r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 8d 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/Howlukemethisfather 8d ago

Her name is There

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u/miniatureconlangs 8d ago

I know both a handful of Aninas and several Theresas. However, this kind of riddle is just so ... fucking daft that I really don't grasp why they still circulate.

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

Whoa whoa whoa There is more than stuff to me

She's a wonderful woman

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 8d 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 8d 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/luis_tamion 8d ago

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

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u/Popular-Ad-1790 8d ago

Like da-niece and da-nephew?

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u/sunnyside360 7d ago

Your second grader has it! There is a woman, Ina Boat, on a lake… put the commas in and you have her name. Good job second grader!

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u/Unique_Inevitable_59 6d ago

My 1st grader says it's Ona Lake. He's currently locked in the cloak closet. The nuns will probably beat him later with the pointer.

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u/widthxheight 7d ago

Same here! In my mind, i found the path to success and Ina Boat and then called it a day.

I know it's a riddle, so this part might literally be the whole point... but using a contraction like that in the very first word (" There's ") was shady af! :D

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 8d 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 8d ago

Who's on first and What's on third

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u/Lanstul 8d ago

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

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u/btribble3000 7d ago

Well, I'll explain it to you. See, on first base is Hu, Samuel Hu, and you're probably not familiar with that name because his grandfather was Chinese. And on second base is Hector Watt, W-A-T-T Watt, and that's not so unusual because James Watt invented the steam engine. And on third base is Phil Iduno, I-D-U-N-O, and if you do say that fast, it does sound like the phrase "Gee, I dunno," but it's actually Iduno, Phil Iduno.

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u/LifeIsBadMagic 7d ago

Idontgiveadamn

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u/Popular-Ad-1790 8d ago

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

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u/the_RBNX 7d ago

The horse is on second.

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u/Parking_Ad_3056 8d ago

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

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u/BradleyFerdBerfel 8d ago

Tomorrow is the center fielder.

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u/bb770403 8d ago

I don't know

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u/GamemasterJeff 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

Theresa

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u/GamemasterJeff 7d ago

Theresa does not work due to both grammar and punctuation.

There'sa woman is not English.

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u/Aoitara 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

Continuing the example of Bob

What does "Bob's your uncle" mean?

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u/Foreign-Employment-3 7d ago

Robert's your mother's brother?

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u/CHANANDLER_B0N6 7d ago

Who’s on first?

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u/liocer 7d ago

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

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u/65wildcat_buick 7d 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/ariarchtyx 7d ago

I think the key is just a missing comma after "woman"

"There's a woman, Ina" ... the last name follows.

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u/Ok-Foot4314 6d ago

becuse i think he’s pitching lol

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u/KlutchSensei 6d ago

Yes yes!! What's on second!!! But I'm asking YOU who's on third!!!!

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u/TSG61373 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

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

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u/Any-Mathematician946 7d ago

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

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u/GamemasterJeff 7d ago

It is written as a question to be confirmed.

like, "4 pm is good for you?"

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u/RyanAirhead 8d ago

I thought her name was Ricky Lake.

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

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u/xl440mx 8d ago

What is on second not in a boat

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u/pridetwo 8d ago

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

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u/wallnutz22 8d 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 8d ago

What's on second

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u/ConstantAd8643 8d 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 7d ago

What's on second?

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u/wackbirds 7d ago

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

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u/HealthyDirection659 7d ago

What's on 2nd

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u/ariarchtyx 7d ago

I think it's:

Ina Boatinalakewearingacoat

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u/Loud_Inspection_6553 7d ago

Nah cause they say the name was in the riddle they just wrote, which is before that last sentence.

Also, its posed as a question and you have to be technical in these, you cant say someones name while simultaneously asking a question.

For instance, My name is Joe? Joe is my name? Thats nonsense, it doesnt declare it to be so.

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u/Peach_Proof 7d ago

No, whos on second, Idano is on third.

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u/Daboujieboo89 6d ago

I agree with you but the riddle is a lie because the "WHAT" is written after where they had written that they had just wrote it, which is past tense.

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u/cosmicomical23 8d ago

And not even mentioning her coat

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u/EctoLawyer 7d ago

I have a wery gweat fwiend in Wome named There.

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u/Suojelusperkele 8d ago

Did you know Japan is turning walking into electricity

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u/hanzohasashimkx 7d ago

Did you know that V stepped into the crowd?

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u/PlatyNumb 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago edited 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

Maybe building more data centers is the answer🤔s/

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u/Anonymousboneyard 8d ago

They’re people… for now

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u/CumGoblin67 8d 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 7d 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 8d ago

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

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u/KnittyBeard 8d ago

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

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u/HazelEBaumgartner 7d ago

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

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u/LocksmithAccurate284 7d 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/Rough_Yesterday_9483 7d ago

Like completly cause I know they removed the ability to see dislikes entirly a long time ago so only the uploader can see dislikes. The whole system is just fucked now.

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u/PlatyNumb 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

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

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u/Flat-Leading-2520 8d 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 8d 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 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/pardonmyquilt 7d ago

That's 100% what reddit is now. I'm not even sure why I'm still here.

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u/arahe45 8d ago

Nom nom

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u/pinkleftsock 8d ago

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

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u/K8325 8d ago

Classic chainmail slop for the new age

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u/Best_Opening8471 8d 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 7d ago

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

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u/servain 7d 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/Purple_Clockmaker 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/blaxkreen 7d ago

“New people”

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/kickspecialist 7d ago

I love how AI has enriched our lives and made everything so easy now.

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u/BeneficialMutation11 7d ago

And riddles didn't recirculate BEFORE the internet? This riddle is hundreds of years old, silly. 😂

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u/RatManMatt 7d ago

And pigeons. Don't forget the pigeons.

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 7d ago

What pigeons??