It’s a Cast Away (2000) reference. Tom >!Hanks!< (Hanks) is stranded on an island and paints a >!volleyball!< (volleyball) that he >!names!< (names) Wilson to be his friend since he’s isolated for so >!long!< (long).
Edit: I said Bruce Willis and almost made it an action movie.
Edit: added spoiler tags on some words per request. I wasn’t sure which were spoilers.
Edit: spoilers were bugged on someone’s client so I wrote the spoilers next to the spoilers. Please understand.
I don’t get it, is there I reference I don’t know?
It’s a Cast Away (2000) reference. Tom >!Hanks!< (Hanks) is stranded on an island and paints a >!volleyball!< (volleyball) that he >!names!< (names) Wilson to be his friend since he’s isolated for so >!long!< (long).
Edit: I said Bruce Willis and almost made it an action movie.
Edit: added spoiler tags on some words per request. I wasn’t sure which were spoilers.
Edit: spoilers were bugged on someone’s client so I wrote the spoilers next to the spoilers. Please understand.
This was before 9/11 when a guy could fuck a volleyball without people thinking he was weird.
Good times
Well, at least you tried not to spoil anything.
The spoiler tags are either invalid, or not rendering here, so I read this like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc1am3KyYgA&t=86s
Yup, that’s probably the correct way to read it.
Those were the tags that Sync for Lemmy used, but looks like the browser version expects a different spoiler tag. Very strange.
It’s probably ported over from Reddit and a bug. The way Lemmy spoiler tags things is with ::: spoilers :::
Eg.
spoiler
example
This comment thread reminds me of the “hunter2” meme. :D
E: adding screenshot taken from Voyager.
This is how it’s supposed to look (taken from Summit)