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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Zuck clearly put it there as a joke/Easter egg. I know it's weird, but dystopian multibillionnaires whose life's work undermines the very foundations of democracy around the world can have a (bad) sense of humor too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it’s an Easter egg. Zuck did a bbq livestream like 12 years ago featuring sweet baby rays and it became a meme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He probably thought it'd humanize him to be so quirky and silly!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deep Zuck lore.

Is there like a billionaires.fandom.com

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even jokes by dystopian multibillionnaires whose life’s work undermines the very foundations of democracy around the world that have a (bad) sense of humor can fail.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a sneaking suspicion that Zuck hides bottles of Sweet Baby Rays around the house and makes you chug them like a frat boy hazing with Smirnoff Ice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was at his place one time practicing Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and he cut a hole in the nipple of his shirt and insisted on breast feeding me Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a bit of self referencial humor. Like 15 years ago zuck did a live stream or something. On that Livestream he kept awkwardly talking about how much he loves sweet baby Ray's bbq sauce.

I think he did that because knows how detached he comes off as. He was a weirdo before he became a billionaire, and being a part of a separated class of society only made that worse. He also knows how everyone on earth thinks that he's a distrustful person. Plus he's just clearly not comfortable being on camera.

It was basically a failed attempt to come off as relatable and down to earth by sharing something that he has a passion for. Which apparently is grilling. I get it, I like grilling too. But I won't ever be tasked with trying to use that one interest I have as my entire public personality.

He tried something like that before. The reason he wears plain looking tshirts and pants is because it makes him come off as "like one of us" and that he remembers that he came from nothing like the rest of us. But then a few years ago it came out that the black Tshirts he wears costs like $400 each and so does the rest of his outfit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

15 years?! That happened in 2018 lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You have to consider the 10 years that it took for 2019-2022 to happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
  1. Why do you ask?
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think it might now be an in joke for all his adoring fans, lol. He doesn't seem like the type to have a plan to do this, so is it his marketing Dept trying to make him seem funny and relatable? The level of stage management seems preposterous for such a bad joke prop. Do they struggle that much to make him relatable or is Facebook just really bad at or and marketing as they don't need to be due to network effect driving their growth rather than product or traditional marketing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's a little of both. I can't imagine being so widely mocked to the point that people don't even think you're a real human being anymore feels good. Even if you're a multi billionaire. But a lot of it is probably just marketing. There's no way zuck had anything to do with the props on that scene. That was probably some uncredited cameraman's idea.

Facebook is so detached from what people want. They don't know how to make products that people want, and they don't know how to market them in a way to make us buy them anyways. Remember that weird video call thing they tried to sell a while ago that no one bought? They're still trying to sell that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To go with beans

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like he accidentally set his hands on some bbq sauce he spilled the night before and hasn’t found a sink yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He's always prepared to grill some meats.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It's a spy camera trying to catch a glimpse of his messages on Signal.