my controversial opinion about the memes is that you don't have to understand them at all. They are like easter eggs or shakespeare references. It's fun if you do because you can put together little theories based on them (ie like ppl have mentioned, john uses them differently because he remembers them whereas they're just sayings to the rest of the characters) but it doesn't ruin the humor or whatever if u don't get them. Most of them are just sayings to me because I grew up under a rock. Like I don't think you have to be immersed in millennial humor to like tlt and I don't think it is as rooted in one time period as people think. I think it will actually be better in 20 years when we've all forgotten what none pizza was
#10 - for the uncommon questions. Specifically, /how/ does it haunt them?
10. What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?
Well if we're asking how it haunts him, that lie would be the lie of omission he lives with. The silence in response to his overreactions, when he ignores the questioning glances, or leaves town before anyone can probe too deeply. That does haunt him--- he knows that alone, it's only a matter of time before he gets someone hurt. But he also still thinks he can keep people safe if he keeps enough distance, or so he tells himself
That lie haunts him the most, out of all the lies he tells himself
I don't think they thought their fans would be this mad about it, like they had a whole exciting countdown to the video and everything. which is even weirder considering the vibes of the video itself.
I know! That’s another thing that I just can’t get my head around!! Like tbh it would have been better to just spring this on people unannounced. To hype up an announcement as if it’s an exciting new show or something only to reveal it’s a move no one wanted or needed was always going to end colossally badly. It’s so bizarre.
What’s really throwing me is the fact that up until this point I’d considered the Watcher crew to be pretty in-tune with the fans given how generally responsive they are to what’s happening in their social media tags and how they showcase fandom creations frequently. That shows a level of attention to the attitudes of the community and indicates that they know what we say on here and generally what we think about things. So it’s really frickin weird that they could have been paying attention to our memes and gifs all this time and yet misjudged how a massive seismic shift like this would be perceived.
All I know is that someday someone is going to make a really long video essay breaking down the Jenga tower of decisions at Watcher HQ that led to this point, and maybe then we’ll finally know how all this happened.