• Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      The character Berdly is an archetypal “annoying nerdy kid” character. He’s a gamer, he’s weird with girls, he thinks of himself as an intellectual.

      The first person in the screenshot is presumably making a joke, but the message could have plausibly been made by Berdly (minus referencing sex).

      The second person says that the first person’s profile picture (of Berdly) is affecting their behaviour in the same way that the mask from The Mask (1994) takes over the body of its wearer, suggesting that the first person’s behaviour is out of character for them.

      This is funny because of the clashing tones between the two messages (the floweriness vs straightforwardness) and the (absurd) idea that a profile picture can possess you.