Online Stranger Matchmaking at 3AM

Text on the meme

Mom: “don’t talk to strangers online they are probably a bunch of creeps” me and the 40 year old mentally ill alcoholic from Serbia in 3AM matchmaking:

What it means

A bald tattooed man and a blond man in a suit meet in a sunlit game-like courtyard, shake hands, then rapidly escalate into an intense embrace before separating awkwardly. The joke contrasts a mother’s warning about online strangers with the speaker enthusiastically bonding with a supposedly creepy 40-year-old alcoholic from Serbia during late-night matchmaking. Laurindo Almeida’s “The Lamp Is Low,” a gentle jazz-guitar piece, makes the exaggerated intimacy feel oddly romantic and absurd.

Sound

♪ Laurindo Almeida — The Lamp Is Low

music / музыка

Objects

bald muscular man / лысый мускулистый мужчина blond man in a suit / блондин в костюме tattoos / татуировки black tank top / чёрная майка green suit / зелёный костюм white shirt / белая рубашка tie / галстук wristwatch / наручные часы handshake / рукопожатие hug / объятие courtyard / двор stone walls / каменные стены stone pavement / каменная мостовая arched doorway / арочный дверной проём bench / скамья hanging flowers / свисающие цветы game scene / игровая сцена awkward separation / неловкое расставание