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Taylor Swift Begins Day By Playing Video Reminding Travis Kelce Who She Is, How Long They’ve Dated (www.theonion.com)

submitted 6 months ago by can to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (5 children)

This one’s kinda going over my head. Is this a CTE joke? I get that it’s referencing 50 first dates but I don’t know why

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It is a joke based on both the movie 50 First Dates because the ending has the movie a morning thing and Kelce is in a sport with a lot of brain injuries that frequently lead to memory loss.

So yeah, CTE + a com com.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

I don't think it went over your head.

[–] clay_pidgin 6 points 6 months ago

That's my guess, too.

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

I initially read it as, "Travis Kelce is so lucky that Taylor Swift feels obligated to remind him every morning." CTE makes more sense, but isn't quite as amusing.

[–] can 2 points 6 months ago

That's as much as I got from it too. I did manage to find an old article where he had a concussion with memory loss.

[+] [email protected] -62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Oh look, a traumatic brain injury joke. So funny.

I guess this is one of those "The Onion is Boomer humor" pieces I have heard so much about.

EDIT: I am not a fan of jokes that target people's ethnicity, sexual preference, or disability, and that definitely includes traumatic injury. If that makes me a buzzkill, then so be it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah, it is funny in the context of how fine society is with brain injuries from sports. Dark humor, not boomer humor.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like you're one of those people who defended the will Smith slap

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

That's a really good burn lol

[–] can 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TBI is awful but I don't see why it'd be off the table? They've not shied from sensitive topics in their whole history.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

isnt it also in their standard of "bringing light to terribly true things" by making satire of it?

If they see this as "making fun of disabilities" - that might be more on them.

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

Dude hasn't gotten brain damage from an accident or born with it. He's gotten repeated brain damage to entertain millions of people in a game.

I think "bringing light to terribly true things" is an appropriate description for referencing the detrimental medical effects of professional football on the players.

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

Should we joke about when he attacked an old man because Kelce himself screwed up a play. Very normal behavior of a well adjusted definitely not man child.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

‘Attacked’ is disingenuous. He got confrontational and right up in the coach’s face and personal space while shouting. But no hands were thrown, and afaik the coach did not get pushed back or have to catch his footing.

Travis was completely unjustified and hugely overreacted about sports, but you should be honest.

[–] can 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Assuming that's real, yes, yes we should. Or The Onion writers should.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know nothing of the man. Literally zero other than the fact that he plays football and dates Taylor Swift. I just don't find jokes about disabilities, including traumatic brain injuries, funny.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jokes can be about anything, you're free to be a stick in the mud I guess. But you don't get to shame others for not being that