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PaperclipPerfector  4d ago (text post)   2513 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026

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I watched the first episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms this week. Overall I thought it was very good, a real return to form for GoT content. And I was glad that it seems to have kept the more comedic, slice of life tone of the Dunc and Egg novelas, instead of being twisted into Game of Thrones season 11.

And then I got to the scenes for next week and realized they cast an ayylmao as the love interest. Every fucking time. Why do they have to do this?

I had to be sure. After downloading a hundred or so photos of ^^^Tanzyn Crawford^^^ and performing the necessary eye-distance calculations, I have no doubt that she is, in fact, an ayy. I’m sure shills will spring forth from the woodwork to nitpick that there is some human admixture, but I maintain a very firm one-drop rule when it comes to extraterrestrial DNA.

Why do they keep doing this? In the era of imminent presidential disclosure, alien-orchestrated European bank collapse, and 3i-Atlas menacing our solar shores, why must showrunners tastelessly cram ayylmaos into every single media property they can? Mad Max, The Northman, West Side Story, Snow White and now Game of Thrones. And of course, in all of these they insist on paring the ayy girl with the biggest, most strapping human boy they can, in the interest of propagandizing cross-species hybridization.

I am sick of it, but I will probably still tune into the next episode.

Serious question: is this "ayylmao" thing some new meme the kids are using to say "ugly black chick" without saying that?

(I'm not going to mod you for it, though if that's the gag, I'll ask you to speak plainly in the future.)

It's a completely race-neutral joke about people whose eyes are too far apart. See this comment.

It certainly didn't read that way.

FWIW I immediately thought they had cast Anya Taylor Joy when I read that at first. Until the next sentence when he said her actual name.

But the gut reaction was "oh Anya's in this?" not "this dude doesn't like black people in Hollywood"

I generally read past this kind of internet abbreviation unless something in the post is particularly compelling. In this case I looked up the actress first, the acronym later, and didn't see the connection. On reflection, it's a stupider issue than I imagined, and not the kind of thing I typically discuss or care to engage in. That probably sounds arrogant but we all have our lines.

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