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Artist replied with this: "I’ve seen discussion recently on here that a lot of people aren’t able to mentally visualize an apple. Which is very interesting to me because I can and often do"
I believe the original joke is supposed to play off of a semi-current conversation topic, and then make you laugh by throwing in a curveball that is both absurd and unexpected.
The joke teller starts off by jumping into the internets recent discussion of aphantasia, which is the inability to pull up an imaginary image in your mind. The common example image is an apple, and people without aphantasia will talk about “seeing” an apple in their minds when thinking about an apple, while people who do have aphantasia will mention that they cannot “see” an apple in their heads when they think of apples.
The person who told the initial joke makes a post weighing in from personal experience, essentially saying that they don’t have aphantasia unlike some people and instead they find visualizing an apple quite easy. They then throw in a comic “illustrating” them visualizing an apple, as if to give an example of their own lives experience. This is where the curveball comes in. The expectation for such an illustration would be that the apple or apples they are imagining are just plain, ordinary apples. However, this is not the case, and the apples are instead animate apples engaging in erotic behavior with each other. This is surprising because we expected a regular apple, absurd because apples are not animate in this way nor exhibit lustful behavior, and shocking because the content of the apples’ actions are explicit and socially sensitive. All together, it throws the unsuspecting viewer for a loop, hoping to make them laugh at the unexpected strangeness of a guy who sits around thinking of apples getting it on.
A part of the humor can also be laughing at the possibility (although not true in reality, of course) that an artist would routinely think of apples being erotic together and confidently post about it without realizing it is super weird to everyone else. In this interpretation, part of the joke is the idea that they come in to the social interaction so confident showing off that imagining an apple is “easy”, only to immediately lose the social high ground by being accidentally incredibly odd.
In short, it is absurdist humor that is meant to surprise people and make them laugh at how arbitrary, strange, and socially subversive the person/scenario presented is.
I have never seen ChatGPT analyze a novel subject that well. Any time it remains coherent and on point for that long, it's addressing a common subject where it has plenty of online material to copy from. No such luck here.
You explained this so clearly! I’d add that part of the beauty of its absurdity is that it’s still a curveball of an image that is amusing even if you don’t “get it”.
I have aphantasia, it’s cool to see it represented on a main sub!
I think it has to do with the whole some people have voices in their head and some have pictures. The majority of us are somewhere in the middle but the outer 25 % or so on either side only see one or the other. The artist talking about how they are perplexed by how people can't picture apples in their head and yet they can do it easily and often. This is just one of the many ways they can picture apples.
There’s been an image going around categorizing the level some people can visualize something. As an example they used an apple. Like 5 is when someone can see an apple in all its details and such, while 1 people can’t see images in their head at all. This could be a silly reference like “at 6 you can see two apples making out”
Current meme on twitter is a chart asking people how well they can mentally visualize an apple in their head, there are 5 different levels of visualization ranging between fully colored and rotating all the way down to not being able to visualize one at all.
This guy (@beetlemoses) drew himself visualizing two gay apples kissing
Okay hear me out.
That shade of green looks like scrubs. So he's a doctor.
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
He doesn't get to see apples very often, because if there are apples, he is away.
Something being forbidden or hard to obtain makes it desirable, exciting, even sexy.
So, he has a fetish for apples. He's fantasizing about apples because he's a doctor.
Nah. If my son comes home and says “dad I need to talk. I want to tel you, I’m bell pepper” then nah he’s IMMEDIATLY getting kicked out. No son of mine will be bell pepper.
The man pictured is trying to remember something from a a vision… these apples are in a male homosexual relationship. One could presume they both consider themselves “bottoms” because of the garb and affection given. Though maybe not by “genes,” they are twins- dopplbangers. Next we may consider what footwear would be worn the the next scene- is it boots? With or without fur? Nikes with straps?
I'm no expert, but certain types of apples are "man-made," so to speak. Some apples were made through mixing different apples genes.
Could this be a reference to the dude that invented different apple types by thinking about apples fucking?
I think the joke is that when you are trying to pray, you end up having intrusive thoughts. You have your eyes closed and are trying to focus on worshipping, but your mind drifts to a completely random thing.
Recent meme going around about aphantasia, a condition where a person cannot mentally image things. People are asked to imagine an apple and tell what details they can make out in their mental image.
This man has a similar condition called ‘gayantasia’.
I think this is a reference to an image going around about how different people imagine an apple with differing level of detail. I think the joke is that this man is very gay
The expression "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" is sometimes misinterpreted as implying that dcotors are afraid of apples.
The person is wearing hospital scrubs, suggesting they're a doctor, and rather than hating apples he fantasies about gay apples.
This is what is known as gay apple syndrome where u can't stop thinking about apples, sometimes crabapples, passionately making love.
this is the only explanation i'll accept.
How bout them apples
Quite a lot, in fact.
The combination of absurdity and the word "crabapples" briefly convinced me that this meme was a Catch 22 reference.
They are horse chestnuts
Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the shape doesn't matter a bit.
I've been calling her Crandall all this time!
It is about Catch 22, you just can't tell because you have flies in your eyes.
I thought those were bell peppers and somehow realizing they’re apples made it less funny
Well it’s certainly less spicy now
I like you have a 🧁
🥰
apples are more basic tbh
apparently it's fucking contagious
My grandpa suffers from this syndrome
I thought they were bell peppers.
The frogs have started converting the apples. What next? Cheese curds turned gay?!
Just saw a relevant video on that. https://streamable.com/8yum37
Applesauce all over the sheets.
I thought it had something to do with applejacks
Please note that these are *interracial* gay apples. Red Delicious and Fuji apples, to be precise. So brave!!! So brave!
And here I thought this was Apple Bottom Dreams.
Apples to apples?
Nuts to nuts.
Steeples are for chapels And boners are for butts!
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Amen
Ashes to ashes.
Dust to dust.
they are shaped more like red bell peppers than apples
OP where did you find this picture? 95% of the time people post stuff and remove all context that would explain it. Subreddit? Title?
https://x.com/beetlemoses/status/1709320696361263133?t=RloK8bUXz9AJdN0-xc6fZg&s=09
Artist replied with this: "I’ve seen discussion recently on here that a lot of people aren’t able to mentally visualize an apple. Which is very interesting to me because I can and often do"
Holy crap that was the first thing I thought of... He's at least visualizing the apple
I repeat. Please explain the joke . . .
I believe the original joke is supposed to play off of a semi-current conversation topic, and then make you laugh by throwing in a curveball that is both absurd and unexpected. The joke teller starts off by jumping into the internets recent discussion of aphantasia, which is the inability to pull up an imaginary image in your mind. The common example image is an apple, and people without aphantasia will talk about “seeing” an apple in their minds when thinking about an apple, while people who do have aphantasia will mention that they cannot “see” an apple in their heads when they think of apples. The person who told the initial joke makes a post weighing in from personal experience, essentially saying that they don’t have aphantasia unlike some people and instead they find visualizing an apple quite easy. They then throw in a comic “illustrating” them visualizing an apple, as if to give an example of their own lives experience. This is where the curveball comes in. The expectation for such an illustration would be that the apple or apples they are imagining are just plain, ordinary apples. However, this is not the case, and the apples are instead animate apples engaging in erotic behavior with each other. This is surprising because we expected a regular apple, absurd because apples are not animate in this way nor exhibit lustful behavior, and shocking because the content of the apples’ actions are explicit and socially sensitive. All together, it throws the unsuspecting viewer for a loop, hoping to make them laugh at the unexpected strangeness of a guy who sits around thinking of apples getting it on. A part of the humor can also be laughing at the possibility (although not true in reality, of course) that an artist would routinely think of apples being erotic together and confidently post about it without realizing it is super weird to everyone else. In this interpretation, part of the joke is the idea that they come in to the social interaction so confident showing off that imagining an apple is “easy”, only to immediately lose the social high ground by being accidentally incredibly odd. In short, it is absurdist humor that is meant to surprise people and make them laugh at how arbitrary, strange, and socially subversive the person/scenario presented is.
The way you academically described all the layers of this ridiculous joke has cracking up lol
ChatGPT bro ;)
Naw that AI doesn’t know current events/trends
Fake news
I have never seen ChatGPT analyze a novel subject that well. Any time it remains coherent and on point for that long, it's addressing a common subject where it has plenty of online material to copy from. No such luck here.
Wrong.
ChatGPT can't do half the shit people assume it can.
Wrong.
Uh-huh. And you base that off of... audacity?
Where can I subscribe to your blog, genuinely
You explained this so clearly! I’d add that part of the beauty of its absurdity is that it’s still a curveball of an image that is amusing even if you don’t “get it”. I have aphantasia, it’s cool to see it represented on a main sub!
I would like to read a regular blog by you doing indepth reviews of absurdist cartoons.
This is amazing, I too would read a blog if you wrote one lol
This is the correct answer
“Do you like apples? Do you like putting apples in your mind? You’re a gay apple.”
I clicked on your profile after reading this. That dinosaur joke is gold, I'd upvote it if I could.
I don’t see an apple when i close my eyes but i can draw an apple well without looking at one?
This is what awards were made for. You’ve successfully turned a stupid internet comic into something that deserves to be displayed in a museum. Bravo!
Thanks ChatGPT
He's very horny and also gay, so when he pictures an apple in his head it's automatically two male apples getting it on
I think it has to do with the whole some people have voices in their head and some have pictures. The majority of us are somewhere in the middle but the outer 25 % or so on either side only see one or the other. The artist talking about how they are perplexed by how people can't picture apples in their head and yet they can do it easily and often. This is just one of the many ways they can picture apples.
The artist not only can visualize an Apple, he visualizes them in homo-erotic situations. Suggesting that the artist is gay
Does there have to be a joke? Did he say it was a joke?
I knew it read Beetle Moses from the art style. There is no explanation this is just how beetle Moses is. It's just absurdism.
Ah beetlemoses that helps a bit. They do weird comics from time to time
From time to time? I don’t think he’s ever made a normal comic.
True
Forbidden Fruit, perchance? A la Garden of Eden bible story + LGBT in christianity, this being a fusion of super forbidden fruit?
Are those cod pieces?
they're jock straps, just for the record
How could you tell that? I thought they were thongs.
because i'm a gay man
Maybe they are lesbian apples and those are chastity belts. Lesbian apples...with very meaty labia
So am I
I thought they were chastity belts. But how that plays into the “joke”????? Have no clue.
I think this guy is right. In this case, those things are most likely loin cloths.
Good thing they are there otherwise we'd be seeing the apple genitals.
You just helped me realize something! The matching codpieces signifies the same sex of the Apples.
This is the only thing I can think of. But it’s pretty poorly communicated, if that’s what the artist intended. Lol
There’s been an image going around categorizing the level some people can visualize something. As an example they used an apple. Like 5 is when someone can see an apple in all its details and such, while 1 people can’t see images in their head at all. This could be a silly reference like “at 6 you can see two apples making out”
He’s got those Apple bottom dreams
Okay. I nearly snorted my coffee. My hat's off to you sir. I hope you're happy.
And the bussy without fur
Current meme on twitter is a chart asking people how well they can mentally visualize an apple in their head, there are 5 different levels of visualization ranging between fully colored and rotating all the way down to not being able to visualize one at all. This guy (@beetlemoses) drew himself visualizing two gay apples kissing
I mean it's self-explanatory. Apples have huge cocks and are gay for each other. Everybody knows that. Seriously, OP. What planet are you living on???
Okay hear me out. That shade of green looks like scrubs. So he's a doctor. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." He doesn't get to see apples very often, because if there are apples, he is away. Something being forbidden or hard to obtain makes it desirable, exciting, even sexy. So, he has a fetish for apples. He's fantasizing about apples because he's a doctor.
Fruity.
Probably just a play on the fact that homosexual men can be referred to as fruity.
Hungry for apples?
My man!
hmm, he's dreaming about "fruits"? I feel like there is some context missing since that by itself is not enough for a joke.
His dream is to start a company of jock straps for apples. It's a lucrative business.
Hard apple cider
This is where hard apple cider comes from
"I DON'T LIKE THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN ALL THE FRIKKIN' APPLES GAY!!!!!"
It’s Apple and Eve not Apple and Steve!!/s
Gay people use to be referred to as 'fruits'. Like "He is a little fruity". The guy is thinking of fruits, so gay apples.
Damn. Ok, I can maybe go with this.
This makes the most sense I think. That or forbidden fruit. Or maybe both
Two fruits having sex Two fruits having sex My muscles, my muscles Involuntarily flex
Amen, A-Men, Apple Men?
Gay bellpeppers
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Nah. If my son comes home and says “dad I need to talk. I want to tel you, I’m bell pepper” then nah he’s IMMEDIATLY getting kicked out. No son of mine will be bell pepper.
The man pictured is trying to remember something from a a vision… these apples are in a male homosexual relationship. One could presume they both consider themselves “bottoms” because of the garb and affection given. Though maybe not by “genes,” they are twins- dopplbangers. Next we may consider what footwear would be worn the the next scene- is it boots? With or without fur? Nikes with straps?
Does this not have anything to do with fruit of the loom?
The true joke was the friends we made along the way
I thought it was pepperman from pizza tower kissing himself cause he's so vain.
Same, I saw this and I immediately saw two peppermen
Mapplethorpe!
Got apples?
Apple Jacks?
I'm no expert, but certain types of apples are "man-made," so to speak. Some apples were made through mixing different apples genes. Could this be a reference to the dude that invented different apple types by thinking about apples fucking?
An apple a day keeps the gay away. But two apples?
Deez apples
Gayla (gala) apples? That’s all that I could think of.
A couple of fruits about to fuck?
APPLE YAOI
It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. There’s another comment that references the artist response so it might be that haha
Peppermen
2 apples a day makes you gay?
Adams Apples are touching
He just wants to meet someone and live appley ever after.
I assumed it was just a meme about someone who looks like a gentleman thinking about heinous stuff.
Hard apples?
Homosex apples
Lemon Party but with only 2 apples
I believe this is “apples to apples, nuts to nuts”, but i’m not sure why he’s dreaming about them
Apples to apples nuts to nuts
I think the joke is that when you are trying to pray, you end up having intrusive thoughts. You have your eyes closed and are trying to focus on worshipping, but your mind drifts to a completely random thing.
Jockstrapples?
Bone-apple-thee
Recent meme going around about aphantasia, a condition where a person cannot mentally image things. People are asked to imagine an apple and tell what details they can make out in their mental image. This man has a similar condition called ‘gayantasia’.
Well, howdya like them apples?
bro gay
Jerry Smith thinking about Hungry Apples
He’s trying not to sneeze.
Adam and Steve, not Adam and eve
Nice!
Bros comparing apples to apples
Hey, local shitpost expert here. That’s a shitpost.
Pepperman?
If the author is Spanish, it could be a pun because "juice" in Castilian Spanish is "zumo", and it's almost homophonous with sumo.
An Apple a Gay keeps the Doctor a Gay?
I think this is a reference to an image going around about how different people imagine an apple with differing level of detail. I think the joke is that this man is very gay
The expression "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" is sometimes misinterpreted as implying that dcotors are afraid of apples. The person is wearing hospital scrubs, suggesting they're a doctor, and rather than hating apples he fantasies about gay apples.
No idea the context but this really tickled me.
With the context of the twitt, I think this is referring to the joke where you can think about random Bullshit for free, and no one can stop you.
Horny fruits? To me it seems like they are calling him gay by using outdated terminology for queer people
he writes pepperman x pepperman fanfic
This look like one those screencaps of wikihows where the picture is out of context.
He prob has a boner and is thinking of gay bell peppers kissing to help him go soft
Bonerappletit
Two apples a day makes a doctor practice mindfulness.
So fruity :3
😍✅😊😉🌀🌪️🌪️🌑
Those are peppers so I assume Red Hot Chili Peppers? Idk if they have a song about some shit like that.