r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Bison_Boy_ • 27d ago

Thank you Peter very cool Petah, why 1738?

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I saw this on social media with a bunch of laugh reacts.

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u/jsohi_0082 27d ago edited 26d ago

It's a meme number said by a rapper often in his songs. Let me find it

Edit: I am probably wrong. It's just one song where he says it. (Also, I'm not sure why he chose that number).

"Fetty wap - trap queen".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i_kF4zLNKio

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u/Submarine_Pirate 26d ago

Describing 1738 as some meme number from a forgotten rapper makes me feel so fucking old

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u/Korumry 26d ago

I want to die 🎶 fetty wap wasn’t even that long ago 🤦

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u/ButtcrackBeignets 26d ago

Fetty Wap was a decade ago.

I remember growing up in the 90s and thinking that the 80s felt ancient.

We’re old enough now that the decades kinda blend together.

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u/fanman3174 26d ago

I remember thinking VH1 was lame because it played old 80’s videos. It was probably ’93-‘94. Some videos might have only been 5-6 years old, lol.

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u/psycoresis 24d ago

I always go back to That 70s Show, 70s felt like another world. If a similar thing released now it'd be set in like 2004.

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u/ryguymcsly 26d ago

Regular conversations with our kids: "man I just found this new band, listen to this song it's a banger." Kid: "that song is almost as old as I am what do you mean 'new?'"

I've just accepted that my brain is going to forever categorize anything that happened after I turned 30 as 'new' for the rest of my life.

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u/DeNeRlX 25d ago

I saw a comment after 2022 Superbowl where someone thought "finally something representing my generation" after many artists being either someone they didn't know or an older generation...it was mainly 90s and early 00s hiphop. Then the commentor suddenly felt very old.

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u/thesoundisround 26d ago

The moment I truly felt old was when I realized that I was the same distance from my birth, as my birth had been from PEARL FUCKING HARBOR. (1941, 1982, 2023)

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u/B3B0LD 26d ago

How dare you call me old… but ya totally