Yeah! Give that corporation a large portion of your income in exchange for goods, and then destroy those goods! That’ll show that completely separate person with zero ties to the corporation!
I agree with the sentiment, but they’re actually giving away those goods! to another corporation
Goodwill is non-profit
They still suffer from a corporate mindset, unfortunately. Salvation Army, too, although that’s not mentioned here.
We have switched to donating to Habitat for Humanity. Seems like the best of the convenient options.
This has to be a troll right? I refuse to believe anyone uses “smartoons” unironically
it is, i lied to everyone
Listen here Morty
I love how the way he wrote that makes it seem like he considers this dude hurting the fandom and killing some show to be a worse transgression than hurting his girlfriend.
hurting millios of smart adult fans (like me) every single day and second 😢😢 or a girl getting hurt two tims a day. Please think abut before comenting 😭😭😭
Eh, it’s ambiguous which event he is referring to. Could be either.
“Intelligent adult” + funko pop collection….who’s gonna tell him?
I’m pretty sure it’s a joke my dude. Someone just took a picture of funko pops and wrote funny words.
Yeah, most of these funko pops seem to about Marvel/DC than rick and Morty, although it’s still funny as hell
Ther are ~25 Ricks in this collection. I didn’t count all the dolls but it looks to be at least ¼ is just rick and mortys
I know! I was attempting humor myself. I’m just bad at it.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
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It’s a copypasta dude
Cant tell if this is like legit idiot, or the best parody ever.
It’s a copypasta
Yeah, my first sighting of copypasta in Lemmy.
So it begins
I’d like to think parody, but I’m a pessimist/realist
Here’s one of many sources for the text in case you still have any doubts.
OK, cool. Thanks for bringing back some small bit of my faith in humanity.
Rick and Morty is not intelligent
No, but the show was fun.
I agree (at points)
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I enjoyed many parts the show but didn’t love it obsessively like some people. I think that it’s popular because
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it’s geeky and fourth-wall-breaky - which is where the “high IQ” idea comes from,
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it’s actually completely accessible to low-IQ people, as evidenced by the fact that it’s popular with people who brag about having a high IQ,
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it’s silly and slapstick, which when combined with point (1) creates
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constant reversals of expectation, which are a very effective form of humor,
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it’s in-your-face and edgy, which appeals to people who like to think of themselves as rejecting the mainstream, despite still being very mainstream, and finally
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it is extremely memeable.
A winning formula regardless of the writers’ creativity. And some episodes had a pretty creative premise. The Microverse Battery episode could stand side by side with The Simpsons before The Simpsons turned into a parody of itself.
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you’re just mad you aren’t enlightened enough to understand the eloquent humor of pickle rick
You probably just didn’t understand all the intellectual jokes for high IQ individuals like myself
Bold of you to assume you have a high IQ.
To be fair you need a high IQ to understand
I am cringing so hard @ ‘smartoon’ rn…
I want it to be satirical but then I remember that someone somewhere unironically believes there is something called a “manosphere”.
what the hell is a… nvm I don’t even want to know
It’s everything from redpill misogynists to people who just support men’s rights and saying we should should direct resources to prevent male suicides is the exact same thing as saying women are property and deserve no rights or autonomy and there is no middle ground.
It is important to understand what people are saying about this because when you hear someone say something that seems reasonable and correct but suddenly they show their extremist stance but then you dismiss that part because you don’t realize what they are saying.
This is how all extremist groups get people on their side from Isis to Jordan Peterson to far right politics.
Two men enter, only one man leaves!
If there was a moment for “dies of cringe” this is definitely one of them
In fairness you do need a very high IQ to and so on…
I mean, double digits are really high numbers for some!
Yes, let’s not forget the real victims, the poor Goodwill volunteer that has to go through this collection and sanitize anything vaguely pickle-shaped.
What the hell why’s this one in a jar?
A jar full of… ranch?
Least cringe Rick & Morty fan
If only there was a way to distinguish between the artist and the art… but since both are always the same, it will for all times be impossible to enjoy the art of an artist that committed some assholery.
Wait till people figure out what DaVinci, Rembrandt, Mozart, Picasso did and say when they were still alive, young, inexperienced and horny. Yes! Horny! Despite their talent they were ordinary people, young men with dicks! We’re going to have to empty the whole effing Louvre after finding out.
There’s an important difference: those guys are all dead, and so are their victims. Somebody’s great great great great grandmother won’t retroactively become more abused just because you look at a painting.
It isn’t about enjoying art created by someone who did awful things, it’s about continuing to reward that someone with fame and fortune and giving them free passes to do more awful things just because they have a talent that you appreciate. It’s about valuing aesthetics over morals. By all means, continue to enjoy art made by scumbags. I do. Just don’t continue to bankroll their abuse of others after you find out that they’re scumbags.
I can’t believe how much fucking merchandise there is for such a small show. Compare it to even something like futurama in terms of cultural impact and there’s so much more plastic shit made for Rick and Morty
I think part of that is how popular merchandising like funko pops have become in recent years, Futurama was many years ago at this point.
Second reason is that despite its longevity in the internet consciousness, it’s easy to forget Futurama was fairly unpopular when it was originally airing.
Rick and morty has the a to attract some of the most obsessive people on the planet. When everyone’s a whale you better start whaling
“This is a story of love and loss, fathers and sons, and the foresight to retain international merchandising rights. This is the story of Star Wars.”
West Philadelphia, born and raised.
Wailing
Rick and morty is not a small show by almost any metric. Funko pops also became popular right around the same time and have a massive overlap in fans, so it makes sense. Futurama was not out at the same time for the most part but there is still about a dozen funko pops from it.
Funko can just make tons of unique models really cheaply, and they know fans will buy them to collect like beanie babies, so of course they’ll keep churning out different versions of the same characters of one of the most popular nerd cartoons that their own fans love.
it’s a small show by literally any metric.
The Circle posted about triple the viewership numbers. would you consider the circle a big show?
Ah yes, do compare a reality show to a fiction cartoon. I’m sure Top Chef has such a greater impact culturally than Breaking Bad
Breaking bad pulled in more than 10x the viewers of top chef on a regular basis.
Rick and Morty was pretty damn huge for a minute there. Think you’re underestimating it’s impact.
As an aside, did you know Futurama is coming back?
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Unpopular opinion: Fry and Leelo’s romance was the worst part of that show.
Might just be me, but when Futurama was new, Funko just wasn’t the massive brand it is today. While there is Futurama Funko, Rick and Morty is still (sorta, not regularly), being made, but Futurama has been dormant for new episodes until very recently. So if the show takes off, I’d suspect a new line of Futurama Funkos for people.
Small show? I dunno about that. Rick and Morty are pretty iconic characters and there’s been lots of famous moments from that show since it started broadcasting. I dunno why you are making it sound like barely anyone watched it. I was a teenager during its peak in popularity and let me tell you everyone is the hallway was quoting one liners from that show.
I need out of Rick and Morty after hearing you need a high IQ to understand it. Can anyone explain the post?
You don’t need a high IQ. You merely need to tell yourself you have a high IQ.
I’m out of the loop, what did they do?
He had been charged for commiting domestic abuse and so he was let go from a bunch of shows including Rick and Morty. The charges were later dropped but it’s unclear whether his reputation will recover, especially since some other people accused him of toxic behavior like telling someone to go into sexual slavery.
So anyone can make accusations and immediately the internet just eats that shit up.
There was a lot of undeniable evidence of him being a bad person regardless of the court not being able to prove abuse beyond a reasonable doubt.
Thank you! He seems like a sweetheart 😐
charges were dropped on a technicality iirc
…Which is pretty much par for the course for a lot of sexual assault cases as well. RAINN reports that, out of every 1000 sexual assaults, 310 get reported to police, 50 result in arrests, and only 28 result in convictions. So the DA dropping the case before even going to trial isn’t all that surprising. It doesn’t mean that he isn’t guilty, just that the DA didn’t think they were going to be able to prove it in court.
… yup. Sadly.
I had an GF that was raped and she immediately went to the police office and had a rape kit done and all that. The DA refused to prosecute because “he’d probably just say it was consensual and we don’t have evidence otherwise without a confession”
It’s a shitty situation because the law legitimately should not be throwing people in prison simply on the word of the accuser. “Beyond a reasonable doubt” is an important aspect of the justice system.
On the other hand, it does result in many rapists getting away with their crimes.
Wasnt Roiland actually cleared by the court?
Yes, but: a lot of other pretty unwholesome stuff came out about him during the process and his contract has a clause in it that allows him to be terminated on that basis; it’s actually pretty common for people in his kind of position to have contracts like that.
Got a lonk? Curious to see what other stuff came out.
As far as I know, it was the sketchy text messages with minors.
in any case it’s nothing that anyone dared to show any judge.
so for all intents and purposes, bullshit
doesn’t matter, these"judges" already convicted him. Forget due process. Getting accused publicly == being guilty forever on social media.
It’s also important to remember that this is how most abuse cases work out. There is almost never enough evidence because it is almost impossible to proof beyond reasonable doubt. It’s incredibly rare that someone gets convicted in an abuse case, no matter if they actually committed abuse or not. The victim has to basically stand in court with the gunk and fingerprints of the perpetrator still on them and video material that shows it wasn’t self-defense from the other side, for any conviction to actually happen.
So we should be satisfied ruining people’s lives based on accusations alone?
That’s what you take from it? No, I think there should be no reports or articles or mentions on any cases that have not yet been decided upon by a court. A private’s persons life is not ruined by an accusation because it almost never leads to a conviction, regardless of whether they are guilty or not.
Sorry, I thought you were saying in subtext that we should only judge based on accusations since evidence is hard to get for abuse cases. My bad!
No, I am really not that good in English. I often realise people understand it slightly different than what I meant. But I can’t do anything about it lol
How does that saying go again? By the time Truth puts its shoes on, a Lie has travelled around the world.
i never liked Rick And Morty, and Funkopops are offensively ugly
