this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
482 points (95.1% liked)

Memes

44924 readers
2835 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I knew I already saw that...

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Spaceballs!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

That’s all that came to mind when I saw this yesterday, I’m glad you brought dot matrix up

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (4 children)

To be honest I think it looks cool! Why not? Bring back the armor, capes and/or swords!

[–] prole 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I imagine plate armor is uncomfortable as fuck... Capes are dope though, but I can imagine them getting caught in various things causing fatal accidents (escalators, revolving doors, moving trains, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Its not difficult to engineer a bit of safety into a cape. The clasps holding the cape around your neck/on your body can be designed to have a low breakaway strength to prevent strangulation(150N is a typical force). This is a feature designed into most safety helmets. Its secure enough to never fall off unintentionally, but weak enough that it removes the risk of strangulation.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

No Capes!

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Zendaya switched to a dress after the red carpet walk, so you are probably right about the comfortability

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exceedingly cool.

She's the upgraded model of protocol droid and I dug it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Could it be some kind of sexbot?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I for one would like to dress in 80s coat and suit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Or the 50s with 3 part suite with complimenting fedora!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I feel like that photo really doesn’t capture the oddity of that get-up, though it does feel “Dune-ish”:

zendaya'd

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

More David Lynch Dune than Denis Villeneuve Dune.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it looks better from the other angle but more Dune-ish from this one IMO

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

... they can't even design the boob-plate properly anymore. smh...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Alright this side looks even better. Damn she is gorgeous and this looks cool too!

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, it could be the Metropolis gal too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

That's exactly what the outfit was modeled on

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, both Zendaya's dress and C3PO were designed to look like Maria, the robot in Metropolis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

For those too lazy to click the wiki link

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm just annoyed at the caption "break the internet".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Im annoyed at using a screenshot of a tiktok at all rather than just looking up a picture of her in the suit

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think it's more of a metropolis vibe

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Yeah, both Zendaya's costume and C3PO (and many other robots in sci-fi) have the Metropolis aesthetic.

Just that Star Wars being as popular as it is means C3PO is iconic on his own, and no one thinks a lot about why the stylistic choices were made when they designed the C3PO costume in the 70s.

[–] clay_pidgin 2 points 6 months ago

It was exactly a metropolis inspired look. She got it out of a museum basically. It was on the runway in the 90s(?) as an homage to the robot woman from Metropolis.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Leave her alone. She just wanted to feel closer to her idol Swen Vincke.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As far as idols go, the head of what seems to be the only ethical major developer/publisher of video games left isn't the WORST choice 🤷

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Urgh, I hate when brands use the phrase "Break the internet!" ... It just sounds so braindead to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's entirely brain dead: they're literally copying it from whoever used it years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think I first saw it with Kim Kardashian. And did it "break" anything? Maybe some coomer's wrist, but nothing else lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

More like see-THRU-PO, amirite?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Just imagine something itching and you can't stratch it. The horror

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

It’s not a dress.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did zendaya actually wear that ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Yes, on the Dune part two premiere. I do think it fits the occasion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Everyone do an image search for Hajime Sorayama (potentially NSFW).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

See-thru-po

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Who wore it best? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

How is this a meme? It’s a classic art piece designed by Theirry Muglier and was originally seen in George Michael’s Too Funky music video. And yes it’s inspired by robots like C3PO and Maria/Maschinenmensch from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›