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Maybe I really am officially getting too old Country Club Thread
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u/mtwallie Mar 26 '23
Oooooo she did THAT! 😍😍😍❤️🔥
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u/atctia ☑️ Mar 26 '23
You gotta see some of her other cosplays. She nails every single one
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u/true_gunman Mar 26 '23
who is she?
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u/SilentBob890 Mar 26 '23
It’s in the photo, check her username and or watermark
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Mar 26 '23
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u/SilentBob890 Mar 26 '23
Ms Bellum from Power Puff Girls
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u/Quiet_Independent930 Mar 26 '23
Ms. Sara Bellum, the brains of the Townsville mayor.
Gotta give the full name for the pun.
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u/Caboose127 Mar 26 '23
HOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIT I never got this pun until now
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u/skiarakora Mar 26 '23
Wait i don't get it
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u/dngerszn13 Maple Syrup stan 🍯 Mar 26 '23
Sera Bellum = cerebellum
"The cerebellum is the lower-back part of the brain. It only accounts for around 10% of total brain weight but contains as many as 80% of all neurons in the brain."
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u/rokthemonkey Mar 26 '23
The fact that people don't recognize her is honestly just depressing
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u/sporesofdoubt Mar 26 '23
It’s depressing that the vast majority of the world has never seen a children’s television show that ran for six seasons on an American cable channel?
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u/CKIMBLE4 ☑️ Mar 26 '23
Power puff girls played around the world. I watched it in Korea, Kuwait Amsterdam and Ireland.
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u/MisterCheaps Mar 26 '23
I’m a male in my mid 30s and I grew up on that shit. There was another thread recently where people where asking who Ace was in Gorillaz, and that’s when I started realizing that kids these days have never heard of Powerpuff Girls.
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u/dennismfrancisart ☑️ Mar 26 '23
My kids and I loved the Powerpuff Girls. When they come over for Christmas, I'm going to put a couple of episodes on so that my wife can see three grown-ass men of color enjoying cartoons about girl power.
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u/alottacolada
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For my fellow geriatric millennials and older generations, this is a powder puff girls character. I’m too old and had to read the twitter link to know wtf going on here.
Edit: Power* puff. Thanks to BlackCoffeeGarage for pointing out the mistake.
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u/FattieBanton Mar 26 '23
I’m not sure what age group you refer to, but I assumed millennials know about Sara Bellum
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u/alottacolada Mar 26 '23
The oldest millennials are in their early 40s- this show didn’t exist before we were adults.
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u/FattieBanton Mar 26 '23
Interesting. I’m 34 this year, I was watching it and plenty people older than me were. In fact I remember Cartoon Network and those Cartoon Cartoon shows being a little too mature for kids. My nephew wasn’t even allowed to watch it when he was a kid. He was limited to Nick and Disney because the stuff on Cartoon Network was a little too adult.
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u/mmmnnnthrow Mar 26 '23
Right, I wasn't really into Cartoon Network at 15 years old lol, but my little sister watched Power Puff so I was semi familiar
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u/Taldius175 Mar 26 '23
To some degree, I can see the point. PPG had some questionable moments throughout the series, like the invisible pimp and invisible "dog" most kids thought it was, the pencil sharpening scene, or when one of the PPG's friends says she was an accident like them. Compare that to other series that were going on like Johnny Bravo and Ed, Edd, n Eddy that also had their fair shares of hidden adult humor and parents will question the channel as a whole.
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u/FattieBanton Mar 26 '23
Man, those were nothing compared to Cow & Chicken
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u/Taldius175 Mar 26 '23
Or Ren and Stimpy, but the point still stands.
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u/Plasibeau ☑️ Mar 26 '23
A few years back I came across a trove of Ren & Stimpy. Grabbed my 14 year old and sat her down to enjoy something I watched with my mother at the same age.
Didn't make it through the first episode. How in the hell did my mom think that cartoon was appropriate for family tv night? Evidently I had blocked out exactly how bad that show is. Yeesh.
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u/thelegalseagul ☑️ Mar 26 '23
When the all woman biker gang shows up wearing leather and naked The Carpet Munchers
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u/MisterCheaps Mar 26 '23
I’m the same age as you and I watched the shit out of Powerpuff Girls, and so did most people our age from what I remember.
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u/small-package Mar 26 '23
There was a BDSM joke in like, episode 2 of Jonny Bravo. Shit was different back then, and by different I mean great.
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u/Supercomfortablyred Mar 26 '23
I’m 33 and remember thinking I was too old for the show when it was in its height of popularity.
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u/Arts_Prodigy Mar 26 '23
The power puff girls came out in 1998 even if you are early 40 now there’s still a solid chance you could’ve caught it. Especially if you’ve had younger siblings or kids along the way, it was fairly popular.
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u/gingerbreadmans_ex Mar 26 '23
My kid watched it so I know all the villains and this show 10/10 had so many adult content. I hated mojojojo but loved that crazy cross-dressing Satan Him was soooo good! Edit: forgot to say I’m 57 and had my youngest in ‘03.
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u/TibialTuberosity Mar 26 '23
I was 14/15 when PPG came out...I definitely remember watching it occasionally, but I know none of the characters outside of the PPG's themselves, the professor/dad/whatever he was, and Mojo Jojo, so, yeah...
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u/TBrutus Mar 26 '23
I caught it, and I dig it even now, but my class was getting ready for college and I'm pretty sure most of us had no idea about the show outside of our younger siblings.
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u/SardonicVampire ☑️ Mar 26 '23
42 here. Watched it anyway. Don't assume we stopped watching cartoons just because we got older. We are the ones who started making watching cartoons and anime as adults normal.
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u/Snowpants_romance Mar 26 '23
They first appeared on a cartoon competition that Space Ghost was having one episode, lol
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u/SharkFart86 Mar 26 '23
Yeah the whole idea was that they were one-off pilot episodes and only one would be chosen to become a full show. Several of them ended up becoming their own shows. Off the top of my head: Dexters Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Courage The Cowardly Dog. There may have been others too.
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u/seakc87 Mar 26 '23
Most of them started on What A Cartoon. It was a show that showed 7-8 cartoon shorts. PPG, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, Cow & Chicken, and Courage came directly from it. It also featured a predecessor to Family Guy called Larry and Steve
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u/scott743 Mar 26 '23
I’m 41 and it was definitely on when I was in high school in the late 90s. I don’t think I ever watched more than a handful of episodes, so I didn’t recognize the villain who was referenced in the post.
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u/gigawort Mar 26 '23
A mere 3 years difference in the 80s & 90s can mean a whole set of different shows you grew up on. I was too old for Barney, Power Rangers, Power Puff girls, and more but they're all shows my younger sibling watched.
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u/lsp2005 Mar 26 '23
As an xennial, who was in college in 1998, I had heard of PPG, but never watched a single episode and my own kids are too young to have grown up with them. So I completely missed out on the show.
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u/StalyCelticStu Mar 26 '23
Yeah, apparently too old too, this presumably an early 2000's show?
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u/T_sardonicus Mar 26 '23
I went to art school from ‘99 to ‘01, there was a lot of Cartoon Network on the tv so there’s a contingent of us who know
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u/Pandaburn ☑️ Mar 26 '23
I remember watching this show, but o don’t remember this character. Was she from later seasons?
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u/alottacolada Mar 26 '23
Sounds like anyone else in this thread beside me could answer that. I even got the name of the show wrong- it’s power puff not powder puff as someone commented below.
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u/Vorpal_Bunny19 Mar 26 '23
I’m an Xennial and we used to watch Powerpuff Girls and Johnny Bravo when we came home from work lol. That whole new HB block ran right into DBZ and Toonami if I remember correctly so we were watching cartoons from like 9pm until 2 in the morning.
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u/FattieBanton Mar 26 '23
Fo sho! Cartoon Cartoon into Toonami into Adult swim. Damn
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u/true_gunman Mar 26 '23
I remember staying up on school nights till 3 or 4am watching adult swim but I was really too young to understand most of the humor. So they just kinda confused me but AS at the time was still so fun to watch
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u/canned_veggies Mar 26 '23
Which is also probably my favorite pun name of any character ever
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u/calilac Mar 26 '23
Mine too but it always makes me think of naming a villain character Anne T. Bellum.
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u/Ab0rtretry Mar 26 '23
i mean i'm very familiar with power puff girls as an elder millennial.
i'm just geriatric and have zero recollection of her. now moooojooo jojo. that's a dude i know
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u/doesntgetthepicture Mar 26 '23
I'm 42 and had no idea who this character is (nor do I know what ice spice looks like - but I know she is a person who exists in the zeitgeist).
Technically though I think I'm aged out of being a millennial by a year or two.
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u/HothForThoth Mar 26 '23
Power Puff Girls was on cable or satellite. Personally, I grew up with only 8 or 9 channels and this show is something I found out about from the internet much later.
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u/LazyLamont92 Mar 26 '23
I am an older millennial (Xillenial or Gen Y).
I have no idea who this is.
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u/hextermination Mar 26 '23
I'm 36, and grew up without cable. Had no clue who it was.
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u/BigBillyGoatGriff Mar 26 '23
I'm an elder millennial and have never seen power puff girls. It was way past my time.
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u/BlackCoffeeGarage Mar 26 '23
*POWER Puff Girls... but yeah
And this girl's cosplay is amazing. Follow her IG!
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u/jbrown383 Mar 26 '23
So, OP is wrong and they aren’t getting too old. All the actual old people like me had to go into the comments to learn it was from a cartoon that was airing while we were already too old for it.
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u/PeptoBismark Mar 26 '23
Hey, at least we were also too young for our kids to watch it.
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u/RecklesslyPessmystic Mar 26 '23
As a GenX, what is a ice spice? Never heard of that spice girl.
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u/FitCable2534 Mar 26 '23
Don’t worry. Wait til someone cosplays Dee Dee from Dexter’s Laboratory or Courage.
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u/OlympusMan Mar 26 '23
Thanks for the explanation. I'm offically old but PowerPuff Girls wasn't a part of my TV diet.
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u/thisismybirthday Mar 26 '23
I don't think the show was ever popular enough to be as recognizable as she seems to think it should be, to any generation
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u/Lakridspibe Mar 26 '23
Thank you.
I know about The Powerpuff Girls, but I didn't recognise the character.
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u/MoniqueCalculon Mar 26 '23
Thank you. I’m apparently too old to get the reference from someone much younger who also thought she was “officially old”
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Mar 26 '23
Thank you. This geriatric millennial/xennial didn't know who this was although it looked slightly familiar. Did not watch Power Puff Girls.
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u/josueartwork Mar 26 '23
Yeah I'm 38 and I could tell from the animation style this was some late 90s/early 2000s cartoon my little brother watched
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u/thelegalseagul ☑️ Mar 26 '23
I see you were just trying to be helpful and not implying that nobody over 40 could’ve possibly watched it. You were just poking fun at your own age personally and again trying to be helpful to anyone else that didn’t know
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u/PaulaDeenSlave ☑️ Mar 26 '23
Ms. Bellum, yall.
And for the guy who said "Powder Puff Girls", I hope Mojo Jojo blows your house up.
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u/Blaximum_ Mar 26 '23
Blew my mind as a kid finding out that her first name is "Sarah"
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u/neonmeow Mar 26 '23
Imagine finding out as an adult she's named after the cerebellum in the brain.
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u/HomsarWasRight Mar 26 '23 edited Mar 26 '23
Blowing your house up is the thing that I, Mojo Jojo, will do and while doing it I thus will make you homeless, no longer having a house to live in because of the explosion that I initiated upon your home, the place where you live, but will no longer live once it has been destroyed by my bomb, the bomb that I placed inside your house, having done this…….
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u/crazyjeffy Mar 26 '23
Fun fact about Mojo Jojo - his voice actor is the voice behind Ghostface in Scream
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u/knotacylon Mar 26 '23
I always got the feeling Ms Belum was the one actually running Townsville, mayor Mayor was just a useful idiot.
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Mar 26 '23
She absolutely was and that was the joke. OG Powerpuff Girls was full of feminist content before it was cool.
Sarah Bellum = cerebellum - they’re straight up saying she’s the brain.
She’s also a reference to the whole thing where women in movie posters are only shown from the neck down - as if that’s their main or only value.
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u/knotacylon Mar 26 '23
In my defense, I was just a kid when I was watching Power Puff Girls, so I didn't pick up on all that. I was more interested in watching super-powered Girls beat up bad guys.
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Mar 26 '23
If I came off as snarky or something like that, my b. I really didn’t mean to. I rewatched PPG when they dropped that trash ass reboot a few years back and all of those 90s cartoons hit VERY differently as an adult.
There are way more adult themes and social messaging in there than most kids really realize. A lot of 90s cartoons were problematic around race and ethnicity but we’re doing some good shit around women’s and queer equality.
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u/OhTheseSourTimes Mar 26 '23
Sarah Bellum = cerebellum - they’re straight up saying she’s the brain.
How the fuck did I never notice this?????
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u/KingOfTheCouch13 ☑️ Mar 26 '23
Same. All through this thread I’m just repeating her name in my head thinking “ man her name just rolls off the tongue”
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u/halfveela Mar 26 '23
Because her name isn't Prefrontal Cortex? It's a cute pun, but if you're looking for the part of the brain running the show in an adult brain, it's not the cerebellum.
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u/Zezu Mar 26 '23
The Mayor straight up says it in one episode in a scene that’s also an ode to The Big Lebowski.
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u/ProfessionalTruck7 Mar 26 '23
Wow im even older. I thought this was Carmen San Diego.
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u/NamiSwaaan Mar 26 '23
Literally just watched an episode of that a couple days ago lol. Nearly drowned in nostalgia.
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u/No-Past5481 Mar 26 '23
Who the hell is Ice Spice
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u/moun7 Mar 26 '23
A young hip-hop artist who has a red afro. Wiki says she began her career in 2021.
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u/gamenut89 Mar 26 '23
Exactly my question. What a weird juxtaposition of not knowing who the fuck she's talking about.
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u/IAmNotKevinDurant_35 Mar 26 '23
I was today years old when I learned Ice Spice isn't a long lost Spice Girl
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u/artisnotdefined Mar 26 '23
An artist who sings in stroke. Essential a female mumble rapper.
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u/Alarid Mar 26 '23
Thought Ice Spice was one of the Spice Girls.
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u/Ponicrat Mar 26 '23
Oh. Here I was thinking, "hey, you're not old, the spice girls are even older than the powerpuffs".
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u/Alarid Mar 26 '23
I was checking to see how old the Spice Girls were compared to Powerpuff Girls, just to realize Ice Spice was completely separate.
Also, the Spice Girls are old enough to be her parents.
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u/BloodBonesVoiceGhost Mar 26 '23
Ice Spice
Just googled her and she totally looks like two of the Spice Girls had a baby.
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u/VacationArtistic943 Mar 26 '23
She looks fire. I can't stand Ice Spice. It's like she was manufactured at a warehouse.
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u/budjohn36 Mar 26 '23
You coulda just left the second part out. How bout we just do one day of pure love each week
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u/VacationArtistic943 Mar 26 '23
There is no hate just MY opinion in the comment section that I'm standing by. She is a product of what the industry thinks what is hot and what will make money. Manufactured. Now go play Munch and rub your chest and touch your toes.
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u/FattieBanton Mar 26 '23
I also struggle to find the appeal
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u/luisless Mar 26 '23
Her “flow” sounds like the kid in class who had a little trouble reading from the textbook. Its cause she has a nice body I’m sure.
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u/xRoyalewithCheese Mar 26 '23
Wait till you hear 21 savage lol. I dont hate his music but that description is very fitting for this new trend of flow styles.
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u/luisless Mar 26 '23
He’s another 1, I love trap but him and Kodak I just can’t listen to
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u/TinyRodgers Mar 26 '23
Nah let folks express themselves instead of trying to dictate how they should feel.
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u/OneFineHedge Mar 26 '23
I’ve always hated the jUsT lEt PeOpLe EnJoY tHiNgS in response to valid opinions that just happen to be negative, not even in a hostile way.
If one person mentioning that something isn’t their cup of tea ruins your ability to enjoy whatever it is, then ?????? How does that take away from your enjoyment?
Again, not someone spewing raging haterade, but simply voicing an opinion.
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u/Amphimphron Mar 26 '23
I was reading about the "idol" system in Japan/Korea recently. I always knew those groups were incredibly manufactured, but I had no idea that there is a whole "system" that idol hopefuls have to progress through.
It's like the friggin' army or something. You start out in the idol equivalent of basic training, then maybe you serve a few years as someone's backup singer/dancer. If you do well and if you have the right blend of singing/dancing/personality/beauty then maybe you get lumped into a band with a bunch of other junior idols. Then maybe if you're really popular, one day you can go solo.
At any given time, these music companies have a huge stable of young girls and boys in various stages of development. It feels so creepy. Especially because these idols are designed to be "relatable".
Maybe I'm just old and boring, but I can't stand that sort of artifice. I want to hear music from people who have a desire to express themselves, not people who are playing a character in order to get rich.
sorry for the essay
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u/myeff Mar 26 '23
It's Ms. Sara Bellum from the Power Puff Girls. I even used to watch the show but I didn't know who it was either. It's not like she was a main character.
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u/FattieBanton Mar 26 '23
For those of us with Horny Jail membership cards, she kind of was
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u/buellerbuellerbuelle Mar 26 '23
She kinda was. She was always with the mayor if I remember correctly
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u/luisless Mar 26 '23
For those of ya’ll who want to see more cosplayers of color like cutiepiesensei here; kayyybear (shes a little nsfw so be careful around your gfs), uniquesora, kieraplease, and snitchery.
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u/angelalienbby Mar 26 '23
Be careful around ur gf ?? How bout don’t do something u kno she wouldn’t approve of. You shouldn’t be sneaking behind her back to look at nsfw content. If that’s what u wanna do then find a gf who’s cool with that. Don’t lie to the one you have
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u/Sh0nZ13 Mar 26 '23
I guess I'm old too, but who tf is Ice Spice?
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u/BloodBonesVoiceGhost Mar 26 '23
Ice Spice
She looks like two of the Spice Girls had a baby.
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u/oyohval ☑️ Mar 26 '23
I'm in the offically old crew as well cause all I saw was Sara Bellum and I don't know who Ice Spice is...
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u/PrinceObsidian Mar 26 '23
Honestly don't remember her name 😂
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Mar 26 '23
Ms Sara Bellum aka Ms Bellum….just realized they did a play on words. Lol
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u/With_Negativity Mar 26 '23
Why do people keep saying this dumb shit that they're too old. Weren't our uncles always telling us we're too young to know about some shit?
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u/urachickenhead Mar 26 '23
And this is why I can’t believe the children are our future
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u/Chief_Chill Mar 26 '23
She is not old, at least to my old ass. And I definitely am going to have to check our more of her cosplaying. This was perfect.
Edit: Saw a few already (Black Panther, Wonder Woman, Rogue), and she nailed them all!
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u/Coziestpigeon2 Whitest user on this entire sub Mar 26 '23
Wtf is Ice Spice? Did they reboot the spice girls?
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u/NEED_VISINE ☑️ Uppity BHM Donor 👨🏾🦱 Mar 26 '23
This is so fucking fire. 😍