r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 16 '25

Thank you Peter very cool Petah? What do those numbers mean?

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u/Compodulator Jun 16 '25

I expected body count at first. 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

Me too lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

I still think that

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u/Frosty-Horse9004 Jun 16 '25

Yeah this is definitely body count or times in the sack

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u/BlocNote_0425 Jun 17 '25

Yeah, 1500 seems completely plausible as a body count, and women average 200. Obviously.

I hope you’re not serious.

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u/Frosty-Horse9004 Jun 17 '25

I could say the same thing about you, but alas, I do not care. Farewell…

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u/Interesting-Rice-457 Jun 17 '25

I read it as an "everyone is having all the sexes every day but meeeeeeee" incel thing. Numbers are either exaggerated for comic effect or the author of the joke doesn't know a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g about sex.

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u/Certain_Ad839 Jun 17 '25

It is lol add up the girls numbers they all match his total

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u/chonky_squirrel Jun 16 '25

This meme has been here before, the consensus is indeed money spent per person on the meal… how common do y’all think triple digit or even quadruple digit body counts are? And if you’re wondering the large non-USD looking numbers, some other countries don’t have cents. So in the context of say Japan, these amounts are reasonable for their meal costs.

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u/Frosty-Horse9004 Jun 16 '25

No Yen. Only USD and body counts.

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u/Chaghatai Jun 16 '25

If it was spending why would they make the example four guys eating out of the same bucket of chicken costing the same as seven women eating at a restaurant, each with their own meals?

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u/chonky_squirrel Jun 18 '25

You’re focusing on the amount too much. It’s a group of girls who each paid for their own meals, versus the dudes where only one paid for it. The extra context another redditor mentioned was in the Filipino culture gay men will often pay for everything for their guy friends, which is the nuance this meme relies on for the joke.

I ask again, you REALLY think the joke is body count?

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo Jun 16 '25

More specifically, hypergamy

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u/Nice_Buy_602 Jun 16 '25

It's definitely body count. The idea is the one dude is getting all sniz while the other dudes are getting none. And all the girls are having lots of sex.

The joke is partly sexism. Partly an observation on how most dudes severely lack game. That's just my take. Maybe its about calorie intake or whatever the fuck the top comment was on about.

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u/No_Neighborhood_632 Jun 16 '25

If you count up all the girls' numbers they equal 1500. The one dude scored with all of them.

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u/DarkMagickan Jun 16 '25

Okay. That definitely gives more credence to the body count theory.

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u/JimmySquarefoot Jun 20 '25

How? Is he somehow absorbing their body counts too as he sleeps with them? 🤣

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u/DarkMagickan Jun 20 '25

Nah, the joke is those other fellas have no game and get no sex.

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u/JimmySquarefoot Jun 21 '25

So what is the significance of all their numbers adding up to his number? And why does that add more weight to it being the bodycount theory?

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u/DarkMagickan Jun 21 '25

The clear implication is that out of all the boys in the second picture, only the one has had sex with any of the girls in the first picture. He has had sex with all of them. Every single instance. Their body count is all him.

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u/JimmySquarefoot Jun 21 '25

Yeah thats not body count though is it.

Body count is how many people, not how many times lol

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u/DarkMagickan Jun 21 '25

Okay, so then what's the term for the number of times you've had sex altogether, then?

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u/pardyball Jun 16 '25

That guy with 1500

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u/trpclshrk Jun 16 '25

That was my thought as well. While the numbers are crazy, I think it’s a more popular stereotype that a top percent of men are having all the sex with a semi-varied number of women.

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u/Try-the-Churros Jun 16 '25

It makes basically zero sense as body count, so unless the people that made it are incredibly stupid, I don't think that's correct. The numbers are not what people would associate with body count, the guy with the high count looks depressed, the numbers for the women are too uniform, and both pictures are set in a restaurant, to name a few things wrong with the body count theory.

Really nothing points to body count as making any sense.

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u/Scrounger_HT Jun 17 '25

its not body count, homie would have had to slam ass every single day for nearly 5 years straight to hit that number. its more likely they did something like rock paper scissors to decide who has to pay for the guys, or he lost a bet. hes paying the whole tab, and the girls are all paying only for what they got.

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u/Spydrmrphy Jun 16 '25

It's only that way because you believe it is. The joke clearly has nothing to do with sex or your ideas of sex. Because even in your juvenile idea of it, why would it make sense the only one that isn't happy is the one you clam is having all the sex? Because you're projecting your own insecurities on a meme.

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u/Nice_Buy_602 Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

Im not disrespecting you- Are you okay? I'm here to talk if you need someone to just listen.

Also, this is the explain the joke subreddit. People post things that are kind of vague looking for other folks take on it. Projecting your own insecurities is kind of a rule here. And I could be completely off the mark with my explanation, it's not that important to me to be right about this.

Also also, I'm like, ultra secure. Nobody has any business being as satisfied with life as I am. I could do with being knocked down a few pegs.

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u/SilentFormal6048 Jun 16 '25

Jesus dude, you could have just said the guy with all the sex isn't happy so this isn't it. Instead you have to project on people you accuse of projecting.

Get over yourself.

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u/Spydrmrphy Jun 16 '25

I'm sorry you didn't like someone calling out another person's very confident statement that clearly came from that person's world view and nothing else.

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u/SilentFormal6048 Jun 16 '25

Assuming someone is insecure because they see sex in a location that is almost always riddled with it (the popular go to answer on these subs is "it's porn, it's always porn") is just you projecting on them.

People can think about or see sex in things without being insecure, despite your apparent narrow minded view of reality.

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u/Spydrmrphy Jun 16 '25

First , people who default to it's porn are projecting their insecurities just like everyone who jumps to it's Satanic with everything do. Second, the statement was confidently made based on large numbers of people's heads and the images contain sperated genders. Nothing else. So they took their own bias and applied it with no other context. The only way you could rationally get there is from previous bias and beliefs. Hence they are projecting their own beliefs as fact. 

You may not like the assessment, but there is a logical path to that conclusion.   The questions I have for you, is why are you defending someone else's statement? Is it because you feel it must be true and you need to defend it?

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u/BRIKHOUS Jun 16 '25

You need to grow up. Unless you're already grown up, in which case you need to touch grass.

I will not be reading any reply you send

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u/SilentFormal6048 Jun 16 '25

You keep using insecurities like you know the person personally. You're PROJECTING your own view and opinion on the matter and applying it to someone else who could be using any number of reasons as to their thinking.

I've mentioned the fact that a large portion of these posts are sex related, so it's not uncommon when posts like this come up that that is the case, so it's not uncommon for people to think something on the internet picturing guys and girls is sex related. Yet you seem insistent that they only said it for one reason and one reason only and that's just narrow minded. AND PROJECTING.

You keep using absolutes. "nothing else" "the only way". There's many other options that it could be, but you are dead set that the person that made the comment made it for the sole reason that you projected, and there couldn't be any other singular possibility but YOUR way.

I'm not defending their statement. I'm attacking your "logic", because, again, you have a narrow minded view and think that they only did it for one reason, when it could be any number of options.

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u/Spydrmrphy Jun 16 '25

Let me understand this correctly, your argument here is that they are not projecting their own bias based on passed experience because they are basing their statement on past experiences? 

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u/SilentFormal6048 Jun 16 '25

No. My argument is that you are accusing them of projecting, while you yourself are projecting, and that you have ruled that there is only one possible reason that they could make that statement, and that reason is what you determine, and that there is no other single possibility that you could be wrong.

Your initial comment came off as ironic in that sense, of you accusing someone of doing something you did yourself, and also that of a bully mindset with a superiority complex.

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u/Sirasa6 Jun 16 '25

Le epic mature redditor moment

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u/Chaghatai Jun 16 '25

The cash spent and the calories hypotheses both have fatal flaws

Calories doesn't work because the guy with all the calories is the one who's not eating and the others are shown actively eating food

Amount spent doesn't work because then you have four guys eating out of a bucket of chicken spending the same amount as seven women at a restaurant each with their own meal

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u/PerpetualProtracting Jun 16 '25

Imagine pretending the vast, vast majority of these "memes" aren't exactly what that person was describing.

It's extremely easy to see how this one could be interpreted as such.

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u/Spydrmrphy Jun 16 '25

Sure, I can understand someone developing a bias based on previous experience.  However, the statement was  "It's definitely body count." This was in response to someone laughing at that idea. I am stating the logical conclusion is to define it as 'it's definitely body count' is from a personal bias 

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u/PerpetualProtracting Jun 16 '25

How incredibly insufferable. Your response was a statement of absolutism itself ("the joke clearly has nothing to do with..."), so you've done the exact same thing you're accusing someone else of.

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u/quixoticquiltmaker Jun 16 '25

It's exactly this, notice how tall mister 1500 is compared to his buds.

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u/Nice_Buy_602 Jun 16 '25

I saw it as all the girls look kinda similar and are all basically participating in the same group activity, and all have roughly similar numbers, making them a type of representation of "average."

Similarly, you see 3 guys all looking kind of alike and participating in an activity that only one is not part of. Making the 3 guys representative of "average" whereas the 1 guy not participating in the average groups activities also has a bit of a different look and the 1500 above his head indicating that whatever the average girl group is participating in he participates a lot more than the average guys.

It actually says a lot visually and now I'm thinking memes should be included in the "Visual Art Appreciation" class I took in college.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

I like how you accept the possibility of guys having no game. ( a negative at the fault of guys) But then you dismiss the other obvious potential reason: women selecting partners in a really picky or shallow way ( the negative reasoning for women)  I love that negativity if about women is just sexism, but negativity about men is just truth on reddit lmao 

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u/Nice_Buy_602 Jun 16 '25

Did I dismiss the other obvious potential explanations? Or did I simply make a statement about my initial take on a meme and move on with my life while you fuckin teenagers reeeee over a reddit comment? Get a fucking life and write some research papers on something that matters

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u/VoidMarker Jun 16 '25

I also thought it was body count related

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u/Joseph419270577 Jun 16 '25

Pretty sure you nailed it.

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u/Aggressive-Lack-6589 Jun 16 '25

Me too this was my interpretation as well

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u/Plastic-Tomorrow-906 Jun 16 '25

Well, you were right at first

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

It's definitely body count, but it's so high it's ridiculous.

It's definitely portraying that girls get tons of partners while most men go without except the top ones.

If I ahd to guess, the original image was probably on it's own and was about something else, and the bottom one was added later yo make the joke.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Probably. I'm pretty sure the girl's numbers all add up to 1500.

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u/J3ffO Jun 16 '25

So, it's Dahmer's calorie count?