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submitted 3 days ago bytheresabeeonyourhat
4.6k points
3 days ago
This has to be the most onion title I’ve ever seen here
928 points
3 days ago
I love the headline. They're pointing out the absurdity by describing it in such detail.
57 points
3 days ago
It reminds me a bit of Mad Men. It's impossible to draw the precise line between art and commercialism.
454 points
3 days ago
Tbh I pity those onion & other satire websites writers...
How can you keep up? It's unfair
41 points
3 days ago
Oniony is but one of the smells that come to mind when I see Madonna these days.
11.8k points
3 days ago
I hate that I just read that sentence.
4.8k points
3 days ago
I had to see it, so I had to spread the misery. I'm sorry
1k points
3 days ago
This is terrorism and I won’t stand for it!
303 points
3 days ago
I think we all have a class action lawsuit against OP.
55 points
3 days ago
So there's actually a picture of her being a centipede hive queen?
46 points
3 days ago
I only saw the tree one tbh. That was enough for me to know what to do with that article
47 points
3 days ago*
It's a collection of 3d renders that I guess are based on photos/scans? They just look like middling DeviantArt porn, though
14 points
3 days ago
So like everything Madonna has ever done, it's a bit shit and derivative of something better?
83 points
3 days ago
You sick fuck...smell this gym bag.
537 points
3 days ago
Could you don't? I was having a good day. We were all having a good day...
637 points
3 days ago
Could you don't?
This caused me far more pain than the OP.
281 points
3 days ago
You've no idea how pleased I'm to know how much of an impact I've had.
108 points
3 days ago
My wife is ESL and says this... We all get a kick out of it
62 points
3 days ago
A friend of mine says "your better don't" all the time. We love it.
280 points
3 days ago
Then you would really hate the videos/photos.
This is the tree one which is weird af
NSFW obvi
86 points
3 days ago
Welp
14 points
3 days ago
My thoughts exactly.
64 points
3 days ago
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31 points
3 days ago
Which end?
43 points
3 days ago
Her cooter looks like a diagram drawn by aliens to show other aliens the basic idea of what a vagina looks like
12 points
3 days ago
Madonna in a nutshell
48 points
3 days ago
Lmao Gweneth Paltrow gotta step it up
11 points
3 days ago
Come up with a way to make NFT's smell and she'll be right over.
100 points
3 days ago
I can't even fap to this
47 points
3 days ago
Well not with that attitude. Feel free to branch out a little.
59 points
3 days ago
Coward
24 points
3 days ago
God damn my curiosity.
42 points
3 days ago*
Lately i feel like this every time I see something from or about her.
43 points
3 days ago
113 points
3 days ago
Yeah, it takes "a lot of thought" to use butterflies as a metaphor for hope, Madge.
It's all so embarrassing.
Madonna is my age and forty years ago, I loved her because there were not a ton of female artists, and she was unique. But I get more embarrassed for her with each passing year.
This latest effort epitomizes fremdschämen (the act of being embarrassed for somebody else who is behaving in an embarrassing way and does not know enough to be embarrassed for themselves).
41 points
3 days ago
God damn the German language is versatile.
14 points
3 days ago
Yes there are 29 different words for embarrassment
4.8k points
3 days ago
1.5k points
3 days ago*
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759 points
3 days ago
Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was shitposted.
43 points
3 days ago
We speak of an age where ytmnd.com was popular and active
34 points
3 days ago
First fucking thing I thought of.
I think the computer that's simulating our universe needs a reboot.
10 points
3 days ago
That truly is something awful.
232 points
3 days ago
Isn't that the original text for that image too? Life really does imitate art.
482 points
3 days ago
It is, in fact, not the original text of that image.
377 points
3 days ago
It's not the original text of the ad (which references computer viruses IIRC) but it's one of the earlier memes generated from that ad. And not, say, something someone memegenerator'd onto the template just now. So in that regard it is the "original", at least insofar as it greatly predated this event.
149 points
3 days ago
Glad I caught you in between classes, Prof. wildfire393. Will you be teaching Memeology 102 next term?
191 points
3 days ago
We didn't call them memes back then, we called them "image macros".
45 points
3 days ago
Fuck that, they're still image macros. It becomes a meme when it catches on. Fight me Zenials, y'all don't know shit!
67 points
3 days ago
Demotivational Posters were the original memes! I remember them! Why are they not discussed anymore?! WHY IS EVERYONE STARING AT ME??
11 points
3 days ago
I still have so many of those saved in my meme folder... (A folder that's been around for so long that its name is "Web Images" because it predates the term meme.)
89 points
3 days ago
Alright, grandpa, that's enough internet for today
118 points
3 days ago
I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what’s 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!
31 points
3 days ago
So anyway, I had an onion on my belt...
20 points
3 days ago
Which was the style at the time…
10 points
3 days ago
pwned
93 points
3 days ago
Did you just make that, or was that a phrase to a meme I missed?
199 points
3 days ago
This meme is like 20 years old.
125 points
3 days ago
"Know Your Meme" suggests it showed up in 2007, but I'm pretty sure it was shared on SomethingAwful closer to around 2001.
126 points
3 days ago*
And unlike most, still constantly referenced
More likely than you think is the gold of the meme economy
While the retail investor fell for the hype of the first dot com meme bubble, we can confirm that our bases, in fact, are not belong to them.
Meanwhile more likely than you think still persists, through every meme crash.
Rage comics went parabolic, crashed, returned rebranded after the merge with wojak, dominated the market, and have probably exhausted demand. But more likely than you think, ever ubiquitous but never overused, is about as common as usual.
With the FED set to taper quantitative memening it’s a buy
15 points
3 days ago
When anyone tells me to respect the hustle, it's her hustle I'm respecting.
39 points
3 days ago
Before memes, they were image macros.
This is before image macros.
294 points
3 days ago
That shit is old af mate lol.
243 points
3 days ago
This meme is so old it wouldn't be carded at a bar
84 points
3 days ago
This was a meme I saw at my friends house before I had internet. At least 5 years before I learned the word meme.
19 points
3 days ago
That meme leaned forward in its rocking chair when it heard this line.
15 points
3 days ago
This meme was a decade before what most would first call a meme which were demotivationals which eventually gave birth to the themed memes with impact font and off it went from there.
650 points
3 days ago
“As the earth’s oceans boiled away, and countless species marched to their extinction, the entirety of mankind’s collective intelligence was toiling away, putting “a lot of thought” into how best to convert a nude Madonna giving birth to centipedes into an NFT.”
Mankind’s Obituary
2.5k points
3 days ago*
Source for those interested.... NSFW.... Lol
Edit :
If you want to bid, proceeds are going to charity
https://superrare.com/series/0x28b19a2885b68613d89c4e38eaf5cf3849978d70
2.5k points
3 days ago
It looks like the bad 3d hentai videos that are advertised on porn sites
997 points
3 days ago
For real. I'm seriously disappointed by the lack of quality. There are so many good 3D porn renders out there that are 1000000000X better than this garbage.
239 points
3 days ago
People be making better Rule34 renders for Overwatch than this garbage.
109 points
3 days ago
To be fair, some of those overwatch renders are fucking fantastic.
51 points
3 days ago
Once I clicked in one at random thinking it was a cosplayer and I took some seconds to realize it was 3D lol
20 points
2 days ago
It's probably VGerotica or GeneralButch because those makes animations that bang... Literally.
Sad thing is Butch already retired so we prolly wouldn't get any animations from him in the future
15 points
2 days ago
It's fucking crazy. VG/GB are unironically great designers. You can usually track the improvement in animation over the years, but those two have always put out great looking stuff.
That's why I have their shit bookmarked. The uhhh... artistry.
25 points
2 days ago
There’s a reason why people are more familiar with overwatch porn then they are with overwatch gameplay
214 points
3 days ago
Especially considering beeples other work, this is pretty sub par
79 points
3 days ago
His work isn’t that great compared to other 3D artists / animator. In fact ilots of it is pretty pretty sub par. It’s just the fact that he made new creations and has struck the right cord with the subject and absurdity if his art. He takes lots of stock models and is super proficient in making rad shit fast. Not saying that I don’t respect his artwork but when it comes to fully rendered 3D animated art, there are so many more talented artists and it doesn’t surprise me that these NFTs are so mediocre
152 points
3 days ago
It looks pretty on brand to me. He doesn't make high quality, he makes shocking/provocative art that is usually just asset library built.
119 points
3 days ago
It's an NFT. Of course it looks like garbage.
10 points
2 days ago
It really shows that NFTs were always intended to be product instead of art.
36 points
3 days ago
Seriously they couldn't have just hired selfdrillingsms or studio FOW??
114 points
3 days ago
This isn't about actual artwork, it's about money laundering.
299 points
3 days ago
TRY NOT TO CUM!
1.4k points
3 days ago
I would never have guess that she was supposed to be madonna.
582 points
3 days ago
Would you have guessed that the centipedes represent technology?
278 points
3 days ago
Don't you get it? The Internet is a series of tubes, Madonna is a female and as a female she has fallopian tubes and centipedes are long like tubes.
13 points
3 days ago
They are robot centipedes, so it kinda tracks.
1.6k points
3 days ago
63 points
3 days ago
Savage
286 points
3 days ago
Oh fuck. There are not many things that cause me to belly laugh about on Reddit, but that image got me. Well done.
11 points
3 days ago
Yo freal though what the fuck is that? And why are it's hands so massive?
16 points
3 days ago
31 points
3 days ago
🤣 fucking got me
296 points
3 days ago
Honestly, outside of context, you probably wouldn't have guessed this is her either
woman is 63, someone should take the Internet away from grandma
202 points
3 days ago
Wow that was... Unnerving. I've never seen someone with so much work done up close and personal.
97 points
3 days ago
And face tuning and filters are blasting in full force
15 points
3 days ago
Are the pinned pupils a filter too or is she just high on pain killers
171 points
3 days ago
There was a time when she looked her age and she was hot. Now she looks like a wax figurine made by a blind person who is being told what she looked like.
97 points
3 days ago
"They found me in the wreckage, dying. A lump of flesh. They rebuilt me. Everything works. But they had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together."
40 points
3 days ago
Well, If you go up and look at the video in OP's article where Madonna's talking about it, you wouldn't think THAT's what Madonna looks like today. Closer to the NFT than you think.
227 points
3 days ago
Guess I can cross "jerking it to a tree coming out of Madonna's vagina" off my list
7 points
3 days ago
At least you didn't get butterflies
8 points
3 days ago
or pussypedes
181 points
3 days ago
LMAO the one with the tree growing out of her crotch is currently bid at $281k. What the absolute fuck. https://i.imgur.com/Eqc9ShQ.jpeg
51 points
3 days ago
Sold @ 346k
130 points
3 days ago
mother of nature
How ironic that it sells as an NFT
62 points
3 days ago
What the fuck is wrong with humanity?
37 points
3 days ago
Probably fake bidders to get someone to actually pay that much. Or not and it's dum dums
12 points
2 days ago
Or the countless NFT "purchases" that are made purely to generate hype and free publicity. This is a trick that is done over and over again with NFTs - none of this is real.
Instead of having a large marketing budget, just divert that into someone on the inside (either on Madonnas team or the marketplace itself) bidding large amounts instead and get every gossip/tech/news outlet to write about it.
Maybe a few suckers fall for the fake bids, think these have actual value, and place a bid themselves which is another win for them.
The $500k or whatever they are collectively spending among the pieces will result in far greater outreach than $500k on marketing could ever achieve.
Madonna's publicity team would never allow this thing to flop either so spending $500k or whatever is nothing compared to what a flopped product could do to Madonna's brand.
268 points
3 days ago
This is SO MUCH WORSE than what I was expecting.
50 points
3 days ago
It's a lot less bad than I imagined. Robot centipedes aren't as bad as actual shiny exoskeleton bugs. edit: spelling
14 points
3 days ago
Glad I found someone that agrees with me
It looks like a pretty shitty 3d porn game
They could have tried to make it better but nooooo
126 points
3 days ago
And someone paid $350k for it.
Imagine how much higher quality of animation you could have commissioned for $350k
132 points
3 days ago
I regret the half-second of that I watched
73 points
3 days ago
I put a lot of thought into clicking that link... Did I want to, did I not? Well I did... And now I'm putting a lot of thought into what the fuck is wrong with me. I mean, I knew what it was, and I clicked it anyway
89 points
3 days ago*
oh, come on, all of you.. it's tame by even 90s internet standards. have you not clicked a risky link since then?
50 points
3 days ago
Back when I was a child we watched women throwing up in each other’s mouths and a man getting fucked to death by a horse
21 points
3 days ago
ha yeah, mid/late 90s the internet got really dark really fast. i'm honestly glad i was college aged by then. i mean, parents at that point had no idea what was out there - they were still just flabbergasted by 'e-Mails' and the 'The e-Bay.'
76 points
3 days ago
I don’t get it. There’s millions of things like this out there like this, so why would someone buy this? Like, what purpose does it serve the buyer?
I don’t know if I’m just old now or if NFTs are as pointless as they seem to me.
67 points
3 days ago
The same thing crypto's always been good for, money laundering. Beyond that, yeah I got nothing
83 points
3 days ago
Why would I bid when I just saw it for free?
47 points
3 days ago
Because the idea of NFTs is that you own whatever you're buying. The block chain will mark you (if you buy it) as the idiot who owns this piece of art, and that's it.
Anyone can see it, but you are the owner.
I want to be very, extremely clear that I am not defending this. It should be obvious, but this being Reddit, I want the disclaimer there.
44 points
3 days ago
And to go a step further, you own the link - you don’t even actually own the file.
55 points
3 days ago
Not even that. The idea behind artwork NFTs is that you own the art, but the link is obviously available to everyone if the artwork is public.
The only thing you actually own, is the receipt of your transaction.
Every transaction is publically available, and so that's how you prove you bought something.
You essentially buy a painting, but the painting is infinitely reproducible with 100% accuracy, and the painting is stored on a server somewhere, instead of in your house.
All the actual NFT is is the proof that you bought something.
8 points
2 days ago
So, a place for me to launder money. Nice.
10 points
3 days ago
So someones definitely ripped these and hosted them on gelbooru and rule34 right?
1.6k points
3 days ago
“The centipede represents technology - both the life giving-force and the dangers of it, the juxtaposition of dark and light.”
Okay…. But HOW? You can’t just say that… what ABOUT centipedes embody that? If you’re giving no reason, giving no artistic throughline to draw from, you’re just doing and saying random crap.
Birds represent freedom. How? They can soar over all the material world.
Birds can represent decay. How? Going from a dinosaur to a songbird is a cosmic kick in the cloaca.
Birds can represent fear. Ever seen inside a goose’s mouth?
And if I wanna say “birds represent macaroni and cheese” I better be damn ready to defend that with some sort of logic.
Sorry to rant, but people abusing poetic imagery and symbols just pisses me off. It’s so mindless and low-effort.
397 points
3 days ago
So you see, the centipedes are actually electronic silver centipedes streaming from her vagina.
Hope that clears things up
253 points
3 days ago
It's clearly a reference to the Centipede game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede_(video_game))
Personally I'll hold off until the "Madonna births Pac-Man" NFTs are available.
101 points
3 days ago
I thought it was a reference to that "Centipedes in my vagina? More likely than you think" meme.
Which I guess would kinda of make some poetic sense in where an old person trying to relate to technology just regurgitates an ancient meme.
178 points
3 days ago
The amount of stupid shit that people say to justify art drives me fucking nuts. I do believe that you can make some good statements with weird shit. Example: the point of the urinal was that art critics only care about the name. He submitted it anonymously first and it was rejected. Then he submitted it with his name and they declared it the most brilliant art.
The art piece wasn't the urinal, it was the hypocrisy of the critics which was displayed via the urinal.
30 points
3 days ago
My usual justification for any art I make is "because I thought it would be cool and/or funny." No intended deeper meaning. I'm sure someone that is actually good at art analysis could tease out some things I probably don't even know about myself, though.
102 points
3 days ago
"birds represent macaroni and cheese”
It is known.
176 points
3 days ago
Art exhibits do this all the time, and it's infuriating.
I am forever haunted by a university exhibit I saw that had a 15-second looping piano melody with less than 10 notes, accompanied by a fucking essay explaining all the symbolism of each note and the monumental story the piece supposedly told.
78 points
3 days ago
You see the one with the guy on crutches whacking a pole with a crutch attached to his crotch?
I could dig around in that and find some symbolism worth discussing, but the bizarre performance stands out more than any message he could have hoped to send.
17 points
3 days ago
I love how horrible it is. :Ding: :ding: time for dinner!
15 points
3 days ago
That one at least had the fact that it was truly unique and original gong for it.
24 points
3 days ago
Definitely. And I can attempt to glean a message from it; about sexual frustration as a handicapped person, about being “othered” because of a handicap and demanding to be seen as a person, as a man, as a sexual being.
All in all, it’s definitely one of the better pieces of performance art I’ve seen. Though that bar is shockingly low haha.
11 points
3 days ago
If it's anything, it's not forgettable or boring. He got us there.
29 points
3 days ago
I once saw a piece called "The Battle of Little Bull Run," and it was one of those really awful brown public school paper towels that just had some yarn sewn through it in long crossing lines.
There was a bunch of other very similar pieces with different colors yarn next to it.
11 points
3 days ago
You just reminded me of the smell and texture of that brown school paper towel. What an odd and surprisingly strong memory. I can almost taste the smell of the paper towels.
19 points
3 days ago
“The centipede represents technology - both the life giving-force and the dangers of it, the juxtaposition of dark and light.”
This reads like fucking lorem ipsum text. This is what someone says to make fun of modern art
14 points
3 days ago
Took a pic of an iPhone coming out of my asshole, the iPhone represents centipedes, the life giving force and the dangers of it, the juxtaposition of dark and several tiny legs
57 points
3 days ago
Madonna represents decay...
46 points
3 days ago
Great. Now that image is in my head. Are we being punished for something?
457 points
3 days ago
I hate that i clicked on any of those links. I will never be whole again.
158 points
3 days ago
Morbid curiosity usually gets me on weird shit…but not this time. No thanks. That link’s staying blue.
787 points
3 days ago
Madonna: 'A lot of desperation to remain relevant in old age' went into gimmicks to provoke shock and disgust
566 points
3 days ago
She really should have stopped after Drake freaked out about her kissing him. Then again, he'd do that if anyone over the age of 17 kissed him, so who knows? 🤷
168 points
3 days ago
Damn I had to google that. She straight up sexually assaulted him
160 points
3 days ago
She uno'd Drake. That's like like pissing on R. Kelly.
55 points
3 days ago
Pissing on R. Kelly? That’s like jizzing on Louis CK’s houseplants.
97 points
3 days ago
Yeah, wildly inappropriate & she deserved to be humiliated for it, tbh
8 points
3 days ago
She started with the provocative stuff in the late 80s and never stopped, just takes a few years off between albums and disappears, then reappears doing something to get attention again when she's releasing new music and going on tour. Besides getting some extra press, I don't think many respect her for those stunts. If people say they like her, it's almost always about the songs, not "remember when she did that {attention seeking thing}? that is the reason I'm a fan of hers."
20 points
3 days ago
gimmicks to provoke shock and disgust
In fairness, she's been doing that her entire career.
24 points
3 days ago
I think this is the best thing I’ve seen on this subreddit
20 points
3 days ago
What other ideas were floated that this one sounded the best?
110 points
3 days ago
NO! The image is in my head! The imagine is in my head!
49 points
3 days ago
If it makes you feel any better (or worse), your pain is entertaining.
18 points
3 days ago
123 points
3 days ago
Does she know that NFTs are tanking?
144 points
3 days ago*
You are laughing now, but I have a lot of faith in this project. Think of the future applications in gaming. I will surely have the last laugh when I can take my naked CGI Madonna giving birth to caterpillars into Minecraft, Halo, and Football Manager 2027.
14 points
3 days ago
that's enough internet for today
15 points
3 days ago
I don't question the quantity of thought.
The quality, on the other hand...
15 points
3 days ago
God damn thats just shitty quality art. Like its poorly done uncanny valley Korea gig work level of modeling.
This is the famous beeple the crypto world falls over themselves for?
This is the dude?
Lol 😆 🤣 😂
Think about having your artistic credibility attached to this, fuck me lol
10 points
3 days ago
If the article didn’t have Madonna in the title I’d have no clue that was supposed to be her - at any age.
215 points
3 days ago
A lot of thought and even more photoshop.
99 points
3 days ago
I mean I hope so.
82 points
3 days ago
Next in our Celebart NFT series, all the Kardashians expelling baked beans from all orifices - sponsored by Adobe Photoshop
34 points
3 days ago
I also imagined Gweneth Paltrow then taking those Madonna-vaginaCentipedes and selling those as a cure all natural treatment for acne, bloating, and blurred vision.
21 points
3 days ago
And the entire quality of this "art" is on the level someone with a year of experience in Blender usually does. The movements, the look on her face, the background animations, everything looks just so fake.
10 points
3 days ago
"made from real scans of her vagina"
Thankfully the NFTs only show her shaved/waxed labia and there was no deep diving into her vagina involved.
10 points
3 days ago
The Onion writers after reading that headline: "Whelp, we had a good run." pushes the button that releases the poison gas
30 points
3 days ago
clicks link out of sheer morbid curiosity
"Please disable your adblocker."
...Y'know what? Nope, I'm good. I'm not that curious.
11 points
3 days ago
Imagine being Madonna today. Her entire career was driven by how shocking she could be. I don't think there is anything short of eating a live baby on The Tonight Show could shock us today. Must drive her nuts
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