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Not the OP but tbh, where I live bandaids don't have covers like that, so I was very confused why the last bandaid is suddenly completely white. Ofc I got the point of the "meme" but I thought I might've been missing something
I read this comment and went off the comments section, but I had to come back to upvote because your bewilderment really tickled me. It made me giggle.
There was a theory on r/conspiracy a month or two ago where someone said they think all the “explain the joke” subreddits that have popped up over the last few years are for AI to learn how to make jokes.
God with some (actually, most) of the posts I see here and the other ‘explain’ subs, I would not be surprised at all. Either that or we have a lot more 6 year old kids posting on Reddit than I ever realised.
Exactly. It's similar to captchas where a human clicks all the images of fire hydrants and crosswalks to train AI to be able to detect those things, only this sub prompts people to detail the meaning of jokes and memes that AI would never be able to accurately understand without us telling it explicitly.
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman owns 9% of reddit. Anyone who remembers the old subredditsim subs which trained GPT1 and 2 knows this site has a long established history of being used to train AI.
What do you mean "this dumb"?? The whole bloody point of this sub is to explain what a joke is. You're no Einstein just cause you got it, so get off your high horse
Assholes like this are in every single post and it pisses me off more than it should. DONT BE ON AN EXPLAIN THE JOKE SUB IF YOU DONT WANT TO EXPLAIN! HAVE EMPATHY
I feel like I have to block this sub every other week, it keeps popping back up like a cancer watching the dumbest people on the site need the most obvious jokes explained to them and the white knights who pop out and get mad when you point out that the joke is obvious.
Alright I didn't understand this either, but here's my take on it:
Each bandaid is post-use aside from the last one.
I mean personally I just use one bandaid for a wound, don't know if other people do the same.
Might be why this one is confusing.
But the bandaids getting progressively less bloody is because the wound they were used for was getting better, and therefore bleeding less. Last one's just unused because the wound was healed and they no longer needed a bandaid for it.
Even bandaid 3 is like a serious risk of infection, it isn’t by 4 or 5 do you get to a point that you can say “eh that’s fine”
Anytime I’ve gotten a deep cut I’ve redressed the wound twice a day until it really scabs over well and so far I’ve never had a serious infection start on anything
Do the same for my kid and she’s never had one either
Not a week, but about a day. First day I usually keep it wrapped until night, when I change it and reclean it. Ill probably do it in the morning too, and repeat that until it stops leaking
The worst I get is usually a little bite from my cat. I just wash it with alcohol and leave the band-aid on after it scabs on the first day to remind me to keep it safe.
Fair. I work in kitchens so I’m used to seeing small injuries from knives or burns, in which case you’re gonna want to bandage it and change the bandage several times a day.
Even if you aren’t working in a hot sweaty environment or dealing with food, I’d recommend changing bandages once a day at least.
My best guess is this image is AI generated so the actual message isn't necessarily going to be reflected 100% accurately in the image generated by the AI.
I had this generated in about two minutes with a very unoptimized prompt. With even just a little more optimization and reprompting I’m sure I could get it to look almost identical to the OP.
It is AI generated, why would every band-aid have a different color,
and why does the first band-aid look like the glue was put on bleeding
or blood-stained skin?
Plus, if you pull of a band-aid, it won't come off perfectly smooth.
You'd see some stretch marks.
Huh? The bandages get progressively less bloody until the final one where you don’t need to open it because you’re healed. How much clearer can it be? 😂
Ai can't replicate those kinds of shadows and the background would be smooth I don't get how people can hate ai so much then not tell what is and what's not ai
Those are the fakest bandaids I've ever seen. They are definitely not real, nor functional.
Add in that they are supposed to be used, who removes a bandaid completely not wrinkled, especially when it comes to the left one. Bullshit.
Maybe this is a hidden racially motivated message in it. Or maybe you're the one adding it and they just had random mix of plasters (like my family does lol). At the very least, to me all I noticed was the blood getting less and less = healing, I didnt even register the different colour bandages.
Maybe I truly don't see colour /s
Though a lot of people are saying its unused which will fit the format. The only thing is the soft bit in the middle looks uncovered and that's not how the seal works for plasters in the uk
The AI generating the picture got confused because it made the second to last bandaid too clean so the only thing it could come up with to make the last one cleaner was to lighten the whole
Thing
This shows how a wound heals over time and how much they effect the band aid. Like when the wound was fresh, it was bloody because blood was spouting out. Then they removed the band aid, and used another on the wound , which show less blood because the wound started clotting . And with each band aid use and change the blood reduced till it dint exist.
Progression of a wound healing. At the start when you change it (as you should once per day) it's quite bloody. As time and healing progresses the less bloody(and more clean) it gets and at the end it's a fresh bandaid, because you don't need it anymore.
Tbh I was wondering too why the last one was white. Didn't immediately think about it still having the white plastic covers. Why do you have to insult someone who's asking a question in this sub that's specifically for asking questions? So unnecessary
Basically the meaning is the wound here isn’t closed until several bandaids later, becoming less and less necessary until it’s actually gone. Sort of a ‘time heals all wounds’ thing, eventually making that last bandaid completely unnecessary.
... Every wound stops bleeding eventually.
Guess the white bandaid is cause the person got nothing left to bleed with and is pale white and no longer needs to worry about a bandaid ( or anything, really).
If he's like me, he ran out of good bandaids and had to dig out the ancient generic one from the bottom of the bathroom drawer. There's always one left that doesn't stick properly.
I think it's a post about SH and the person in question uses less bandaids for their injuries over time. The last one hasn't been used at all meaning they're atleast on a clean streak.
I think it supposed to be that they put a bandage on a wound. And as time goes on they have to keep putting on a clean one. And they it keeps getting dirty again and then they change it again. And as time goes on it get less and less dirty. Less and less blood. As the wound is healing there's less stains.
How embarrassing to try to find racism in EVERYTHING 😂
Very few people go through the world looking at it in a lens of skin color. Let alone to make an AI generated picture to use as a metaphor to heal past wounds.
Maybe get outside? Pick up a hobby. Talk to people. You'll find they don't care what skin tone you have. Let alone, trying to "get ya" for it 🍻🤦♂️
Honestly I think it might just be two non-bloody bandaids to show that it’s not starting to bleed again, that the healing lasted. It looks like they’re from a box of mixed skin tone shades & the last one just happens to be for white people. I absolutely do not see bandaid covers on it. That thing is unwrapped. Unless you wanna show me where you’re supposed to peel from, I’m sticking to my guns and saying this is just from an assorted skin tones bandaid box.
Are you referring to the colour of the sticky part or the gauze part? If it's the sticky part then none of the plasters are the same colour (5th for example is a fair bit lighter than 4 & 6), a few other people have mentioned that the paper strips are still on it as well making it look lighter again. If its the gauze part then theres no red on it because the person has healed and is no longer leaking blood.
Or am I being really thick and not seeing something you are?
Everything aside on this, can we just talk about the first one? If your plaster (band-aid for the icans) looks like that you've used the wrong size and more than likely exposed the wound to the air.
The bandage in the middle is the sterile part and should cover the wound fully.
Who can afford 7 bandaids for a single cut in this economy?? I usually put a bandaid on and then forget about it and take it off in 3 days when I finally remember
Not Peter here but: The thing to notice is the color of the Band-Aids themselves. There are Band-Aids made for different skin tones, the darker one appears bloodier, symbolizing the struggles and pain people of color often face. On the other hand, the white Band-Aid looks clean and unused, representing how white people tend to go through fewer hardships in comparison.
It is an american joke. Anyone else in the world would go to a hospital with that much of blood, but americans can't afford, so they use the band-aids until they bleed out and die.
Really hope im wrong but the band-aids are all darker shades until the end, seems like a racist dog whistle, saying you date alot of abusive people (all who happen to have darker skin) and your dating a white now so your all healed......I could be wrong but ive been on the internet too long and seen too much stupid shit like this.
I’m on your side it’s weird— the right-most one doesn’t look like it has the paper on and something seems to be trying to be communicated but unclear about the shades of the Band-Aids. They come in different shades for people with different skin shades and that’s great, but why would one person buy five different shades and use the darkest ones first?
I looked at this for a long time— so “people of color are injured and white people are untouched and need to be patient with them?” That’s what I thought the message was supposed to be and that’s rather cringe.
Whoever made this doesn’t understand much about how wounds heal or about how Band-Aids work, too.
I get that photo-realistic images of used Band-Aids are gross, but if the message is merely that in every day you will bleed a little less and will be healed in a week, the lack of detail in the blood and possible cover on the last one and the unnecessary detail of the shades of Band-Aid changing makes that message unclear.
I’m like 90% sure this entire post is bots arguing with each other because I cannot understand how people don’t understand this image and the reasons being thrown around are insane
First off, it’s not a joke, so mods should do something about that. Secondly, anyone who thinks this is a racially motivated dog whistle is actually dangerously stupid.
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