I'm hearing that we're having another influx to the fedi!

Welcome to all the newcomers. I've made a video to help fill you in on some of the history, memes, and give you some cultural grounding in the place

It's really lovely to see you all here and I hope this also helps you feel at home here and truly understand what we're about 🙏

Thank you to @jhpot for the inspiration

Things that I got the images for that didn't make it into the collage because I got bored:

Ghost baby
Witches
Wound cube
Pineapple
Big foot
A bathroom
Big tiddy alf
A gnome
Mr Blobby
Piss
Wil Wheaton

@babe Can't believe you left out Blobby.
@babe you asked for big tiddy Alf, you found big tiddy Alf, and then you just hoarded it???
@turmoni Big tiddy alf by @extinct
@babe thank you. I think.
@babe
I lurked behind a CN sayin "big tiddy alf" faster than my brain could read and now what? cannot unsee.
@blausand @babe if you would have read first, you would have lensed behind that cw anyways 🫣

@babe I'm not sure why this appeared in my feed just now, but since it did...

Did you know that it's in Alf canon that he uses prostitutes?

https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2017/10/17/alf-fucks-prostitutes-case-file-96-alfs-hit-talk-show

ALF's Hit Talk Show Was the Nightmare Brand Extension NO ONE Needed Or Asked For — Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Shout Factory! recently got into the ALF business in a big way, so it seems like the perfect time to revisit his ill-fated oughts vehicle ALF’s Hit Talk Show.

Nathan Rabin's Happy Place
@Garwboy We love a sex worker supporting king
@babe There was Phone Weasel as well, around the time I got here so I never quite understood that one. 
@babe don’t pin this one on me
@babe @jhpot I think it is recursively perfect, 💯 would recommand, even for the ones here for a long time, it's easy to miss bits on all these islands
@babe I knew what this was and still clicked it. And now I'm feeling culturally grounded.
@stibbons @babe the Knives Out reference brought a tear to my eye

@babe

I love you so much for this, this is amazing

@pharmafemboy happy to be doing a shenanigan again 
@babe damn, good one but I almost skipped without realizing it was just the intro. Great video overall, even learned a few things myself!
@virtulis @babe eh it's decent, but I think Hubzilla should have been mentioned
@babe Great vid, enjoyed every minute of it
@babe *watches the whole video*
@babe Exactly the sort of well informed educational content I have grown to expect from you!
@babe Haven't been properly rickrolled in a while haha. Nice one! You actually surprised me haha.

@babe
Even Thanos knows, #NoGloveNoLove.

PS - Dude is seriously packing.

@babe I knew what this was. It couldn’t have been anything else. Still clicked. Worth it every time.
@babe oh wow, so that's what the wound cube thing was all about. Always something to learn, eh?
@g1comics For sale. Wound Cube. Never fucked.
@babe honestly, that was a relief.
@babe You'll burn for this
@babe @adaddinsane Well, we have known each for so long and you know the rules. 😁
@babe After understanding what "casual racism" is, I no longer enjoy performaces like this.
Which makes me more sad than angry.
@8petros Could you explain to me what about this is racist?
@babe I think if they were in earnest about their frustration they wouldn’t just blithely vaguepost about it

@pork_soda Maybe. I'd rather respond in good faith though. If there's a chance I'm missing something I'd rather know about it and confront it

I've seen it said before but only as a segue into actually rickrolling people

@babe It's an old one. But it checks out. Call it nostalgia but we need more of this is in these trying times.
@babe I knew exactly what to expect and clicked play anyway
@babe wait a minute this isn't infosec
@schratze clicking on a @babe link is always infosec

@schratze @babe but what if it was… 🤷🏻

Maybe this is the truth that BigInfosec™️ don’t want us to know…

@babe You forgot the pineapple!
@babe not even mad 🕺
@babe 😱🤣🤣🤣🤣
@babe thanks for this important context and community engagement work, as always
@babe this video is so welcoming to our newcomers, thank you 💙

@babe Nice job, even seasoned users might benefit from those details...

I think I even catched a hidden easter egg there! Very well done.

@babe 🧐 🧐 🧐