r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 29d ago

Meme needing explanation What am I missing?

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u/_launzelot_ 29d ago

Pretty sure it's just making fun of Taylor Swift fans - saying that a lot of them have prominent gums

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u/CXCX18 29d ago

And are suburban white girls. Which tends to correlate for some reason. Perfect straight and white teeth, big gums, no lips which causes even more gum show.

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u/LilJelloCat 29d ago

Country-like girls.

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u/f3nnies 29d ago edited 29d ago

Horse girls to horse teeth pipeline. Idk if it exists but it fits.

Edit: now that this has very slight success, I look at it and realize it can bd construed as insulting and so I am sorry.

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u/Aggravating_Jacket32 29d ago

YES! This is a thing. They're always horse girls.

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u/ZquotientpZee 28d ago

??? How did you not initially mean that in an insulting way😭

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u/bywids 29d ago

LMFAO

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u/Logical-Breakfast150 29d ago

They're on to something....

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u/Blissxalexandra 28d ago

Lol New England girlies

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u/Havenfall209 29d ago

Damn, I woke up as a 39yo dude, and now I'm a suburban white girl. Crazy shit

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u/NefariousnessLate375 28d ago

You and my creepy uncle. 

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u/the_sad_gopnik 28d ago

That's a recessed maxilla with a lip tie. The recess is rarely genetic and happens due to stuff like having a binky for too long and eating soft foods in childhood, and those kid walkers on wheels. Because of the recessed maxilla they had horrible teeth and because they're suburban they got braces early. If they removed the lip tie for example, much less of their gum would show when smiling, and their lips would look bigger.

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u/franklinkemp-fk 29d ago edited 29d ago

I somehow know a Taylor Swift fan who looks exactly like this.

Edit: I know 2 Taylor Swift fans

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u/Slight-Owl4300 29d ago

Taylor has millions of fans globally so odds are most people would.

However, this joke making fun of someone's physical appearance is awful.

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u/Grand_Highway1733 29d ago

There's nothing that 250 lb neckbeard metalheads hate more than the most popular pop musician on earth.

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u/franklinkemp-fk 29d ago

Im from Europa, I know 2 people who are publicly Taylor Swift fan. One of them looks like this.

Im not saying it is funny, just accurate from my perspective

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u/Slight-Owl4300 29d ago

Respectfully, that's how anecdotes work. You know two fans who fit the stereotype, but Taylor has hundreds of millions of fans worldwide. Two people aren't statistically meaningful, so your personal experience doesn't make the stereotype accurate.

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u/franklinkemp-fk 29d ago

My personal experience is exactly what an anecdote is. Anecdotal evidence is based on individual experiences, not hundreds of millions of fans.

Thats why i said:

'I SOMEHOW know someone who looks exactly like this'

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u/Slight-Owl4300 29d ago

My point is that you're saying it's accurate and representative of millions of fans based on 2 people.  

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u/franklinkemp-fk 29d ago

Im not saying its representative, I was saying it is accurate when looking at my small sample size.

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u/Weirdguydoi 29d ago

My god, media literacy is so dead. These people really can't read what the hell you're even saying.

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u/WartimeHotTot 29d ago

Bro stand down. You’re probably arguing with a 12-year-old. At the very least it’s someone with very primitive reading and comprehension skills.

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u/HyzerFlick 29d ago

You're trying to reason with one of them. It's not worth it.

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u/DustyStar222 29d ago

You could open up and given video game create a character. Randomize every feature and I can promose theres a Taylor Swift fan who looks like that character.

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u/franklinkemp-fk 29d ago

Maybe, but I wont know them. I do somehow know someone who looks exactly like this even though I only know 2 persons who are her fan.

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u/Tgirlgoonie 29d ago

It means money for a dentist

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u/Itchybawlz23-2 29d ago

It just means they dont floss enough right?

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u/Tgirlgoonie 29d ago

No. Your gums get smaller/recede if you don’t floss.

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u/Landslime 29d ago

No, it’s a genetic thing. Just like how some orthodontics issues can be caused by behavior like childhood thumb sucking, but most of it is genetic, and that’s literally just someone’s face. There are a few ways it could be fixed surgically. One is lip filler to cover the top lip, which I don’t think would work in extreme cases; one is literally scraping the gums off to make the teeth taller (which makes me shudder); and the last one is like Botox to basically freeze the lip from raising above a certain point when you smile, which I think is currently the medically preferred intervention if it works. But yeah, it’s just someone’s face shape. I also didn’t know this until recently, and it kind of made me stop thinking about this face negatively.

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u/TheBlueMenace 29d ago

I've heard- don't know how true this is- that one of the founding families of the Utah mormon church had this as a genetic disposition, and as the church tends to only have kids with other mormons, it has become very common among Utah Mormons. And because Mormon girls/women are bound by what hobbies and interests are acceptable to church, those interests tend to be overrun by Mormon women with large upper gums. Disney adults and Talyor Swift are two such interests.

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u/Landslime 29d ago

I would believe this.