Parents not understanding memes

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @Matt_Rose
    @Matt_Rose  Год назад +5526

    In just the couple days spent creating this Twitter has changed to "X", making this video dated before it's even been released💀 Impossible keeping up with Elon's endless fiddling; next recording if I refer to "X" by the time the video's out he'll have changed it to QuasiPure and they sell soaps now.

  • @MasterArchfiend
    @MasterArchfiend Год назад +2413

    “It’s like a political cartoon, except it’s meant to be funny rather than depressing.” It was the best explanation that I could come up with that did not require a game of 20 questions.

    • @pyramidteam9961
      @pyramidteam9961 Год назад +87

      Is it an animal vegetable mineral or other

    • @Kit-the-Kat
      @Kit-the-Kat Год назад +25

      @pyramidteam9961 …Yes

    • @alexhollinghurst3945
      @alexhollinghurst3945 Год назад +38

      @@pyramidteam9961 It's a mineral, but sometimes includes animals and vegetables. Displayed on more minerals.

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 Год назад +37

      That's honestly a pretty good explanation!

    • @Nat_the_Chicken
      @Nat_the_Chicken Год назад +88

      I think this works for a while until the memes get too dank, at which point you just have to say "we laugh at this because it makes exactly zero sense"

  • @ColonelKlink1965
    @ColonelKlink1965 Год назад +2713

    What do you mean Grandma doesn't know how memes work? She clearly does. She just made one on the spot. She truly is the Meme Grandma.

  • @DEAD_ACCOUNT0000
    @DEAD_ACCOUNT0000 Год назад +9325

    "MEME GRANDMA" is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs

    • @nickklavdianos5136
      @nickklavdianos5136 Год назад +723

      Grandma understands memes perfectly. She didn't want to send a meme.
      She wanted to become one.

    • @TheCEOofTomlas_
      @TheCEOofTomlas_ Год назад +52

      Yes

    • @Noperison
      @Noperison Год назад +40

      Yes

    • @ZOMBiFOX13
      @ZOMBiFOX13 Год назад +21

      ​@@nickklavdianos5136yes

    • @ZOMBiFOX13
      @ZOMBiFOX13 Год назад +39

      We must turn this into a meme

  • @Arborvitar
    @Arborvitar Год назад +9028

    when I was 14 I was showing my mom a meme, and I tried to explain it as a ‘digital joke’ and of course she didn’t get it and it turned into a 30 minute lecture about how the internet is affecting me 💀

    • @meltdownrage
      @meltdownrage Год назад +530

      same but i asked my mom if “beanos” was a slur 😭

    • @j_cannot_type
      @j_cannot_type Год назад +851

      parents are very good at turning things into lectures 😭

    • @osheridan
      @osheridan Год назад +719

      When I was young I made the mistake of showing my mum a meme that vaguely referenced the Vietnam War, and she told me for 2 hours about why war is bad as if I was suddenly pro-war

    • @fly12hu655
      @fly12hu655 Год назад +68

      >110 likes
      >refresh
      >112 likes

    • @starryskies0
      @starryskies0 Год назад +53

      That’s my mom

  • @fr4mp
    @fr4mp Год назад +1528

    Sometimes I feel like this man is a living text to speech.

    • @0bookhoarder096
      @0bookhoarder096 Год назад +78

      Can you imagine if he voiced a sat nav "you've missed your turning SKULL EMOJIIIII"

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Год назад +29

      @@0bookhoarder096 Okay but imagine if Matt voiced the Tube for like April Fools or something

    • @firemayro
      @firemayro Год назад +6

      One to rival the AI named Jerma985

    • @collinbloo
      @collinbloo Год назад +2

      Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually the voice provider of a tts

  • @redtailarts101
    @redtailarts101 Год назад +660

    I get Grandma's knock knock joke.
    She assumes "meme" is pronounced "me me" so she's saying "me, me grandma!"

    • @Pandachu123
      @Pandachu123 Год назад +57

      That was literally me when I first saw the word "meme". It was from the DS game The World Ends With You. 😂

    • @theRPGmaster
      @theRPGmaster Год назад +26

      Actually pretty funny

    • @aptokro3005
      @aptokro3005 Год назад +17

      Its funny either way

    • @MissxLariz
      @MissxLariz 10 месяцев назад +15

      Our school once had one of those lecture days where you waste a few hours in writing on a poster how we make class fun and then talk about it in front of the class. I wrote "more memes". When our poster was being talked about our teacher stood in front of the class and said: "Oke first thing to make class a fun place we need less mèmès". And then she asked: "Wait... wat are mèmès?" It was funny but i also felt both disrespected and disappointed at the same time. Not just because she said "memes" wrong but because she said less instead of more which i wrote! 😓

    • @v-14415
      @v-14415 5 месяцев назад

      memetic grandmother

  • @ek-kn7vn
    @ek-kn7vn Год назад +600

    Meme Grandma knows exactly what she's doing and is killing it

    • @sunny-n2222
      @sunny-n2222 Год назад +5

      meme grandma is so good at memes that she turned into one

    • @The-S-H3lf-Eater
      @The-S-H3lf-Eater Месяц назад +1

      Who? Is she MURDERING somebody???

  • @demo2823
    @demo2823 Год назад +621

    My gran does understand memes, though not ones that require pop culture context. The problem is, she tends to read them out loud, which is a problem when you cause a 70 year old mild mannered woman to say, "zero f*cks given."

  • @Pokycraftgamer9
    @Pokycraftgamer9 Год назад +432

    You've been hit by, you've been struck by, Meme Grandma

    • @xoxablade8345
      @xoxablade8345 Год назад +8

      I love this.

    • @alexhollinghurst3945
      @alexhollinghurst3945 Год назад +9

      @@xoxablade8345 I hate how it actually works.

    • @shuper_j5819
      @shuper_j5819 11 месяцев назад +17

      Granny are you okay? Granny are you okay? Are you okay, Granny?

  • @rowan404
    @rowan404 Год назад +355

    When I first explained memes to my mom, she thought any image with text on it was a meme, so she started sending me “memes” that were actually inspirational quotes.

    • @naan000
      @naan000 Год назад +59

      now that's just adorable

    • @chillcreep4926
      @chillcreep4926 Год назад +45

      I have two friends in their 20s. I'm almost twice their age. I save memes and send them to our group chat, except sometimes I've also mixed wholesome quotes or pretty pictures in with the rest. I wonder if they think "oh this person doesn't understand what a meme is"

    • @unfortunate.spaghetti
      @unfortunate.spaghetti Год назад +10

      she’s trying

    • @Alice-oq4jm
      @Alice-oq4jm 9 месяцев назад +2

      They were originally

  • @ohurley11
    @ohurley11 Год назад +991

    Okay, but "You misspelled...almost everything" is way funnier than the actual meme.

    • @areallybigannoyingorangefa6562
      @areallybigannoyingorangefa6562 Год назад +26

      Vegetales

    • @Lunaticdoesdumstuff
      @Lunaticdoesdumstuff 11 месяцев назад

      angrey vegetals 😡@@areallybigannoyingorangefa6562

    • @allyjade03
      @allyjade03 8 месяцев назад +22

      ✨️A N G E R Y V E G E T A L✨️

    • @cooldog1994
      @cooldog1994 8 месяцев назад +16

      i literally got secondhand embarrassment like why would you ever send that to anyone who was less than 20 layers deep in meme familiarity

    • @BinglesP
      @BinglesP 6 месяцев назад +3

      Tbf that meme was from 2016 or so

  • @NekoChanSenpai
    @NekoChanSenpai Год назад +200

    Matt's voice saying "meme grandma" had me imagining a little old lady dabbing away into the sunset on a hoverboard. Will provide artist's depiction for one corn chip.

    • @henchmanpastchannel
      @henchmanpastchannel Год назад +19

      I shall provide **a single corn chip**

    • @alexhollinghurst3945
      @alexhollinghurst3945 Год назад +7

      You've got your corn chip. Let's see the depiction.

    • @NekoChanSenpai
      @NekoChanSenpai Год назад +9

      @@alexhollinghurst3945 unexpected snag: how do I show y'all the artist's depiction?

    • @namerose
      @namerose Год назад +8

      Post the image as a video on your channel?

    • @Lunaticdoesdumstuff
      @Lunaticdoesdumstuff 11 месяцев назад

      youtube video@@NekoChanSenpai

  • @storm-the-wize
    @storm-the-wize Год назад +223

    I sent my mum a meme once while I was out with my mates. It was a cat sat in the middle of a pile of fish with the caption “how it feels working at a bank”. She called me up, and gave me a 30 minute long lecture OVER THE PHONE about food hygiene and the danger of cats having fleas. Concluded by telling me I should not eat the fish at any costs, and I should report it and leave a bad review. Only later did I realise that she had assumed that we were at a restaurant and I had taken the photo 😂
    Edit: This was all on speakerphone, btw, and my friends were almost pissing themselves with laughter

    • @ok4551
      @ok4551 Год назад +16

      Your mom sounds awesome

    • @dumbassgaming5513
      @dumbassgaming5513 Год назад

      DONT EAT THEFCUKI G FISH

    • @Hmm-p9t
      @Hmm-p9t 2 месяца назад +1

      LMAO

    • @The-S-H3lf-Eater
      @The-S-H3lf-Eater Месяц назад

      Well at least she had a valid reason for the 30 minute lecture lol.

  • @Veniceisforsinners
    @Veniceisforsinners Год назад +851

    this perfectly sums up every reaction my mom has ever had to every meme i've ever sent her 💀

    • @arandomcommenter412
      @arandomcommenter412 Год назад +25

      And eventually it will be us not understanding

    • @pyramidteam9961
      @pyramidteam9961 Год назад +4

      Is your mom in this video

    • @cricketandgraham8644
      @cricketandgraham8644 Год назад +13

      My mom has sent me and my brothers memes, some of which are worryingly recent memes.

    • @kiraoshiro9251
      @kiraoshiro9251 Год назад +5

      ​@@cricketandgraham8644
      sounds awesome, all my mom ever sends us is cat gifs that usually indicates she wants something. I gave up tryna make her understand PLS MOM I DON'T SPEAK CAT GIF WHAT ARE YOU TRYNA SAYYYUHH cos then ik the response will be like
      *gif of crying cat*
      *gif of angry murder cat*
      *gif of cat riding a dinosaur*

  • @Clouditivity
    @Clouditivity Год назад +714

    i sent my grandpa a dog bonk meme before and he told me he was disappointed in me for having an "animal abused phototherapy" on my phone.

    • @mallermart
      @mallermart Год назад +192

      "The current generation is so soft"

    • @Clouditivity
      @Clouditivity Год назад +36

      @@mallermart I know LOL

    • @goobner420
      @goobner420 Год назад +51

      ​@@mallermart "kids these days think they have it rough"

    • @genericname2747
      @genericname2747 Год назад +114

      Props to your grandpa for being against animal abuse. Shame he doesn't get the joke though

    • @kyouhate9453
      @kyouhate9453 Год назад +24

      "This generation is wimpy" - My abuelo, 2015.

  • @whitebread3872
    @whitebread3872 Год назад +717

    I’m so lucky to have a mom who not only understands memes but sends them to me on a regular basis, and we have the same humor so I always find them funny

    • @axley9007
      @axley9007 Год назад +58

      You are the luckiest man alive

    • @bobbacon1398
      @bobbacon1398 Год назад +15

      Praise be the all-father

    • @rosehipowl
      @rosehipowl Год назад +33

      same! I have always sent random shit to my mum and she gets it (majority of the time). I don't send her the more internet specific stuff, but stuff that I think she'd get or find funny too. I assume she enjoys it. even if she doesn't I'm not stopping.

    • @Skibidi_Biden69
      @Skibidi_Biden69 Год назад +7

      Yeah that’s my dad

    • @lukebradford
      @lukebradford Год назад +6

      Same here, although it's more puns and jokes than memes. Still a few memes, though.

  • @superhotemo10
    @superhotemo10 Год назад +1954

    i would pay for a 4 hour long movie of matt just saying "SKU-HULL EMOJIIII" and random keyboard smashes and watch every second of it without blinking.

    • @werelate_
      @werelate_ Год назад +74

      💀

    • @zachb555
      @zachb555 Год назад +190

      "10 hours of silence randomly broken up by Matt Rose screaming skull emoji"

    • @bigfudge2031
      @bigfudge2031 Год назад +25

      He probably has a playlist of his videos just watch that.

    • @superhotemo10
      @superhotemo10 Год назад +16

      @@zachb555 YES I'D PAY £99,000 FOR THAT

    • @superhotemo10
      @superhotemo10 Год назад +21

      @@bigfudge2031 nah bc i just want the "SKU-HULL EMOJIII" and keyboard smashes

  • @TheFantasticJoe
    @TheFantasticJoe Год назад +168

    I don't think I've ever been able to show my parents anything funny I found on the internet without them asking if it was me or one of my friends in the picture/video.

    • @pineapplelollipop1074
      @pineapplelollipop1074 Год назад +39

      And you just know that they’re waiting for you to say you don’t know them personally so they can jump into a 20 minute lecture on staying safe on the internet. Like, that has nothing to do with the meme😂

  • @deen7530
    @deen7530 Год назад +136

    My aunt set up a family group chat, and I immediately decided to post the most incomprehensible meme I could find on it. Everyone wanted to know what it meant, so I made up a rambling explanation about how it was a metaphor for government control. My grandma replied with "So my confusion is not related to dementia after all!!" which gave me more mental whiplash than I'm sure the meme gave her.

    • @theRPGmaster
      @theRPGmaster Год назад

      You brainwashed your entire family. Terrifying yet impressive.

    • @ok4551
      @ok4551 Год назад +1

      Lol

    • @LiamOBrian-rb7oi
      @LiamOBrian-rb7oi Год назад +14

      Your grandma understood the meme
      She was having fun with it

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 7 месяцев назад +6

      She trolled the troll FTW

  • @Wolfy-Edits
    @Wolfy-Edits Год назад +590

    When I sent my mom a rickroll, she watched it and asked: "Do you like this boy?"
    💀

    • @BaconNuke
      @BaconNuke Год назад +104

      My dad understands some memes, like rickrolling.. but my mom doesn't.. one time when was small tried to rickroll them and my dad got it but my mom just sat there and was like "why are you trying to take it away I'm watching your video"

    • @Wolfy-Edits
      @Wolfy-Edits Год назад +10

      @@BaconNuke 😭

    • @marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043
      @marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043 Год назад +44

      yes mom, i do love rick ashley

    • @kingjolteon335
      @kingjolteon335 Год назад +20

      *SKULLLLL EMOJIIIIIIIII!!*

    • @genericname2747
      @genericname2747 Год назад +29

      Rick is your husband now

  • @Kimairan
    @Kimairan Год назад +158

    The "Meme Grandma" one at the end is so oddly wholesome. I love it.

    • @goobner420
      @goobner420 Год назад +4

      At least she was trying lol

    • @dejus_e
      @dejus_e 10 месяцев назад

      all hail meme grandma

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 7 месяцев назад

      IKR! It's almost too perfect.
      Almost.
      I've said almost 3 times now.

  • @NellaJade
    @NellaJade Год назад +317

    I appreciate my mom so much, who actually understand and loves memes. They’re an important part of our lives and we like to look at them together :)

    • @juanmanuelarcoscobos4715
      @juanmanuelarcoscobos4715 Год назад +2

      Relatable. I used to have breakfast with my mom while watching memerman's and unusualvideos' compilations, but she got a morning job. And unusualvideos' channel dissapered :(

  • @CoolLookinPea
    @CoolLookinPea Год назад +306

    I showed my mom a stick fight animation because I thought it was cool and halfway through she paused the video and said “you don’t beat other kids like that do you?”

    • @mallermart
      @mallermart Год назад +38

      Skull emoji

    • @taxidancing87
      @taxidancing87 Год назад +4

      omg 😂

    • @pyramidteam9961
      @pyramidteam9961 Год назад +37

      Do you

    • @Lunaticdoesdumstuff
      @Lunaticdoesdumstuff Год назад +18

      ​@@pyramidteam9961yes

    • @that_nerdy_hylian
      @that_nerdy_hylian Год назад +24

      I sent my parents "animation vs maths" video and dad thought it was amazing and mum spent the entire time being like "...okay? ok? cool... ? I.. don't get it"

  • @Cloak.x_
    @Cloak.x_ Год назад +207

    Parents not understanding memes is un-ironically the funniest thing to me

  • @vuxl
    @vuxl Год назад +161

    2:25 I’m honestly disappointed Matt didn’t just scream “PIGEON ON A CHAIRR”

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Год назад +12

      The silence says enough really

    • @merseyviking
      @merseyviking Год назад +36

      That was him holding the microphone out to the audience. I for one sang that at the top of my lungs.

    • @xoxablade8345
      @xoxablade8345 Год назад +1

      I sadly do not know this memeeee...! Someone explainnn. I have failed my life.

    • @RaunienTheFirst
      @RaunienTheFirst Год назад +8

      ​@@xoxablade8345 it's literally just other combinations of words that have the same rhyme and rhythm of "livin' on a prayer". It's an example of "lol random" humour

    • @xoxablade8345
      @xoxablade8345 Год назад +1

      @@RaunienTheFirst ah okay thank you for the explanation.

  • @huntforbigfloptober1333
    @huntforbigfloptober1333 Год назад +59

    I like how grandmas come in two flavors
    1. Sweet but oblivious
    And
    2. Meme grandma

    • @supotter377
      @supotter377 11 месяцев назад +7

      There is also the type that will go on an hour long rant/lecture over the smallest shit

    • @The-S-H3lf-Eater
      @The-S-H3lf-Eater Месяц назад

      usually the moms or maybe dads do that from what I've heard. ​@@supotter377

  • @thosedarnmice
    @thosedarnmice Год назад +56

    We need a full video of parents/grandparents thinking AI photos are real.

  • @mcvenne8935
    @mcvenne8935 Год назад +154

    We stan meme grandma.

  • @madaboutself
    @madaboutself Год назад +45

    i’m not gonna lie, i think a guy named “pee” holding a knife and sneaking into a bedroom would probably be a valid reason to leave a cozy bed

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 7 месяцев назад +2

      Yes! That's exactly what it takes - woke up from a dream where I was urinating just last night.
      Thankfully everything was dry 😂😂

  • @elaynadiedinside
    @elaynadiedinside Год назад +134

    I am so blessed for my younger parents who literally send me memes

  • @mightnare3237
    @mightnare3237 Год назад +45

    Don't ever show your parents memes if you don't want a talk about life lasting several hours

    • @Nat_the_Chicken
      @Nat_the_Chicken Год назад +8

      This depends on the parents, for sure. I have to explain memes to my parents (65 and 55) but they get the general idea of what it is and don't do this to me every time lol

  • @can-xe5ub
    @can-xe5ub Год назад +85

    Meme Grandma is an unstoppable force.

  • @heyitsuhhh306
    @heyitsuhhh306 Год назад +51

    I was at a restaurant recently with my family, and my mom was checking up on the wait time after about 20ish mins. The waiter she was speaking with looked a bit nervous as there were a LOT of people there waiting for a table. My mom says "I'm sorry, I know you're busy, and I don't want to be a Karen." The waiter bursts out laughing and covers his mouth in shock. He turns to his co-worker and says "She knows the meme!" And for that EXACT reaction, is why I told my mom what that meme is.

    • @Nat_the_Chicken
      @Nat_the_Chicken Год назад +20

      Karen is a tough one to explain to someone in that age group, too, without making them feel insulted somehow, so good work! She seems to have understood perfectly that it describes a type of behavior and doesn't necessarily associate it with all female members of a generation.

  • @mayasenior4439
    @mayasenior4439 Год назад +41

    Matt is the cool internet dad we all needed in our lives

  • @calanathenerdqueen2170
    @calanathenerdqueen2170 Год назад +12

    That last one is just adorable. Looks like something my own grandmother would do.

  • @sethb-h4127
    @sethb-h4127 Год назад +19

    Meme Grandma, the long-awaited sequel to "I AM GRANDMA"

  • @coralcrowglow
    @coralcrowglow Год назад +33

    I think that "meme grandma" certainly gets it, she's just too ahead of the curve for us all

  • @conspirasister5945
    @conspirasister5945 Год назад +107

    For those having trouble explaining what a meme is to their parents, this might help: The word “meme” comes from the greek word “Mimeme,” which means “That which is imitated.” It’s also, I believe, related to the word “memetics,” which is the study of shared and imitated ideas in groups of people. So essentially, a meme is just a globe-spanning inside joke. This information came from the internet, so naturally, take it with a grain of salt. 😅

    • @Tranqwhirl
      @Tranqwhirl Год назад +23

      Yeah but that explains its etymology more than its meaning
      Still kinda interesting tho

    • @Nat_the_Chicken
      @Nat_the_Chicken Год назад +12

      I think the English word "meme" was originally a technical term for "a concept that sticks in the brain" (etymologically related to "memory"), which doesn't seem related on surface level, but if you think about it, it just describes the reason certain images or videos become popular while others don't: they stick in our brains and cause a large number of people to relate to them and share them. Still not a great explanation, but interesting to consider.

    • @ForeverFree2Play
      @ForeverFree2Play Год назад +4

      If I said this to my grandma she'd never listen to another word I said again. (Not like she does anyways lol.)
      Honestly is this how you explain things to your parents?😅

    • @devononair
      @devononair Год назад +5

      Yes, the word meme originated in the study of memetics, which is like the study of genetics, but the thing being translated is culture instead of biology. A meme is defined as a unit of culture (such as a song, an idea, or a word). At some point in the late 2000s, a particular kind of meme, that of a photo with accompanying text that create a nihilistic joke, came into existence and spread across the internet. Not having a word for it, some people simply referred it as a meme, implying it was a generic meme that had no specific name. Others, not knowing the meaning of the word, started referring to it purely as a meme and the name has stuck ever since.

    • @Nat_the_Chicken
      @Nat_the_Chicken Год назад +4

      @@devononair This is a great explanation of the origin of the term, but I would replace "purely" with "exclusively" to imply that they didn't refer to anything _else_ as a meme.

  • @SauceTheSecond
    @SauceTheSecond Год назад +51

    2:34 Snaps on a Vaps

  • @oberonpanopticon
    @oberonpanopticon Год назад +18

    If you’d told someone 50 years ago that in the future humour would be conveyed through surreal metaphors, they would’ve looked at you like you had two heads. I wonder what humour will be like 50 years from now… telepathy maybe?
    Or maybe we’ve been laughing at dumb stuff for the past thousand years and now it’s only changed mediums

    • @chillcreep4926
      @chillcreep4926 Год назад +13

      A great deal of translated graffiti on ancient Roman walls and in Pompeii consists of dick jokes, gay jokes, drawings of dicks, and general silliness, so I'd have to say it's just the medium that changes.

  • @RoyalsYourDilemma
    @RoyalsYourDilemma Год назад +61

    Remembering when I had to explain to my therapist the *”really? Right in front of my salad”* meme..

    • @Vanta526
      @Vanta526 9 месяцев назад

      It must’ve been really awkward.

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 7 месяцев назад

      Reminds me of the "did I come at a bad time" one 😂

  • @naan000
    @naan000 Год назад +77

    as someone with strict parents, I absolutely cannot fathom people being able to send memes to their parents and their parents being cool with it

    • @voidbite
      @voidbite Год назад +1

      Those are quite weird parents then, aren't most parents just normal people?

    • @naan000
      @naan000 Год назад +8

      @@voidbite wdym most parents are normal??

    • @FloatingErgonaut
      @FloatingErgonaut Год назад +6

      ​@@naan000They mean most parents are people you can send memes and jokes and stuff to

    • @joudkahwaji6369
      @joudkahwaji6369 Год назад +17

      ​@@FloatingErgonautstrict parents don't want to be treated as friends.

    • @voidbite
      @voidbite Год назад +10

      @@naan000 Strict parents aren't normal, it's weird that they're strict, like, what I mean with normal people is, well, I can't really explain it, although joudkahwaji6369 kind of understands what I mean, although not fully either, like, if you where a parent, would you be strict like how your parents are?

  • @groovydoggo1258
    @groovydoggo1258 Год назад +16

    I was very lucky with my parents, they actually knew what a meme was before I did (I'm 20 now and probably learned about them around 8 or 9, whenever they were still all made with all caps Impact font). They aren't exactly well-versed on recent meme culture, but it's often easy to explain a new meme to them. It occurred to me recently that might come from the fact that they are always making pop culture references and running jokes within the family, kinda verbal memes I guess. Recently I've been having fun sending my mom random "gen z humor" memes just to see her start to figure it out, and she's done pretty well picking up on it lol.

  • @princesspixel3151
    @princesspixel3151 Год назад +82

    Not understanding the meme itself is one thing, but the parents’ lack of knowledge of the pop culture context is super agonizing! 😭

    • @harshmnr
      @harshmnr Год назад +17

      Do you understand pop culture from their generation though? Sometimes it's just hard for people to keep up.
      ~:~

    • @jr.c.4250
      @jr.c.4250 Год назад +22

      ​​​@@harshmnr difference being that stuff like thanos was plastered everywhere in irl theaters and on the internet when infinity war + endgame was happening and roughly two years after so it's a little weird to have them be complete clueless who the purple guy is

    • @kaym.5058
      @kaym.5058 Год назад +11

      I love anime and my daughter thinks it's the dumbest shit ever 😭

    • @princesspixel3151
      @princesspixel3151 Год назад +3

      @@kaym.5058To be fair, Pokemon anime was what taught me how to draw character expressions 😄

    • @shortcat
      @shortcat Год назад +6

      Lack of pop culture knowledge is pretty based

  • @flameflox
    @flameflox Год назад +22

    Once I forwarded my mum a meme from Pinterest of a guy talking to a wall with the caption to the effect of "Talking to your parents be like". However, when I forwarded it, I didn't remove the automated caption that appears when I sent it which read "What do you think?"
    Unbeknownst to me, my parents were in the middle of redecorating my room at the time as I was out the country for the week. And when my mum saw the meme, she for some reason thought I was asking for brick wall wallpaper despite not even knowing that they were redecorating my room. So, when I came home, my room was layered with brick wallpaper on three sides

    • @PhoeniXXTalon
      @PhoeniXXTalon Год назад +5

      this is one of the funniest things ive ever read

    • @swaggyhotdog
      @swaggyhotdog 6 месяцев назад +3

      why is this comment so underrated

    • @flameflox
      @flameflox 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@swaggyhotdog this is the best compliment I have ever received. Thank you swaggyhotdog

  • @robinrehlinghaus1944
    @robinrehlinghaus1944 Год назад +16

    The weirdest thing is how frequently the "parent" generation thtis is about try to concernedly analyse how that meme relates to you on a psychological level, but have no idea what it actually means, so they end up going on a five minute tangent on what problems of your soul they see reflected in it while missing the mark on 96% of the whole goddamn thing. Like "Oh. this shows the confusion you are experiencing at school" but then it's actually about the subconscious expression of the desire for community, but you can't tell them that because it would make things even more weird, so you just get caught up in an odd web of vague corrections and countercorrections....
    The more lighthearted kind of this is when they ask: "Who is this? Do you know this person?" as if they would have never looked at a magazine cutout or cartoon image that didn't reference someone they personally knew.

  • @k1zm3t
    @k1zm3t Год назад +39

    2:43 ANGERY VEGETAL

  • @Twister2849
    @Twister2849 Год назад +23

    I think at 3:35 the other guy was trying to elongate “PAIN” into “PARACETAMOL/IBUPROFEN” wow what a great abbreviation

    • @silvaj2730
      @silvaj2730 9 месяцев назад +3

      i believe they were suggesting types of painkillers.

  • @Camryn_0x0
    @Camryn_0x0 Год назад +53

    Matt just brightens my day with these videos, just my kind of humor! 😂

    • @Camryn_0x0
      @Camryn_0x0 Год назад +1

      OH MY GOD THANKS FOR THE HEART!!

  • @lightningboat
    @lightningboat Год назад +17

    Someone should make a compilation of Matt screaming "SKULL EMOJI💀"

    • @Matt_Rose
      @Matt_Rose  Год назад +8

      There are some out there in RUclips already! 💀💀💀💀💀

    • @lightningboat
      @lightningboat Год назад +7

      @@Matt_Rose SKULL EMOJIIIIII

  • @OreoSmithOfficial
    @OreoSmithOfficial Год назад +9

    i'm scared to show my parents any memes because they'll either not understand it at all or they'll get suspicious about my internet activity for no reason

  • @unimationegg1505
    @unimationegg1505 Год назад +8

    I think that grandma knows EXACTLY how memes work.

  • @oopstags6784
    @oopstags6784 Год назад +9

    honestly watching Matt spiral into an insane rage every time he sees a skull emoji is making me cry and laugh at the same time

  • @SauceTheSecond
    @SauceTheSecond Год назад +72

    3:26 BUT WHAT IF I AM ED SHEERAN

    • @mazzeyy
      @mazzeyy Год назад +3

      he's my brother basically he just doesn't know it yet

    • @SauceTheSecond
      @SauceTheSecond Год назад

      ​@@mazzeyyhmm

    • @GorillaWithACellphone
      @GorillaWithACellphone Год назад

      @@mazzeyyis that…IS THAT REAL PHILLIP!???

    • @mazzeyy
      @mazzeyy Год назад

      @@GorillaWithACellphone well technically William S. Hamilton but since they have no photo of Philip Hamilton yes its the real philip 😎😎😎😎

    • @GorillaWithACellphone
      @GorillaWithACellphone Год назад

      @@mazzeyy dude was the little brother phillip finally got

  • @rosiebaybie6245
    @rosiebaybie6245 Год назад +29

    This is too relatable! I’m not a parent myself, but I’m on the autism spectrum, and it’s sometimes hard for me to understand jokes/memes.

  • @Valentina-xv9cs
    @Valentina-xv9cs Год назад +5

    Idk I always mentally prepare myself before showing a meme to my mom, and when she finally understands it after some explanations... it's honestly such a great feeling

  • @ImNotKy
    @ImNotKy Год назад +35

    3:59 that ai predicted the future

    • @Ben-yz7sx
      @Ben-yz7sx 5 месяцев назад +3

      Not yet, but soon

    • @Xp366
      @Xp366 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Ben-yz7sxhe’s a politician, he’s never going to jail with that much money

    • @Ben-yz7sx
      @Ben-yz7sx 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@Xp366 only time will tell

  • @caseyynelmss
    @caseyynelmss Год назад +4

    When the dad said “who’s pee,” I slammed my head down and then the video went bonk. Perfect.

  • @Aintfullyhere_Clips
    @Aintfullyhere_Clips Год назад +17

    1:09 ngl i wouldnt even be worried about the not understanding of the meme, she said you "were" cute 😅

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ Год назад +18

    3:16
    Well, they provided a nice proof!

  • @Sammie1053
    @Sammie1053 Год назад +30

    This video has convinced me more than anything that older generations were absolutely destroyed by leaded gasoline and paint

    • @legendgames128
      @legendgames128 Год назад +4

      Oh, don't worry. You'll become the older generation soon enough, and then you'll understand their difficulty on understanding younger generations. I will as well, probably.

    • @Sammie1053
      @Sammie1053 Год назад +10

      @@legendgames128 There's not understanding the younger generations' humor and then there's not being able to differentiate a crudely made meme from a photo of yourself. Some of these people sound like the turn of the century moviegoers jumping out of the way of the "speeding train"

  • @iivy25
    @iivy25 Год назад +12

    Last time I sent my parents a meme they went through my camera roll 💀

  • @jorjebear9874
    @jorjebear9874 Год назад +46

    When I was a kid I tried showing my dad a meme about how anti vaxxers were idiots and somehow he interpreted it as me being anti vax, so he yelled at me about how anti vaxxers are idiots

    • @naan000
      @naan000 Год назад +13

      hey, at least he's anti anti-vaxx

  • @piggyproalice2
    @piggyproalice2 Год назад +17

    whose down to make meme grandma a real meme like a grandma who doesn’t bake cookies she just bakes memes

  • @ClonedGamer001
    @ClonedGamer001 Год назад +33

    1:36 Either Carol accidentally liked the picture and had just enough pride to not admit it but not enough to double down...
    Or she's a comedy genius.

    • @lemonaunos
      @lemonaunos 7 месяцев назад

      i’m not good with rappers but i got the Wednesday part
      nice meme

  • @felixmckinney7132
    @felixmckinney7132 Год назад +7

    I once sent my sister some mom memes. She proceeded to send every single one to my mother. I was told she sobbed.

  • @Bentheman24
    @Bentheman24 Год назад +51

    3:10 this one is so popular

  • @shfarias8615
    @shfarias8615 Год назад +73

    this made me laugh 4:18

  • @spookyplaguedoctor5714
    @spookyplaguedoctor5714 Год назад +12

    I periodically send a fish meme saying "wahoo... wahoo" to my mother whenever she does something nice and I'm not sure if she gets it or not but she enjoys it.

    • @chillcreep4926
      @chillcreep4926 Год назад

      You're training her to expect wahoo fish meme whenever she's nice to you.. keep it up

    • @spookyplaguedoctor5714
      @spookyplaguedoctor5714 Год назад

      @@chillcreep4926 I think she already expects it, especially when food is involved.

  • @heihogreenzx4704
    @heihogreenzx4704 Год назад +51

    Imagine how great grandparents would react to the “bro, I’m dead.” Meme.

    • @goobner420
      @goobner420 Год назад +15

      "you aren't dead you're texting me"

    • @pyramidteam9961
      @pyramidteam9961 Год назад +1

      They would probably die

    • @harshmnr
      @harshmnr Год назад +4

      Easy just translate it into "Brethren, I am deceased." 😂
      ~:~

  • @finn_20
    @finn_20 Год назад +4

    My mom recently discovered the gif section of her iPhone texts. The memes and gifs she has sent to our FAMILY GROUP CHAT leave me, my sister, and her boyfriend rolling on the floor from how inappropriate or random they are as a response while our grandma just hearts them because she understands it even less. I have never loved actually participating in our group chat more😂

  • @FizIbOfficial
    @FizIbOfficial 10 месяцев назад +3

    "Meme grandma" best words speaken in history

  • @bigfudge2031
    @bigfudge2031 Год назад +10

    I never have and never will try and show my parents any memes because I know it will go exactly like this (they are both over 70 for reference)

  • @yang_er
    @yang_er Год назад +1

    “Does your stomach hurt, come home” sounds so awfully sweet, brought a tear to ny eyes 😢

  • @jarmoliebrand2005
    @jarmoliebrand2005 Год назад +13

    2:09
    “My mom like’s drinking.”

  • @that_nerdy_hylian
    @that_nerdy_hylian Год назад +1

    You are the only RUclipsr I know that, within seconds of any video, even the AD, can make everyone in the room start staring at me being like "is she okay? why the heck is she laughing so hard?!"

  • @RickAstley-qd8bn
    @RickAstley-qd8bn Год назад +37

    I understand that It may be different because my mom is only 43 and probably younger than most of these parents, but she usually understands memes, often laughs at them, and sometimes even knows where they originated. I'm fifteen, so this definitely makes it easier for me to have stupid gen-z humor.

  • @MistyInTheCloudz
    @MistyInTheCloudz Год назад +1

    your videos randomly started being recommended to me. i started watching them. they are the funny thing i needed

  • @Heizenburgerz
    @Heizenburgerz Год назад +6

    2:18 that question makes me so annoyed!
    If looked at the picture she would've understood the joke

  • @Miku1773-n4b
    @Miku1773-n4b Месяц назад +2

    Mom in thumbnail: "pretty sure I'm not a bald purple dude"

  • @musclechicken9036
    @musclechicken9036 6 месяцев назад +4

    4:05 nope, grandma understands memes perfectly, in fact, her humor is ahead of our own.

  • @kait5758
    @kait5758 Год назад +1

    It takes a LOT to make me laugh out loud. I don’t laugh even if I think something is hilarious. This one did it. New favorite. PLEASE MAKE MORE MATT.

  • @js8303
    @js8303 Год назад +4

    The worst thing is when your parents are looking at a meme you’re showing them and next thing you know they’re swiping onto other things

    • @husky0098
      @husky0098 Год назад +1

      Rookie mistake, never have your memes and your furry hentai in the same folder

  • @boomslang_
    @boomslang_ Год назад +6

    oh i think that grandma understood perfectly

  • @TugiDeg
    @TugiDeg Год назад +14

    2:51 I only had the "3 smoakes" part of that picture. I was curious as to what the context was. Thank you, I've found the rest of the meme.

    • @Leminie9907
      @Leminie9907 2 месяца назад

      Where can I find the 3 smoakes help 😭 😭

  • @gairisiuil
    @gairisiuil Год назад +8

    my dad is 53 and still sends banger memes in our family discord
    sometimes he's a bit behind on terminology but he does not reside in real time communication areas as much as i do

    • @xinlou6707
      @xinlou6707 Год назад +5

      Family discord what ? the meme where the guy instantly ages into old man is me when i read your comment :D

    • @Konpekikaminari
      @Konpekikaminari Год назад +8

      "Family Discord" was not the thing I was expecting to find today

    • @gairisiuil
      @gairisiuil Год назад +2

      @@Konpekikaminari i use discord as my all purpose social media platform as i do not use any other regularly besides youtube which barely qualifies

    • @raccoonchild
      @raccoonchild Год назад

      Family Discord damn, you're living in the future (no, I'm the one that's old)

  • @themanonguitar3398
    @themanonguitar3398 Год назад +5

    I love how Matt passively-aggressively calls out all the grammar mistakes in these posts

  • @PMX
    @PMX Год назад +2

    "I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"

  • @vanillaweaselurbex
    @vanillaweaselurbex Год назад +10

    Matt rose honestly deserves at least 10 million subs. His videos are always so funny and make my day and many others better. W matt

    • @Matt_Rose
      @Matt_Rose  Год назад +3

      😊

    • @GurioGurio
      @GurioGurio Год назад +4

      @@Matt_RoseNO WAY MATT USED SOMETHING OTHER THEN A SKULL EMOJI 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀😇😜😇🥰🥸😋😇🤩😌😎😉😞😍😌😌🤨😙😚🙁😔😚🤪😏🥺😭🤪😜

  • @hawks-wings
    @hawks-wings Год назад +2

    Ngl the “who did that” on the pumpkin pie is understandable

  • @chaoticfr.
    @chaoticfr. Год назад +5

    i once showed my mum a meme, you know that breakfast one? yeah. she got mad at me because its “making fun of people with disabilities”.
    i got a 1 hour lecture, and my phone taken off of me 💀

    • @princesspixel3151
      @princesspixel3151 Год назад +3

      To be fair, there are memes that go too far with that kind of “making fun of certain people”. It’s just hard to find which one those are
      Still, that doesn’t excuse your mother’s apparent lack of pop culture knowledge

    • @chaoticfr.
      @chaoticfr. Год назад +1

      @@princesspixel3151 yeah, thats also true
      but thats just a meme, not making fun of certain people lol

  • @JaneAustenAteMyCat
    @JaneAustenAteMyCat Год назад +54

    Years ago, when the internet was just a twinkle in Sir Tim's eye, my grandmother saw an ad on the telly where a dog wagged its tail in time to the music. I have no memory of what the ad was for, but what I do remember is that my grandmother couldn't get over 'how they trained the dog to wag its tail like that'. Even in my extreme youth I understood that it didn't work like that, but I didn't know how to explain it 🤷

    • @goobner420
      @goobner420 Год назад +4

      I'm assuming you're British based on the vocabulary you're using lol

    • @Lunaticdoesdumstuff
      @Lunaticdoesdumstuff Год назад +1

      ​@@goobner420hello

    • @ericgolightly8450
      @ericgolightly8450 Год назад +1

      It's ok if she doesn't understand, it's her first day on the planet.

    • @goobner420
      @goobner420 Год назад

      @@Lunaticdoesdumstuff hello

    • @ravencollins5638
      @ravencollins5638 Год назад +2

      ​@@goobner420"my extreme youth" dude wears those long ass pajamas with the long hat and holds a candle to bed

  • @BlueIdiotPie
    @BlueIdiotPie Год назад +2

    so glad that Matt explained that Snape on a vape one bc I was coming up with Snape on a lightsaber and I knew I was wrong but I couldn't get what it was supposed to be

  • @KittyGamingtheBestYoutuber
    @KittyGamingtheBestYoutuber Год назад +3

    This reminds me of the time my mom thought someone was making inappropriate jokes about their wife's recent passing. She called us to her all upset, and we had to explain the websites like the click hole and onion are not real sources.

  • @gaspshichat
    @gaspshichat Год назад +1

    these videos make me glad my mom is 38 and sends ME memes along with her other four kids. it's great i love her

  • @labrat_goyle
    @labrat_goyle Год назад +4

    The last one is unironically hilarious

  • @7Mel0dy7
    @7Mel0dy7 Год назад +2

    Do you all know this Winnie Pooh Meme, where he puts on his glasses and tries really hard to read something and above that stands something like "My mom everytime I show her picture"?
    I showed this to my mom and she did exactly that, it took her a while but she understood it later
    This is the only meme she ever understood and thought was at least somehow a tiny bit funny
    Progress

  • @pinkiichi
    @pinkiichi Год назад +10

    Ngl I'd rather have a confused mom than a mom who doesn't like my memes and critizes them meanwhile her memes are stuck in the early 2000's era

  • @asiadoesstuff.5230
    @asiadoesstuff.5230 4 месяца назад +2

    This reminds me of when I sent a meme about passwords to my aunt; she then proceeded to bombard my notifications with 20+ cyber-security articles, and told my parents to “teach [me] about the importance of keeping passwords safe”…😀…
    Best part is: I also sent the meme to my grandma, (She’s also my aunt’s mum), and she understood it instantly💀