- Today, these dads meme business.
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning, bam!
- I've been cooped up for so long
that I have officially finished the internet.
Yes, I made it to the end of the internet
and it turns out there's some really dank memes out there
that I'm sure were even danker when they were
actually popular.
- Oh, you're getting in on the dank memes?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we've had to find a lot of ways
to occupy ourselves and I, too,
have dabbled in some of the dank memes,
usually over my kids shoulders.
I can't say that I'm too familiar with them
because I am still dad-ing very hard here from my home.
- You're a dank dad.
- I'm a dank dad, yeah that's right.
That brings us to the operable question for the day.
I don't know if the question's operable,
I don't know if that's the right word to use,
but we're gonna test our meme-ing skills
and see who's got the best meme game.
It's time for dad meme review.
- Okay here's how this is gonna work.
Stevie, who is on the line with us,
Stevie, are you there?
- [Stevie] Hey guys, yeah, I'm here.
- Hello, Stevie.
- Okay, she has the power to show us things
on our computer right here.
I mean, technology these days.
Whoa, it's so dank.
- [Stevie] (laughs)
- We've reached our dank quota.
- Okay, no more dank.
She's gonna show us these memes.
She's gonna give us some examples of these memes
because we probably haven't them because we're dads
and then we're going to make our own version of those memes
and then she's gonna tell us which one's better.
- That's right.
Points are gonna escalate each round.
In the end, the loser will have to endure
an embarrassing meme posted about them
all across the internet.
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Okay, Stevie, school us on this first meme.
- [Stevie] This first meme blink,
that's what I'm calling them when those don't have text,
is called confession bear
and it was made popular by f-18bro in 2012,
which if you're doing the math that was eight years ago.
- Thank you.
- [Stevie] But it's seen plenty of resurgence
throughout the years.
The confession bear is used to reveal secrets
that are usually self deprecating and embarrassing.
And I have a few examples.
This first one, I wear the same jeans everyday.
- That's not much of a confession.
That's just-
- That's true of me.
- That's normal, right?
- I'm not even wearing jeans today.
I don't even have pants on.
- So yeah, I mean.
- [Stevie] Yeah I guess this is not quarantine friendly
'cause nobody's wearing the same jeans everyday.
- People aint wearing no jeans.
- [Stevie] This next one,
I ran over the neighbor's cat
and later helped them put up missing posters.
- Oh.
I can't respond to this one.
- That's horrible.
- I don't condone violence against cats.
I don't like cats, I do not condone violence against cats.
Just needed to be said.
- [Stevie] And then this last one,
I absolutely love the smell of my own balls.
(laughter)
Which, I mean, is quarantine friendly I think.
- That's good.
I don't know if we can do better than that.
- [Stevie] And it's really similar to the one
that I wrote which was I absolutely love
the smell of my own Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina candle.
- Oh you got one of those?
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- Okay Rhett, it's time for us to break open our markers.
Write down your answer.
- [Stevie] Yeah, you guys have to write
your own dad memes here.
- A little confession, huh?
- I got a few actually, believe it or not.
- Okay.
Don't forget to put your lid back on your market, Rhett,
because if you're like me you only have one in the house.
- Okay, I said, I have a beard
because my chin scares children.
- [Link] Has that ever happened?
- Has my chin scared children?
- Yeah, has it?
- I assume so.
- [Stevie] Didn't it scare your own children
when you shaved it off for buddy system?
- Oh yeah they were very upset.
- Okay mine is, I vape my own burps.
You've never done this?
- [Stevie] I got really nervous.
- Yeah, that was a cliffhanger, right?
You've never, have you ever,
I frequently burp into my own mouth,
it's kinda like-
and then before you breathe out, you just breathe in.
And that way people don't smell your burp.
- Okay, Stevie, award points.
- [Stevie] Guys I'm sorry, this is an easier round for me
'cause I'm gonna have to give this one to Rhett.
I don't condone using the word vape, you know?
Or the word burp.
- Well you know what, next time I burp,
I'm not gonna vape it around you
and you're gonna wish I did vape it.
- [Stevie] Ew.
Let's just go to the next round.
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- All right, Stevie show us the next one.
- [Stevie] Okay, this is the this is how I win meme,
which uses a now famous line from the movie Uncut Gems
to convey the nefarious means one might use
to get what they want, often times centered
on trivial things for comedic effect.
- Huh, love that. - I have seen this movie,
I have seen the movie, - [Link] I have not.
- And I recommend it, I recommend it.
- [Stevie] Okay let me take you through some examples.
This is the first one.
Me when I pirate the movie Cats
instead of having to pay for it in theaters.
- [Rhett And Link] This is how I win.
- [Stevie] Next one.
Getting out of jury duty by changing my identity
to a nine-year-old's.
- Now that is how you get arrested.
- [Stevie] Yeah. - That is not how you win.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] And this one.
Using gift cards from last year to buy Christmas gifts
for this year.
- I feel like that's just good practice.
- Think of the economy.
- [Stevie] Oh geez.
Okay, so you have to write your own
and before you even think about doing it,
I will not accept if you wanna just use a photo of me,
and then this is how I win,
'cause everybody knows that I'm how you win.
- Oh, I get it, 'cause you're the judge.
- Yeah, yeah I get it.
It's a long one.
- [Stevie] Link you wanna go first this time?
- Mine was, texting running five minutes behind
when I'm actually running 30 minutes behind.
This is how I win.
I gotta say, I do that pretty often.
- Okay, I said putting on a nature doc
so my dog thinks I took her outside.
- [Stevie] No!
- Boo!
- It works. - [Stevie] I feel like Barbara
is a good indoor dog scenario, though.
I feel like she wouldn't mind a good nature doc.
- Hold on, now.
- She loves them.
- [Stevie] And I also have experienced
Link's meme in real life, from Link.
- But see the irony is these are not how you win.
You don't pirate Cats and you don't,
you know, it's like, this is actually how you lose.
But think that you're winning.
See, that's, right?
- [Stevie] I don't know, I think I gotta give
this one to Link.
It's highly relatable.
- That's what I'm saying.
It gets that relatable laugh.
- Whatever. - That means I'm taking a lead
'cause the points are escalating.
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- [Stevie] Okay this next meme has quite a description.
So here's the blink, and it's called
me explaining to my mom, which juxtaposes a photo
of YouTuber Quenlin Blackwell with a photo
of Miss Juicy from the reality TV series say it with me,
Little Women Atlanta. - (mumbles)
- I know all about Miss Juicy.
I know about Miss Juicy. - [Stevie] Do you?
- And I have seen this meme.
I may be a dad, but I've seen this dank meme.
- Oh, Miss Juice likes to stay warm under
that Cowboy blanket.
- So Quenlin posted a video of herself crying in 2018
and a year later, Miss Juicy posted an Instagram photo
of herself watching TV, then in March 2019,
Twitter user @sxturnedsailor posted these two pictures
side by side and just like that, the meme was born,
and it's used to convey the idea of one person
trying to explain something important to another person
who just doesn't get it.
So here's so examples.
Me explaining to my mom the Tati James Charles
Jeffree Star drama, and my mom.
- Yeah, been there. - Me too.
- I remember trying to talk to my mom about that, yeah.
She looked at me like I was crazy.
- [Stevie] My explaining my love for my dog
and how I would die for him, and my dog.
- Even dog's like, let's not get too deep here.
- [Stevie] And me trying to explain
the multi-dimensional nature of reality
and how you can shift between them, and my family.
Which I know happens to Rhett a lot.
- Okay. - Yes, uh huh.
Yes.
I'm all over this one.
- Trying to explain something.
- Sorry, there's a lot here.
- Okay.
- Okay, all right I'm done.
Link you wanna go first?
- Sure.
Mine is me saying goodnight
to each and every one of my shoes.
My shoes.
- Is that something that happens at your house?
- I mean, I do feel like I have a relationship
with each of my shoes and they're, you know,
I wanna let them know that I love them
and this is kinda how they feel about it.
- Got it.
Okay, I said me explaining the specific differences
between the California redwood and the giant sequoia.
My waiter at Chili's.
- [Stevie] I gotta say, I don't have close relationships
with my shoes, but boy do I have a close relationship
with my Chili's waiter.
I think this one goes to Rhett.
- Woo! - Oh, okay.
That one was a little personal.
Memes don't typically work if they only apply
to the person who wrote them, but is not pictured in them.
- Well it depends on who you are.
Depends on who you are, brother.
- In the wood community, that would do well.
- I'm big in the wood community.
- But on the open market, I think the shoes would have it.
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- [Stevie] All right guys, it all comes down
to this last meme.
This is the change my mind meme,
and that's Steven Crowder, or as I like to call him,
Steven piece of (beep) Crowder.
He's a podcaster at TCU who sat outside
with a sign that said male privilege is a myth.
Change my mind.
And the meme is used to convey strong hot takes
on topics that are actually important
or completely unimportant.
Let's see a few examples.
Corn dogs are just meat Twinkies.
Change my mind.
- Very important.
- [Stevie] Adam Driver is hot af.
Change my mind.
- Yeah, okay.
Make an argument. - I asked Lily the other day,
I was like, you know, she's so into Star Wars,
as am I, and I turned to her when we were watching
one of the Driver ones and I was like,
you don't think he's hot, do you?
- [Stevie] (laughs) What?
- She didn't wanna answer in general.
Her response was basically, out of principle,
I'm not answering that question for anyone
that you ask, dad.
- [Stevie] Can I give all the points to Lily
for this round?
Is that how this works? - Yes, please do.
- And then I will take them as a dad tax.
- [Stevie] And finally, Ratatouille would beat
Stuart Little's ass in a fight.
Change my mind.
- [Rhett] Oh, that's important.
- [Stevie] But I wanna hear yours.
So, please.
- Yeah, this one sorta just comes very natural.
- All right.
My pen's running dry but I do have one.
- Okay.
I'm ready.
- [Stevie] Go ahead.
- [Rhett] You can judge a man by the size of his wenis.
Change my mind.
- [Stevie] Okay.
- Just put that on the open internet,
and it's like, what?
- All right, what about this.
You can use hair as floss.
Change my mind.
We both had you can's, which is quite the coincidence.
- You can, wow.
- You can use hair as floss.
Change my mind.
- [Stevie] Oh gosh.
- Okay, try it once.
- Yeah, try it.
- Stevie just get a good look at my wenis.
- [Stevie] Oh, god.
- Because that's a part of this.
- [Stevie] You guys got a lot of things
that are similar here.
You both have you can's,
you're both using parts of your body in some kind of way.
- It's working.
I'm counting it, it's working.
- [Stevie] Oh god.
You're both gross, you're both doing gross things.
But I think it ultimately comes down to
what's the funnier word?
Floss or wenis?
And I think that we'd all agree
that it has to go to wenis, I'm sorry.
- Woo!
- [Stevie] Ouch!
- Yes!
- What was that noise you made?
- That was a quarantine celebration noise.
- (squeals)
- [Stevie] That means that Rhett wins,
and so Link, that means that you're the loser
and this is unfortunately the meme
that we're gonna have to post as punishment for you.
- [Link] What if I told you I have children?
(laughs)
Okay, all right. - That's good.
That's not a bad punishment.
- I mean, Adam Driver can act
and that kinda makes him hot, right?
It's not just the looks, it's what you do with them
that really matters.
- I definitely agree with that.
Okay, that means I win, you lose.
Look for the meme on social media today
wherever you find social media.
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