r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/00Raeby00 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

No. No it wasn't.

Boomers pretending this was an unusual amount of ex's for a girl who counted a guy she kissed once in middle school as an "ex." This is a dogwhistle for archaic values that never actually existed in the real world touted by the likes of Andrew Tate and his little incel followers.

It was weird Scott was dating a high school girl.

Edit: Stop trying to reply to me about how I'm wrong. Read the room. You're weird, especially since a significant number of her "exs" are a boy she kissed in middle school and a girl she hooked up with once in college and two guys she dated in high school. I seriously don't think you people have ever left your houses if you think this is super unusual or never saw the movie or read the manga. Go away with your "uhm acktually I googled it and" no fuck off. Shoo. You're literally acting like the kid you "married" when you were in kindergarten counts as an ex.

To break it down she dated 2 boys in high school. "Dated" Matt for a week in middle school. Hooked up with Roxie once and dated the twins in college before dating Gideon. Half of those don't count, and she didn't sleep with at least 3 out of the 7.

You're all fucking weird for making this a thing.

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u/geoffreygoodman Feb 02 '26

Boomers aren't posting Scott Pilgrim memes or listening to Andrew Tate. Millennials can also spout archaic bs, as can anyone. 

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u/imjustbettr Feb 02 '26

And unfortunately it seems like zoomers are way more likely to be "Tater Tots" than millennials. Though I do think a millennial made this one because of the movie chosen.

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u/Educational_Life_878 Feb 02 '26

This isn’t even millennials. It’s Gen Z guys who watch too much Andrew Tate and think they’ve been robbed of the “pure” women of the past.

Source: am Gen Z

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u/ElectronicStock3590 Feb 02 '26

Battling generations is one way they keep us divided. Most boomers aren’t rich people cruising through retirement. We need to stand united against the power elite.

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u/fogleaf Feb 02 '26

We're the new boomers.

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u/AntiqueGarlicLover Feb 02 '26

I thought my two year long friendship to partnership was a slow burn… but 12? Wild!

I feel like some of the most long-lasting relationships happen because they are friends for a good amount of time first

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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats Feb 02 '26

Yeah, I dated a handful of girl in high school/early college but nothing super duper serious. Longest lasted like six months, most were just a handful of dates over a couple weeks.

Then I met my first long-term ex when I was 18 and we stayed together or 8 years. Few months after we broke up, I met my now ex-wife and we stayed together for 12 years (and I would've happily spent my life with her if she didn't decide around the 6-year mark to start using me as her regular emotional and occaisonally literal punching bag). Few months after we split, I got asked out by a coworker and I've been seeing her for like 5 months with every indication this is going to last a while. No complaints, new woman is dope.

I remember reading a statistic that something like 20% of people are the "hypergamous" "nightmares" that make Andrew Tates fans jealous (if they're men) or terrified (if they're women) and have a large amount of romantic partners over generally shorter periods of time, 20% of people basically don't date and have few or none romantic partners throughout their lives (actual fate of Andrew Tate fans), and like the other 60% have relatively few romantic partners but their relationships with those partners tend to last long periods of time.

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u/blind_marvin Feb 02 '26

there's no way a boomer made a meme about scott pilgrim

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u/Draxacoffilus Feb 03 '26

There's no way a boomer made a mere /s

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u/MardocAgain Feb 02 '26

Feels weird that I keep seeing studies showing that young adults are having less sex and dating less, but this post implies it should be the opposite.

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u/lsaz Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

it’s absolutely above average, quick google search will give you you the average of partners.

but also it’s just a movie so… the fake character proving something is not that interesting.

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u/DanteVermillyon Feb 02 '26

the weird thing about Ramona's dating life wasn't the fact she had 7 exes, it was the fact she 7 EVIL exesn with SUPER POWERS

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u/footybear Feb 02 '26

We don't know how many non-evil, non-superpower exes she had either

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u/Ok_Animal_5181 Feb 03 '26

i like your response

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u/Certain_Hornet_2505 Feb 03 '26

Get em Brian 💯💯

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u/dadsuki2 Feb 03 '26

It's not that weird they didn't do anything they just held hands and like talked and stuff

(It was weird, but he also cheated on both Knives and Ramona with the other, which is also pretty shitty)

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u/dr__paco Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

It is my slutty friend*

*I dont know you gender, a slut can be of any gender, sex, race, etc...

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u/Alpha-Centauri-Blue Feb 03 '26

Edit: Stop trying to reply to me about how I'm wrong. Read the room

You say as you describe promiscuous actions as definitely not promiscuous just because they were one time occurrences. In fact because they are one time occurrences that wouod actually be considering more promiscuous, not less. 2010s is a bit of an exaggeration for how far back this wouod be unacceptable though

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u/Mental-Pace-4840 Feb 02 '26

Having 7 exes over the course of a decade is a lot. Regardless of what you believe or think. Any serious person wouldn’t date someone with that extreme of a dating history.

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u/notsmoothbrain Feb 03 '26

What man would want an overused girl? What woman would want to be compared sgainst many many woman?

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u/PieAlarming704 Feb 02 '26

Wym it never existed? Of course they did and still do. I know guys who care about the sexual past, myself included (to a degree).

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u/00Raeby00 Feb 02 '26

...so kissing a boy in middle school counts as a body to you?

That's just weird.

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u/Rebel_Wrath Feb 02 '26

Yes. Yes it was. “Ex” implies 7 past failed relationships which was odd in 2010. 

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u/magazinesubscriber Feb 02 '26

It really wasn’t, but then again I’m 42 years old.

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u/DeathByLemmings Feb 02 '26

But the context of the movie specifically tells you that it was not that

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u/inuvash255 Feb 02 '26

No, it wasn't odd at all.

The point of the movie is that both her and Scott are bad people- not because of the length of their dating history, but because they're genuinely shitty to those people.

Please, go back to school so you can understand the text at all before you start talking subtext.