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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I don't get it... How is "too late" the punchline?

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't get it either, and what order are you supposed to read it? Does the title come first, or at the end?

[–] dukk@programming.dev 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

read the comic, realize you didn’t read the title, read the title. too late.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't get it until you explained it. Ironically, the people who read titles will have a harder time understanding the comic, because we've read it out-of-order.

Also on my lemmy the title of a post is below the image. It would be very strange for someone not to read the image first. This joke is bad.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 70 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Too many titles spoil the punch line, though. I can't risk it without reading the comic first.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago
[–] BossDj@piefed.social 4 points 4 hours ago

But how many times I've scrolled down to a happy smiling face, I start to smile too, them BAM, title starts: Teen killed when..."

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 34 points 6 hours ago

Fuck... I get shit at work for not reading subjects in emails too.

Had one person put the whole email in the subject to fuck with me. It worked.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago

Jokes on you, I read the title, forget that I read the title, read the post, then go back and read the title again 😎

[–] GuyFi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 hours ago

That's genius lol

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Most people read the title and not the article. Anyone out there reading articles without reading the title? 🤔

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Naw man, I never read the titles of comics. I just like to go in raw yanowaddahmean?

[–] lennee@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

inowaddahmean

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Staaaaaaahp

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 hours ago

So what is this emerging sub-genre of memes called? That rely on the title integrated into the meme itself?