I genuinely don't get it. I didn't get it when I was in middle school, I didn't get it when I was in college and I still don't get it now.
I think you do get itYou just feel the need to be a performative contrarian instead of simply saying the jokes didn't land for you
>>151790345No, I am 100% serious. I understand that the entire joke is that Charlie's a pretty unicorn with a gruff accent who gets gaslit out of his kidney by his friends. I don't get how that warrants millions of views, an entire cult fanbase and people calling it one of the best Flash animations ever made.
>>151790452It's memeworthy lolrandum in an era before that became broadly despisedAn era that 30yo boomers and the like probably discovered early on in their experience with the internet, making it a formative and nostalgic experience Also I don't think it's even purely lol random but manages a properly surreal tone that makes the punchline hit so well
>>151790702yeah, if you can't withstand the lolsorandum i get it, but i feel>sadsack straightman wearily forced to suffer the antics of two fools (and an increasingly nonsensical world)>fools actually pulled one over on him (a fucked up one at odds with their personas and the entire tone)is a decent setup-payoff for less than 4 minutes
>>151791008He finally went along with the whimsy after seeming like a cynical asshole the whole time by resisting, just to get fucked over so hard that he can't even feel curmudgeonly validated at being right.
>>151790305>t. CharliePut a banana in your ear.
>>151790452It was there at the right time, with high quality voice recordings, and the perfect kind of absurdity, plus catchy songs.it's one of those things where you say "anybody could do that!" yeah well, only a few people did.
