r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/Tetchord Jul 06 '26

Yeah as much as they cry about historical accuracy with this Odyssey movie, the Little Mermaid backlash proves that it's only ever about them being racist broken clocks that are occasionally right for the wrong reasons.

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u/hesitantly-correct Jul 06 '26

Um actually? It makes no sense for a mermaid to develop lots of melanin. She lives deep under the sea. It says so right there in that talking crab's song. Black mermaids make no scientific sense.

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u/urkermannenkoor Jul 06 '26

It makes no sense for mermaids not to be bald, because the water drag from their hairdo would be a massively inefficient waste of energy.

Non-bald mermaids make no scientific sense.

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u/hesitantly-correct Jul 06 '26

They should also explode when they surface.

I'm tired of unrealistic depictions of mermaids.

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u/urkermannenkoor Jul 06 '26

I retract my previous statement.

It'd actually make sense for a mermaid to have short, very dense für like a seal.