• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    “this could be us but you playing” was a meme around 2012-2014, probably influenced by the 2012 song This Could Be Us by Manio.

    It uses slang from the time where a player (/playa) was a man who led women on, often multiple simultaneously, with no desire to committ to a long term relationship.

    The caption was usually (ironically) applied to some kind of awkward couple as if it was the height of romance, with the caption implying itd be the perfect relationship for the author and their interlocutor, if only the other party would take the relationship seriously.

    The image in this thread depicts a couple of “common” fetishes: puppy play and smoking (having smoke blown in one’s face, or being used as an ashtray, or both).