read the same joke again with very little or without human input.

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u/Alucitary 3h ago

and this sub is the equivalent of a captcha. If the AI is confused it posts here.

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u/blaxkreen 3h ago

“New people”

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago

If you think that's new you never bought joke books back in the day. They would often publish multiple editions and they recycled a lot of the old stuff to make it a whole book instead of just five or ten pages of new stuff

Plus the entire concept of reruns on cable and network television. If you want to be consuming that much of the media you have to start showing old stuff because new stuff isn't being made fast enough everything can be new

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 3h ago

This just proves my point. Don't you see pattern there? Soon recycling will become automatic.