• geekwithsoulOP
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    2 hours ago

    I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself. <sigh>

    The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.

    Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.

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      8 minutes ago

      I’m old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but didn’t watch TV back then. I also enjoy some modern pop music but, in the vast majority of cases, have never seen the artists. I’m also terminally bad at faces even if I have seen them (I’ve had to ask my wife whether a picture of her was her; she took it well).

      I did actually recognize Alyson Hanigan, since she has a few distinctive expressions and features, but had no idea of the rest.

      All that said to say: thanks for the explanation; me not getting the joke or reference doesn’t mean it was a bad one.

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      9 minutes ago

      Thanks. That helps. I still have no idea who those Chapel and Sabrina are, but I now know they are supposed singers and that this is about they being similar.

      I guess people that don’t know Buffy would at least could identify one of them as the one in How I Met your Mother or from American Pie movies and the other having a cameo appearence in Big Bang Theory.

      I agree you are in a weird position knowing something ao old and something so new at the same time 😅

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      2 hours ago

      I think the problem is taking two separate photos from two different events on different days and thinking people would put them together.

      I bet you could find all sorts of separate photos of musicians from different events where one has armor and another has a red cape.

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        34 minutes ago

        Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)