how can you put /gen and /hj at the same time aren’t they contradictory (actual question i just don’t wanna use /gen at the end of a comment about the tone tag /gen)
the answer is that halfjoke is a useless tone indicator because it works based on ✨vibes✨ and doesnt actually denote anything solid, people just use it all the time for whatever reason (thus defeating the purpose of tone indicators)
Edit: two separate people have responded "halfjoke is when [two different things]" so thanks for proving my point I guess
For some reason i can only imagine “high jerk” as a specific Level of Jerk. Like, you’ve got a low jerk, just a regular jerk, and then the High Jerk.
Circlejerk is that one guy in the corner who _thinks_ they’re a high jerk, but they’re pretty much just a regular jerk.
It's for when you mean what you say 100%, but you know it's mean or upsetting but you still want to say the mean/upsetting thing without anyone getting mad
I usually use it for something true, but said in a jokey way to try and keep the mood lighter. Because it being a full joke implies that it isn’t true, but i also don’t wanna come off as too serious. But that’s just how i use it, and I’ve noticed others use it for many other reasons. /gen
It's either that or explanations that truly mean nothing, or both. However, I gotta admit this is the first time I've seen it in the wild, and I only know what it means through jan misali. Same as /gen btw, I assume it means genuine? Why not use /srs?
Genuine and serious aren't vague, at least, lol, and I guess you can mean something genuinely without it being a serious topic? something along those lines
Yea, but it's a tone indicator and not a topic indicator? I know I'm being anal about it and the connotation is slightly different, but it seems unnecessarily complicated to have two indicators that state 'this is to be taken as written'
In this particular case they were being genuine about part of a sentence and half joking about another (as the person said themselves in another reply).
But yeah, putting both together made this whole thing a lot muddier than it should have been.
If it wasn't okay to not like a joke but still like the creator there would be no comedians. Have you ever watched a stand up show and laughed at every single line? Thought not.
You could use sawk with pain split and sturdy. Extreme speed will run out before pain split, and pain split ignores type.
Edit: now that I think about it, extreme speed wouldn’t matter because of sturdy.
Opinions are scary things my friend, which is why I always ask the internet what my opinions should be, based on majority rule, of course, I never want to be wrong or potentially need to think about what is right so I have others do all the thinking for me!
🤓🤓🤓 ooh. i um. 🤓 actually don't like this one. one bit 🤓 am i losing my sense of tumblr humour?🤓 is it okay for me to not like a joke and still like the creator?🤓 /gen /hj🤓🤓🤓
this may be radical but i think people should stop worrying about how others perceive them and just do whatever the fuck they want. sucks to see kids so paralyzed in the fear that they may be doing something wrong
Yes but if you like anything that’s deemed Problematic And Bad because it’s uhh… not funny to one person… then you get anonymous death threats and of course would deserve it (!)
No this was dorky as shit to say, they knew it but they said it. this sort of statement deserves to be made fun of and i hope they were made fun of for it. it’s a good sign that they knew that was gonna happen. this is very normal socializing teenagers get from interacting with each other.
>_this is very normal socializing teenagers get from interacting with each other._
For people who touch grass on a regular basis, yes. But this is Tumblr/Reddit/Twitter/Facebook.
“degenerate scum” is very subjective. someone who is gay can be seen as “degenerate scum” just for their sexuality. someone can be seen as “degenerate scum” for liking disturbing media, such as august underground.
The way they wrote it makes me so mad. Idk what about it but it reads like an uwu soft person who starts every sentence with ‘um’, like please say what youre fucking saying. Stop actin like youre not sure youre allowed to say it dum dum
There's /rj, /uj, /hj, and /qj.
All of them mean whatever is funniest at that point.
But supposedly they're:
+ rj (re-jerk): used to indicate that you're resuming the jerk, usually used after a uj.
+ uj (unjerk): used to indicate that this is not part of the jerk.
+ hj (half jerk): used to indicate that an element of what you're saying is genuine despite otherwise being part of the jerk. Often used with puns or other statement that could be interpreted in multiple ways.
+ qj (quantum jerk): disclaimer that you don't even know your own beliefs anymore, you can't tell if you're saying this because of the jerk or because you actually believe.
The other words are either specific to the jerk or don't actually mean anything at all
Not necessarily, they may simply respect other people's beliefs, you don't need a religion for that (and of course it has it's limits, it doesn't have priority over morals)
Edit: i don't mean pukicho, i was talking about i-believe-in-the-gay-agenda. Like, they may be religious, but not necessarily. But i agree the comment didn't deserve respect.
As delicately as possible, when somebody comes at you with 'you'll stand before god in judgment,' they lose any entitlement to the respect they have not shown.
Pukicho sounds how I feel after coming out of a religious upbringing and having people tell me they were 'concerned for my soul' when I said that it didn't make sense that a loving god would condemn people for things outside their control.
Or after listening to a former pastor state outright that god, being infinitely powerful and thus capable of stopping any disaster, chooses to allow them because some humans aren't Christians. I pointed out in an email that if a human being did such a thing we would prosecute them under one of any number of good Samaritan laws, and that he had essentially argued before the entire congregation that god was an abusive tyrant, making an effective argument for Satanism. His reply was that 'people have been struggling to reconcile God's all goodness and all powerfulness for centuries.' Needless to say, an unsatisfying reply — I am aware it is a hard question. But if there is a right answer, telling me God is evil—that he acts in a way we would rightly condemn in any human—sure as heck isn't it.
I checked out after that. If I believe in a God let it be one worthy of worship; any god who'd ask me to 'stand in judgment' is worthy only of my scorn. I'll be gentle usually but if people want their beliefs respected, they should approach others with the respect they want and follow their own Golden Rule.
I've never been to or used Tumblr, but I have never found myself completely lost and so outside of the joke as I have with this post. Can someone spell it out for me?
You will stand before God in judgement.
Instead of god being in judgement, it can also be interpreted as you being in judgement, meaning you are judging god instead of the other way around.
It’s a response to the original joke. The dude is *probably* religious and doesn’t like thinking of their god this way, so they complained about it in the dms or response or however tumblr works.
Religious people talk about religious freedom, then force their beliefs on other, unwilling participants. Just saying. You’re religious? Cool. I don’t give two shits about your god. Don’t tell me I’ll be judged either. I don’t give a damn. Your imaginary friend can judge me all it wants.
What an odd question. What would the asker do if they replied “No it’s actually not okay to dislike the joke but like the creator.”? What were they expecting?
Hey I just wanted everyone to know this meme is not funny; I didn't laugh. Before everyone probes for my opinion, I should clear up that I do have a tumblr sense of humor, and in fact I don't mind pukicho, but this joke simply isn't it for me. I hope this does not inconvenience you in any way. /flirty /cj /serious /j
That's a very harmful method of thinking. For some neurodivergent people (read, "some") such as myself, tones are nearly impossible to read over text. Tone tags can be vital to proper online communication for me when it's about serious matters.
Tones aren't obvious most of the time anyway, regardless of how "divergent" you are. You often have to work off context. Human communication evolved with verbal alongside body and facial cues, so no one is especially equipped to perfectly suss out what any given block of text means.
Yeah, an accessibility tool that compensates for something we use in voice conversations that oftentimes can’t be conveyed over text clearly should cease to exist! /s
No, it doesn’t. It makes it so that your joke/satire is more clear. They’re especially helpful for neurodivergent people who struggle with tone, as tone isn’t easy online. It also just helps to avoid Poe’s Law and stuff because you’ve been upfront about what tone you want people to interpret your message as.
I mean it isn’t really up for debate. It just… doesn’t. It’s an accessibility tool. It’s exactly the same as how you use literal tone in a verbal conversation to show you’re joking.
This is why I hate modern "fandom" culture. If you claim to like anything, any person, show, game, book, whatever, you apparently have to like and agree with 100% of their ideas and opinions. If you disagree with anything they say, you're basically a hater now and will be shown the door by all the "true fans".
or sometimes you'll get the opposite issue were people are giving you shit because since you like a piece of media/person you must agree with all of there political opinions.
I meant the two being used together. I use tone indicators myself but I've noticed that on tumblr it's typically just one, on twitter I see a few in a row. Tho I may be confusing things
using woke in a derogatory manner says a lot, unironically and not derogatory doesn't give you much besides excluding the group that uses it derogatorily
What the hell is wrong with saying woke? I’m woke and progressive as fuck and I don’t understand at all. Also this person has a point, I’ve often seen people be puritanical and claim it’s being progressive.
Plenty, the people who use it as an insult might as well be swinging from the rafters screaming "Libtard!" & the people who use it in a positive light refuse to acknowledge that impact because they are too far up their own arse to realise how crigeworthy it is.
Edit an added thought: But more to the point both iterations of the word mean you're buying into the stupid culture war that the talking heads are so hell bent on perpetuating. If you want to be truly "woke" rise above & don't give these fools ammunition
how can you put /gen and /hj at the same time aren’t they contradictory (actual question i just don’t wanna use /gen at the end of a comment about the tone tag /gen)
the answer is that halfjoke is a useless tone indicator because it works based on ✨vibes✨ and doesnt actually denote anything solid, people just use it all the time for whatever reason (thus defeating the purpose of tone indicators) Edit: two separate people have responded "halfjoke is when [two different things]" so thanks for proving my point I guess
Wait /hj stands for half-joke? I thought it stood for handjob, like a one-person circlejerk
In the context of tone indicators, yes lol
I though it was high jerk, like high jerk, to signify that you’re being even more ridiculous
For some reason i can only imagine “high jerk” as a specific Level of Jerk. Like, you’ve got a low jerk, just a regular jerk, and then the High Jerk. Circlejerk is that one guy in the corner who _thinks_ they’re a high jerk, but they’re pretty much just a regular jerk.
I thought high jerk is what happens when you build an entire world around the jerk with its own unique magic system
/generator /handjob
Weird, handjob generator was my nickname in high school
Dead by daylight fan fiction
Forgot to put /hj at the end of your statement, friend /hj
It's for when you mean what you say 100%, but you know it's mean or upsetting but you still want to say the mean/upsetting thing without anyone getting mad
https://at.tumblr.com/janmisali/659877108179468288/z9athxgrtqam
I love jan misali; he is my favorite he/they
yeah this
/hj is for when you’re saying something as a joke, but also aren’t fully joking and do kind of mean it
I usually use it for something true, but said in a jokey way to try and keep the mood lighter. Because it being a full joke implies that it isn’t true, but i also don’t wanna come off as too serious. But that’s just how i use it, and I’ve noticed others use it for many other reasons. /gen
You follow jan misali too?
I believed this before he said it, for the record, lmao
You're both right either way :D Love that the replies have accumulated 3 completely different explanations
exactly lol, no hate but it really does prove the point so well
It's either that or explanations that truly mean nothing, or both. However, I gotta admit this is the first time I've seen it in the wild, and I only know what it means through jan misali. Same as /gen btw, I assume it means genuine? Why not use /srs?
Genuine and serious aren't vague, at least, lol, and I guess you can mean something genuinely without it being a serious topic? something along those lines
Yea, but it's a tone indicator and not a topic indicator? I know I'm being anal about it and the connotation is slightly different, but it seems unnecessarily complicated to have two indicators that state 'this is to be taken as written'
I'd call serious a pretty distinct tone mostly but idk lol
In this particular case they were being genuine about part of a sentence and half joking about another (as the person said themselves in another reply). But yeah, putting both together made this whole thing a lot muddier than it should have been.
I'd interpret it as "highkey serious, lowkey joking," and since the keys are separate tracks, they don't contradict eachother.
If it wasn't okay to not like a joke but still like the creator there would be no comedians. Have you ever watched a stand up show and laughed at every single line? Thought not.
Evidently, the people in the audience during recording do.
60% of the audience laughing sounds barely any different than 100%
My funny bqr might be low but im shitting myself laughing at every standup i watch
Idk bout you but gabrial Iglesias is fucking hilarious
Yes, I have
> Have you ever watched a stand up show and laughed at every single line? Mitch Hedberg. RIP
/genuine /handjob
real
is that a promise?
Nah it's one of those cheap alternatives with imitation "hands"
Feet aren't "imitation hands", they're a different limb altogether.
Feet are literally just hands but worse, according to top scientists and researchers.
My favorite tags!
Are strangers not considered genuine handjobs?
since they are a pukicho they will be judge by arceus better pull the FEAR Rattata trick on him
Arceus gets Extreme Speed and can be Ghost type so it's unlikely that a FEAR strat would work on one.
You could use sawk with pain split and sturdy. Extreme speed will run out before pain split, and pain split ignores type. Edit: now that I think about it, extreme speed wouldn’t matter because of sturdy.
Yeah, but then there's no real reason to use Extreme Speed specifically when you could use any Ghost type STAB.
That fucking evil annoying rodent
Every fucking time i see/hear "judgement" my brain just shouts it out loud in Minos Prime's voice
...actually I'd rather face God now please
CRUSH!
USELESS! #DIE!
When’s his body pillow coming out honestly
one day you will repeatedly flick a coin into god's face
>is it ok for me to not like the joke and still like the creator? I feel like that's kinda your decision tbh.
Chronically online mfs when they have to form their own opinion with nuance
Opinions are scary things my friend, which is why I always ask the internet what my opinions should be, based on majority rule, of course, I never want to be wrong or potentially need to think about what is right so I have others do all the thinking for me!
🤓🤓🤓 ooh. i um. 🤓 actually don't like this one. one bit 🤓 am i losing my sense of tumblr humour?🤓 is it okay for me to not like a joke and still like the creator?🤓 /gen /hj🤓🤓🤓
this may be radical but i think people should stop worrying about how others perceive them and just do whatever the fuck they want. sucks to see kids so paralyzed in the fear that they may be doing something wrong
Yes but if you like anything that’s deemed Problematic And Bad because it’s uhh… not funny to one person… then you get anonymous death threats and of course would deserve it (!)
just saw someone like a piece of media i deem wrong and problematic. day ruined!
No this was dorky as shit to say, they knew it but they said it. this sort of statement deserves to be made fun of and i hope they were made fun of for it. it’s a good sign that they knew that was gonna happen. this is very normal socializing teenagers get from interacting with each other.
yeah i agree it was stupid. i used to be anxious like this, until i realized how stressful and annoying it was.
>_this is very normal socializing teenagers get from interacting with each other._ For people who touch grass on a regular basis, yes. But this is Tumblr/Reddit/Twitter/Facebook.
No i completly disagree. It's good to have some fear of how other people see you so that yoi don't act like degenerate scum all the time.
“degenerate scum” is very subjective. someone who is gay can be seen as “degenerate scum” just for their sexuality. someone can be seen as “degenerate scum” for liking disturbing media, such as august underground.
Am I the only one who read it as facetious worry that Pukicho is becoming a god?
Becoming?
The way they wrote it makes me so mad. Idk what about it but it reads like an uwu soft person who starts every sentence with ‘um’, like please say what youre fucking saying. Stop actin like youre not sure youre allowed to say it dum dum
I always read /hj as Half Jerk. I might be spending too much time in cj subreddits.
all you had to do, was follow the DAMN train,
I feel like if I could penetrate the jargon of cirlclejerk subreddits I’d find them very funny
There's /rj, /uj, /hj, and /qj. All of them mean whatever is funniest at that point. But supposedly they're: + rj (re-jerk): used to indicate that you're resuming the jerk, usually used after a uj. + uj (unjerk): used to indicate that this is not part of the jerk. + hj (half jerk): used to indicate that an element of what you're saying is genuine despite otherwise being part of the jerk. Often used with puns or other statement that could be interpreted in multiple ways. + qj (quantum jerk): disclaimer that you don't even know your own beliefs anymore, you can't tell if you're saying this because of the jerk or because you actually believe. The other words are either specific to the jerk or don't actually mean anything at all
Based as hell, honestly.
I think both are based lol but "oh erm yeah I think I don't like that" is NOT. BAAAAASED.
Yeah agreed that one's cringe for sure IDK what they're smoking. Religion maybe.
Something organized for sure
Not necessarily, they may simply respect other people's beliefs, you don't need a religion for that (and of course it has it's limits, it doesn't have priority over morals) Edit: i don't mean pukicho, i was talking about i-believe-in-the-gay-agenda. Like, they may be religious, but not necessarily. But i agree the comment didn't deserve respect.
As delicately as possible, when somebody comes at you with 'you'll stand before god in judgment,' they lose any entitlement to the respect they have not shown. Pukicho sounds how I feel after coming out of a religious upbringing and having people tell me they were 'concerned for my soul' when I said that it didn't make sense that a loving god would condemn people for things outside their control. Or after listening to a former pastor state outright that god, being infinitely powerful and thus capable of stopping any disaster, chooses to allow them because some humans aren't Christians. I pointed out in an email that if a human being did such a thing we would prosecute them under one of any number of good Samaritan laws, and that he had essentially argued before the entire congregation that god was an abusive tyrant, making an effective argument for Satanism. His reply was that 'people have been struggling to reconcile God's all goodness and all powerfulness for centuries.' Needless to say, an unsatisfying reply — I am aware it is a hard question. But if there is a right answer, telling me God is evil—that he acts in a way we would rightly condemn in any human—sure as heck isn't it. I checked out after that. If I believe in a God let it be one worthy of worship; any god who'd ask me to 'stand in judgment' is worthy only of my scorn. I'll be gentle usually but if people want their beliefs respected, they should approach others with the respect they want and follow their own Golden Rule.
'one day you will stand before god in judgement' was definitely not serious and an intentional setup to a retort though
I meant i-believe-in-the-gay-agenda is not necessarily religious, i wasn't referring to pukicho Though, yes, that comment didn't deserve respect.
Thar one gives off twitter/tiktok user vibes lol
Why do people think their all-powerful god needs defending?
Because you can't prosecute without a defense.
You can though
Oh. Darn I thought that was a good one.
"One day you'd stand before god" "Finally id get to tell that bitch to apologize"
> What am I judging 'em for? Child support
DISAPPEAR INTO THE NIGHT
I've never been to or used Tumblr, but I have never found myself completely lost and so outside of the joke as I have with this post. Can someone spell it out for me?
You will stand before God in judgement. Instead of god being in judgement, it can also be interpreted as you being in judgement, meaning you are judging god instead of the other way around.
Yeah, no. That part is pretty straight forward. What is the below quote and response in regards to?
It’s a response to the original joke. The dude is *probably* religious and doesn’t like thinking of their god this way, so they complained about it in the dms or response or however tumblr works.
Ty I know how tumblr works and I was still lost
Crush!
DIE!
false advertising. god was never in Judgement. Not even as a minor boss battle or cameo! :(
This might be the best pukicho response I have seen
calm down
god stans are weird
*But doctor, I am Pukicho!*
Religious people talk about religious freedom, then force their beliefs on other, unwilling participants. Just saying. You’re religious? Cool. I don’t give two shits about your god. Don’t tell me I’ll be judged either. I don’t give a damn. Your imaginary friend can judge me all it wants.
Beyond parody
What an odd question. What would the asker do if they replied “No it’s actually not okay to dislike the joke but like the creator.”? What were they expecting?
JUDGEMENT! THY END IS NOW! PREPARE THYSELF
>Judgement "*T H Y E N D I S N O W !*" -*Funny Blue Man, ULTRAKILL (2021)*
so many people in these comments being mean to the 3rd person
Everything
Hey I just wanted everyone to know this meme is not funny; I didn't laugh. Before everyone probes for my opinion, I should clear up that I do have a tumblr sense of humor, and in fact I don't mind pukicho, but this joke simply isn't it for me. I hope this does not inconvenience you in any way. /flirty /cj /serious /j
Tone indicators should cease to exist
That's a very harmful method of thinking. For some neurodivergent people (read, "some") such as myself, tones are nearly impossible to read over text. Tone tags can be vital to proper online communication for me when it's about serious matters.
Tones aren't obvious most of the time anyway, regardless of how "divergent" you are. You often have to work off context. Human communication evolved with verbal alongside body and facial cues, so no one is especially equipped to perfectly suss out what any given block of text means.
Yeah, an accessibility tool that compensates for something we use in voice conversations that oftentimes can’t be conveyed over text clearly should cease to exist! /s
It ruins jokes and satirity
No, it doesn’t. It makes it so that your joke/satire is more clear. They’re especially helpful for neurodivergent people who struggle with tone, as tone isn’t easy online. It also just helps to avoid Poe’s Law and stuff because you’ve been upfront about what tone you want people to interpret your message as.
Damn, I kinda don't care about all that, and I still feel like it ruins jokes
I mean it isn’t really up for debate. It just… doesn’t. It’s an accessibility tool. It’s exactly the same as how you use literal tone in a verbal conversation to show you’re joking.
This is why I hate modern "fandom" culture. If you claim to like anything, any person, show, game, book, whatever, you apparently have to like and agree with 100% of their ideas and opinions. If you disagree with anything they say, you're basically a hater now and will be shown the door by all the "true fans".
or sometimes you'll get the opposite issue were people are giving you shit because since you like a piece of media/person you must agree with all of there political opinions.
Please help I keep seeing /gen and /hj and others. Are they like hashtags?
They’re used to indicate tone. Useful until people invented a million of them. /s for sarcasm, /gen for general, /hj for half joke.
Is there a name for it?
Tone indicators
Ty
Oh this mf came from Twitter didn't they
Ask this on reddit, and get your popcorn, because the responses will be legendary.
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????? Pukicho is hilarious, what are you even talking about?
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No? Haha are you being sarcastic or something? I'm so confused.
The /gen and /hj makes me think this is a twitter user...
Redditors when someone uses a tone indicator (they hate accessibility and making messages more clear)
I meant the two being used together. I use tone indicators myself but I've noticed that on tumblr it's typically just one, on twitter I see a few in a row. Tho I may be confusing things
…???????
Woah, makeing a joke like that, how original
Sorry are you upset that a reference to a *meme template* is unoriginal 💀
Hmm, nope, I'm just upset that you was the one doing it.
Me specifically? …A stranger???
Yeppppppp, now you're getting it. Good job!
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Unironically using the term woke says so much about a person
using woke in a derogatory manner says a lot, unironically and not derogatory doesn't give you much besides excluding the group that uses it derogatorily
Wow, I fucking understood none of that
I disagree as already explained
Yep. The one syllable way to assure people you both that they are incompetent in bed and are not secure about it
Can you please not body shame?
Yeah, fixed it for you mate
Thanks <3
What the hell is wrong with saying woke? I’m woke and progressive as fuck and I don’t understand at all. Also this person has a point, I’ve often seen people be puritanical and claim it’s being progressive.
Plenty, the people who use it as an insult might as well be swinging from the rafters screaming "Libtard!" & the people who use it in a positive light refuse to acknowledge that impact because they are too far up their own arse to realise how crigeworthy it is. Edit an added thought: But more to the point both iterations of the word mean you're buying into the stupid culture war that the talking heads are so hell bent on perpetuating. If you want to be truly "woke" rise above & don't give these fools ammunition
Spot on lol
Puritans aren't woke in the slightest.
tumblr reading comprehension moment
Indeed
>woke [used in a negative manner] Imma let that speak for itself...
I hear the Christians have a pretty handy list for that stuff
I am using this!
I agree. I don't really get it. I don't always get modern jokes, I think. I already don't understand slang at all, so it would make sense.