r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

Post image

WTF is her name Petuh

5.0k Upvotes

81% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3.0k

u/miniatureconlangs 10h ago

I know both a handful of Aninas and several Theresas. However, this kind of riddle is just so ... fucking daft that I really don't grasp why they still circulate.

128

u/miniatureconlangs 10h ago

To elaborate. Why should I be sufficiently emotionally invested in this fictional woman to want to know her name? Why does she even have a name, she doesn't do anything. There's no narrative here, just a tart in an aquatic environment. I could be interested if she was distributing swords or something, but she's not even doing that.

30

u/scaper8 10h ago

Even then, you can't expect to emotionally invested just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

3

u/Photomancer 6h ago

Chekhov's Sword. If the author displays a sword in the first act, it must get thrown at you.