• Zymi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    That’s fair. It’s well known in America as it’s a big event for a big American holiday that’s primarily watched by older, less online people and bored kids at a family members house which is why I bought it up. Local news was talking about the whole phenomenon because if it. But out of that American context you’re right that it wouldn’t be as meaningful.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      I don’t think you need to be chronically online in Australia to know about it either, and we don’t watch the parade. We do share a language, and more importantly, most popular music with y’all though.

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        4 months ago

        Most people here would definitely know the song. The song itself has become incredibly popular, of course. But the phenomenon of trolling someone with a rick-roll would be too obscure for someone described as “very-much-not-online”.

        So that’s the context I made my comment in. Internet culture is huge here, but it lives on the internet. But hey, in no way am I the decider on what is normal elsewhere.

        • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          4 months ago

          That’s all really fair. But I also just assumed he was parroting what the mother had called it, and that she was just blissfully unaware that she’d mixed the memes.