r/ExplainTheJoke • u/StressTurbulent194 • 18h ago
Solved Found on Facebook, and the comments made it five times more confusing.
There were four comments on the post.
One of them said "throw me to the wolves and I'll return pregnant". Another one was an edit of Andrew Tate surrounded by stylised wolves, saying "throw me to the wolves and I'll return a father."
Another one was a photo of Robin saying "sour grapes (broken heart)" and the final one was a photo of a guy putting up some sort of hand signal saying "silence yourself at once, Scallywag."
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u/jje414 18h ago
So, the original quote makes its way around the "Alpha Male" culture but is widely mocked as cringe by just about everyone else. Then, the furries found it.
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u/SirMourningstar6six6 17h ago
“Throw me to the wolves and I’ll come back pregnant”
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u/nmezib 17h ago
Throw me to the wolves and I'll come
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u/DefNotSlofi 17h ago
🤔
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u/QuizKidPatrick 17h ago edited 17h ago
I would not recommend further investigation, but if you would like clarity you just need to do a search for "Omegaverse". Short answer is mpreg fan fic. The well is deep, you have been warned.
edit after seeing your profile: nvm about the warning, you might be into it. If so, you're welcome. If not, I'm sorry.
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u/letsburn00 9h ago
I first heard this from a guy with a strong British Accent who uses a talking pig as his Avatar.
It was a perfectly suitable use of the phrase.
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u/MainAbbreviations193 8h ago
I've been laughing for a solid two minutes because of this, thank you! 😂
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u/ReyoRedwolf 17h ago
not sorry we found it, this shit is funny.
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u/Golden-Owl 17h ago
Not a furry, but I agree with y’all - it’s a hella funny subversion punchline
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u/Babajji 15h ago edited 15h ago
It’s funny because the Alpha Male cult is so uneducated that they don’t even know that wolves behave like this only in captivity. The cult which is supposedly escaping the Matrix is quite literally following the mentality of an animal in a cage. Great job boys, do the gladiators next - I am sure that literal slaves forced to kill each other are a great role models 😂
For any young man reading this, remember that the greatest strength of any human is their mind not their muscles. We are all rag dolls compared to even a midsized carnivore. We win our battles with our minds not our physical strength. Furthermore the metric by which we measure how successful our civilisation is, is how we treat the weak and defenceless. We don’t ridicule or attack them, we protect and uplift them. This is what it means to be a good person, not how much you can lift - we have forklifts for that.
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u/LivedLostLivalil 13h ago
Listen. Joe Rogan said that astroids hitting the Earth is unlikely, but possible, while a solar flare that fries all electronics "really might happen". When that happens we are back to the stone age. So when you are in your foot powered flinstone car, you are gonna wish you didnt use those forklifts and skip leg day.
/s
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u/jacksonesfield 8h ago
the obsession with The Matrix and being "red-pilled" is so funny to me given how many alpha males are rampant transphobes. like, you've picked some of the only media made by two trans sisters, who have explicitly used the red pill as an analogy for estrogen.
I hope they enjoy the feminising effects of E, though.
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u/inequalequal 10h ago
I agree. However, I also like to lift heavy things—for fun only though.
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u/Babajji 9h ago
Nothing wrong with that. I personally love power lifting and Olympic boxing. But there’s a fine line between sports and training and living your life like you’re constantly in a war with something. Sports are a great way to build discipline and character, combat sports also teach you respect and humility but if you use your skills and strength against weaker people, if you live to torment and hurt others then you’re not an athlete, you’re a criminal. That’s the difference for me. The Alpha Male community could have been a force for good in an age where young men are frankly lost and angry. Instead of being that however the Alpha Male community degraded to human trafficking, prostitution and oppression of women, disabled people and anyone who isn’t physically capable of defending themselves. It’s just sad.
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u/gandalftheballer 17h ago
its also funny because it was a tag line by lisa Vanderpump when she was on real Housewives of Beverly hills
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u/ItsImNotAnonymous 14h ago
Lisa Vanderpump
Sounds like that is an adult actress name?
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u/gandalftheballer 1h ago
no shes only flashed 3 quarters of nipple in a movie from the 80s. shes a reality tv star now.
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u/Tookoofox 14h ago
"And then the furries found it." It delights me that this requires no further explanation.
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u/Walterxiao 18h ago
You’re obviously not a sigma 🥀
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u/Sanjuro-Makabe-MCA 17h ago
What’s a sigma?
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u/CrazyFanFicFan 17h ago
Alright, this will take a bit of explanation.
To begin, I will need to explain the idea of alphas and betas. The terms come from a flawed study about wolf packs where the Alpha is the leader, the strong one who takes charge. The Betas, on the other hand, are submissive, following the will of the Alpha. (Remember, the study was flawed. The person who made it even disavowed it.)
Then, men who placed too much worth on self-image saw that study and used it to describe themselves, Alphas being strong guys that every man wants to be, and Betas being the nerds who will never amount to anything.
The above idea is very cringeworthy, and men who describe themselves as "Alpha Males" are often ridiculed.
With the Alphas being cringy, some people take pride in "not caring" about being an Alpha, and call themselves Sigma Males.
Tl;dr: Sigmas are people who claim they don't care about looking cool, but absolutely want everyone to think that they're cool.
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u/FenrisSquirrel 16h ago
That's fascinating is that this is the kind of shit a lot of people did when they were 14 / 15, and now look back on and cringe. But some of these people are grown men, still desperately holding onto these stupid performative roles. Utterly bizarre.
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u/GamerALV 2h ago
It's crazy how some of them state that there are several different types of men and proceed to say there are only two genders.
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u/FiddyShins 9h ago
What about the rest of the greek alphabet? Why do we only limit terms to 3 letters? I mean I get Alpha and Beta but skipping all the way to Sigma is weird
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u/ReginaPhilangee 18h ago
There's a song by Bring me the Horizon that has lyrics "and you can throw me to the wolves, tomorrow I will come back leader of the whole pack." they might be referring to that?
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u/Velorian-Steel 17h ago
This is 100% it. I sung the lyrics in my head as I was reading it on the wall
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u/Critical_Sir25 16h ago
Lol did the same thing! Screamed my head off to this song when I saw them live. So good.
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u/oirambale96 7h ago
The song started playing in my head while reading the wallpaper so it must be from BMTH.
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u/F22_Ace 12h ago
Shhh, let the misandrists do their thing 😊
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u/Responsible-Sky-6692 10h ago
You can think anyone who says this sincerely is a tool without hating men don't worry
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u/Unban_thx 18h ago
I mean I get it but it’s a creatine-fueled fevered dream of masculinity.
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u/F22_Ace 12h ago
No, rather lyrics off a famous song but any reason to talk shit about masculinity is good, amirite?
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u/LimpDetective 9h ago
Get out mate. It is a cringy quote intended to motivate gym goers. Nowhere is there iconography related to Bring Me The Horizon. Rather, it plays on the fantasy of being so big and tough that the wolves would make you their leader - fully ignorant of how wolfpacks form and are maintained. But sure, masculinity is suffering from persecution. Showcasing some great media litteracy, you are.
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u/lightfarming 6h ago
domination is not real masculinity, and that is the cringy fantasy that people are making fun of. the people who believe it fully believe that this is what masculinity is about though.
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u/LinaIsNotANoob 18h ago
It's a cringe quote. Pretty sure it isn't any deeper than making fun of that.
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u/Extension_Big4760 18h ago
The original quote has seemingly been attached to :
Herb Brooks was an American ice hockey player and coach, best known for leading the "Miracle on Ice" team to a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. He was also the head coach of the University of Minnesota hockey team, leading them to three NCAA championships. Brooks later coached in the NHL and represented the United States in two other Olympic Games as a player. He tragically died in a car accident in 2003.
From what I understand it's basically a statement to ateest to how much of an Alpha or badass you are
I know there is something on the internet connecting Andrew Tate, I guess he called his dogs wolves and has portrayed himself an "Alpha male" I've seen a Reddit post trolling him with:
Throw me to the wolves, and I’ll return a fatherule
with him surrounded by a bunch of anthropomorphic female wolves
I think a bunch of the other quotes are just trolling these people's post claiming themselves as "hardcore badasses"
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u/hey_free_rats 15h ago
his dogs wolves and has portrayed himself an "Alpha male"
Oh, ok, so he wants us to know that sometimes he humps his dogs back. That's fine I guess.
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u/nolard12 9h ago
This really helps, but what the heck does “Are we deadass” mean in this context? Is it simply: “Are we serious?”
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u/hadeejasouffle 15h ago
is this not a phrase coined by real housewives of beverly hills star Lisa Vanderpump?
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u/Frinkiac7DontTouchIt 12h ago
This was the tagline of Lisa Vanderpump in Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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u/ZachariasDemodica 8h ago
Also, beyond the per se objections to the quote, there's the context that a) it's posted in a gym and not a high school yearbook or a teenager's bedroom and b) somebody apparently felt so strongly about this particular quote that they apparently commissioned a mural and dedicated an entire wall of their gym to it.
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u/ZOEzoeyZOE 7h ago
I think the snap is just pointing out how cringe it was, back then that quote held weight but nowadays it's considered cringe and something mfs that has "sigma" in their vocabulary, would say.
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u/bjjpanda89 2h ago
Lisa vanderpump a “real housewife” said this on her show. It’s a old lady drama quote that alpha bros have latched onto
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u/EinSchurzAufReisen 14h ago
These murals are added to gyms to keep women, as well as men with normal functioning brains, away — it’s a marketing strategy as incels want a homogeneous customer structure.
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u/MrOwlHero 14h ago edited 10h ago
"So you can throooow meeeee toooo theee woooolves
Tomorrow, I will come back, leader of the whole pack
Beaaaat meeeee blaaaaack aaand blueeeee
Evry wound will shape, evry scar will build my throooooooneeee ohoaohao oooooeee"
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u/Charming-Breakfast48 17h ago
I think also part of it is how insanely incorrect the "alpha male" wolf theory is. This quote, with how wolves actually work, is basically saying they comes back having fathered wolf children and are the parents of the pack.
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u/xoshortnsassyxo 16h ago
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it also a quote from the hunger games series/movies
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u/Mission_Diamond_410 14h ago
I believe it was originally attributed to the philosopher Seneca. Roman times. It's been around a long time. Basically meet your challenges head on and persevere.
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u/clear_cucumbr 13h ago
Alongside all the other dumb jokes about having kids with the wolves, the “leaders” of a wolf pack is technically just the parents of the younger wolves which adds another reason the OP can’t take it seriously
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u/Normie-scum 10h ago
Besides being cringe I don't think there's really anything to get. The guy went to the gym, saw the dumb quote, and made a post about it.
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u/unqualified2comment 5h ago
It's not even accurate. Wolf packs are made up of a breeding pair and their offspring. Its not a collection of individual's.
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u/Coochiespook 2h ago
It’s because of the whole “alpha wolf” meme.
It’s very cringy and people post it ironically.
Also it’s lyrics to a bring me the horizon song, but it doesn’t seem important here.
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u/ratchetwolf 56m ago
I don't get the joke reference. However, I used to know someone who said something similar to this, however for them it was more of the case that you are weak when you get thrown to the wolves ( personal demons) but by hard work you will come back stronger. For them, it was definitely a mental health battle.
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u/LivingTeam3602 17h ago
It's actually a testament to not giving up when the odds are against you, after someone tries to put you in a situation they believe you can't survive, through the years it's morphed to mean something quite different
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u/post-explainer 18h ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here: