r/dankmemes • u/luxusbuerg šŸ‡±šŸ‡ŗMENG DOHEEMIESšŸ—暟‘‘ • Jan 23 '22

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u/amitaish Jan 23 '22

Most weebs are okay.

Influencers are mot all bad, but aome are really bad

Nft bitches are just dumb and back up their dumbness with even more dumbness

Dream stans are fucking psychos

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

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u/WorldDominator56 Jan 23 '22

Dream is a very popular Minecraft YouTuber with a large fan base.

A Stan is someone who is obsessively fawning over any person or thing (the term comes from the Eminem song of the same name, in which the main character (Stan) obsesses over Eminem to such a degree he drives a car of a bridge with both him and his pregnant girlfriend in the car).

So a Dream Stan is someone who obsesses over Dream. Most people will say that ā€œStanā€ is just another way of saying ā€œa big fanā€ but I will personally forever interpret it in a negative light for the Eminem song

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u/VulpesSophos Jan 23 '22

TIL where Stan comes from

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u/WorldDominator56 Jan 23 '22

The song itself is very good. Hereā€™s a link to it if you want to listen to it.

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u/PandaHipster_ Jan 23 '22

iirc correctly itā€™s a combination of the words ā€œstalkerā€ and ā€œfanā€

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

It's not. That's something people made up later as they saw a potential portmanteau.

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u/PandaHipster_ Jan 23 '22

Yeah looked it up shortly after posting that comment and seems like it was just a theory for why Eminem chose the name. My bad.

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u/ELL_YAY Jan 23 '22

Even if wrong it actually does fit as an accurate description of the name.

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u/Maclimes Jan 23 '22

What caused Stan to come back? That song is over 20 years old. Why did it suddenly pop back up and gain enough popularity to create slang?

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u/WorldDominator56 Jan 23 '22

That is a fantastic question. I know Stan has been used long before dream, at least 4 or so years prior, but I couldnā€™t tell you why itā€™s slang to begin with

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u/SuperSMT reposts all over the damn place Jan 23 '22

I think it first came back in relation to kpop? That's at least where i first saw it commonly used. Then it grew from there to become a general internet term

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u/Maclimes Jan 23 '22

Okay, but like, why? What does Eminem have to do with k-pop?

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u/SuperSMT reposts all over the damn place Jan 23 '22

Nothing, that community just seemed to latch on to the term and adopt it. It existed online as its own thing unrelated to eminem before then, it just wasn't in wide use until they started using it

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u/im_not_really_batman Jan 23 '22

Idk who Dream is, but his mask looks like Cryaotic's avatar. Cryaotic got outed as a groomer and left YouTube a couple of years ago.

Conspiracy theory time: when did Dream join YouTube?

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

Thank you for explaining who Dream is. I had no idea and am not into Minecraft at all.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

a Stan is not a way of saying a big fan. no no, those mfers have unhealthy obsessions and bad kinks about these people.

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u/FilmAdministrative44 Jan 24 '22

isn't Stan the combo out of stalker and fan? either that's a coincidence or Eminem based it off of that.

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u/OckarySlime Jan 23 '22

A mistake

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

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u/Yoshi2255 Jan 23 '22

It's like rectangle square thing, not every mistake is a dream stan but every dream stan is a mistake

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

its like a venn diagram with a small circle titled 'dream stans' inside a big circle titled 'mistakes'

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u/IMNOVIRGIN Jan 23 '22

Trust me, if you're a mistake then I don't want to know what the fuck a dream Stan is classified as

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u/cat-toaster Jan 24 '22

thank you anime tiddie expert

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u/pizzaisgurd Jan 23 '22

People who stan dream

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

Someone that simps dream

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

Fatherless behaviour

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u/Charming_Amphibian91 Jan 23 '22

Mouth breathing condom ads

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u/JA5SP3R Jan 23 '22

He plays mine craft once a year and has lied to the masses about his appearance.

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u/JesusChristwillsucc Jan 23 '22

a mental sickness

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u/eggdoghaha Jan 24 '22

a kid with a mental illness

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '22

Stan means a fan who is obsessed with someone or something.

And Dream stans are obsessed with the Minecraft Youtuber Dream.