The last one tho 💀 Like, the ship is already DECEASED at the bottom of the ocean, ya’ll did not need to cast Vicious Mockery on its corpse 😭 old timey gallows humor was ruthless but GOD it was funny

EDIT: Hey guys, I found the original thread, there’s even more roasts in there!

https://x.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1382501127111933954

    • vateso5074@lemmy.world
      16·
      6 天前

      I don’t think they had the vocabulary to describe the concept of a memelord back then, so guessing that ‘poets’ would be the next best descriptor for someone who does funny things with words.

      Basically “If the survivors knew how badly the Titanic was going to get memed on, they might have wished they died there instead.”

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 天前

        Certainly possible, but I tend to think something else, assuming the quote is real. I think it’s literally about bad poetry. In the collective grief after the sinking, undoubtedly many people who were not and would never be professional poets attempted to write something in memoriam. Some of these were undoubtedly published in various papers. This blurb has the feel of a Twain or Bierce or especially a Mencken, where an educated cynic is calling out the earnest-but-unskilled for their lack of self-awareness in thinking they had a quality contribution to the public discussion.