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[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Also this meme is about nine years old.

https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/drug-lsd-reference-in-disney-kids-show-puppy-dog-pals-37231747.html

The article bemoans drug references in Alice In Wonderland , which has uh... Lots of drug references.

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/series/alice-in-wonderland-books-in-order

Idk about the caterpillar smoking hookah though, it's plausible deniability, since afaik, tobacco use is only permitted in hookah, under Islamic law. Maybe @ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world can confirm or deny, or whether it's sect-specific?

[โ€“] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Heyo! Not very big on Islamic jurisprudence because it's often nonsense and haram af as it seeks to make unlawful what God made lawful (Qur'an 16:116) but it's certainly "sect-specific" for lack of a better term, since the Qur'an warns against intoxicants (basically just alcohol but I'm not doing anything "stronger" than that, like crack, even if it's not the result of fermentation, lol) but not against anything else in that category that isn't mind altering and shisha is just tobacco with flavouring, basically. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you so much. I have questions but they have to wait. I should be sleeping.

Catch some zzzs, ttyl! ๐Ÿ‘‹

[โ€“] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

A Reddit thread from April 2017 (possibly its first appearance?) does try to critique it. Notably, for example, there's a hexagon instead of a pentagon at the base, and the top shelf has three edges instead of four.

It's easy enough to explain this away given that you have to make it a shelf and therefore level, but humans have recognized more credible-seeming patterns before (I can't cite them because I can't remember exactly what they were, but I've seen some really funny ones in the Bible), so it also seems plausible that people are just pattern-recognizing. This is professionally animated, so time went into this, and you could imagine, for example, that the bulb hanging down from one of the shelves would've have been included since it changes the structure of the compound (but then you could equally argue that the shelf was there and some other animator put a light bulb on it).

All-in-all: eh. Seems neat as a harmless fan conspiracy.

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 11 hours ago

Nothing wrong with having fun. My complaint is people complaining about references that were in the wholesome original works. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Animators also tend to take a lot of shortcuts, though; especially when it comes to backgrounds in shots. I could definitely believe that some animator was like, "ok, we need a science-y looking decoration back here" and so they went on a royalty-free stock 3D asset website and downloaded this one based only on what it looked like.