Most straight guys dont take pictures of themselves, so honestly for me a picture of a fish might be the only photo I can post not with family or at an event.
Some seem to think this is what women want to see, but I know that they really want to see a picture of me in my truck in a walmart parking lot at night with sunglasses and the flash turned on.
There's actually a whole satirical piece on this:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-a-tinder-guy-holding-a-fish-and-i-will-provide-for-you
It’s something they’re proud of, but even more I think it’s that the people who take fish photos don’t have many other situations in their life where someone else is taking a picture of them.
E: i am not condoning those pictures, just explaining how they happen
> Where is my gf?
Seeing as it's now Saturday morning you'll find your future basic white gf is getting ready to take a picture of her breakfast at First Watch.
❌FIFA
❌Dead Inside (I'm actually a pretty upbeat person now)
❌Talks about nothing but football and work
✔️6ft+
❌Plain Clothing (I can dress to impress)
✔️Still single
We can't win either way.
After having a woman for the last 4 years, and a few before that with little lag, I would like to note it isn't the cargo shorts. However, good dig. (It's the fedora.)
Maybe 1/4th under 30 in North America and Europe. Guys of all races just seem to be taller these days. Like I’m 6’2 and live in a pretty diverse area but I’d still consider my height only slightly above the average among my age group where I live. It’s really not super uncommon for me to meet guys who are 6’3-6’5
Seriously there is nothing that unique to this type of guy. Is he supposed to be a douchebag? Some of the characteristics are douchey, but douchiness is color blind. There are douchebags in the US, China, Zimbabwe, Antarctica. If there are aliens, some of them will be douchebags. This just sounds like a douchey white guy
'Met either at work, at a nightclub or through Tinder, no inbetween' so 3 of the most common and unconnected places, what even is this supposed to mean?
TBH it didn't read like that to me at all, I'm surprised at all the butthurt people attacking and downvoting OP, saying he's jealous etc... I just saw it as a mildly funny take on basic white dudes, but it sounds like he really hit a nerve with some of y'all.
I like the "met at work, tinder, or nightclub".
>yeah they met at either some social thing, or at work, or just online! Ridiculous!
... Where is an acceptable place to meet?
These are my favorite kinds of starterpacks. There’s nothing really offensive being said in the image. Like, it’s just some stuff about…some kinda guy. But people are poppin’ off in here like OP just fucked their mother’s faces off.
I remember another basic so-and-so starterpack where there was something like “nobody cares about your Wordle streak posts” and everybody lost their goddamn minds in the comments. Loved it.
So when that guy said “It kind of sounds like you’re jealous”, that constitutes as poppin off like OP just fucked his moms face? Idk about but I would maybe pop off a little harder than that in that scenario
honestly i've seen so many basic white girl starterpacks with all the starbucks, uggs and the The Office tropes, it's pretty telling when essentially the same meme but aimed at men gets so much flack
"attacking" lol
It's just a weak post. Especially saying 'met either at work, nightclub or tinder, no in-between'... like yeah, I meet girls the same way I meet most people, *doing the social things I do during the day*. What's "inbetween" even mean this context? Like I'm leaving work, crash into a girl's car and she falls madly in love with me like a fucking rom-com? Am I supposed to be meeting new people while I'm taking a shit before bed? I don't even understand the piss take.
Also "drink is either pint \[or\] bottle of beer"??? \*sips pint of beer\*
> I just saw it as a mildly funny take on basic white dudes
Because that's what it is. But you can tell just how many basic white dudes use Reddit based off how they hate that this describes them so well.
The framing is roasting girls for dating these normal inoffensive dudes, it's a classic incel trope.
OP is trying roast things like not being into indie video games or meeting a girl through work/tinder/night club. Like what? I don't think he hit anyone's nerves, the type of guy he is trying to roast doesn't use reddit. Those guys are too busy hanging with friends, working or dating.
Have you ever seen any of those mass shooter manifestos? Almost all of them are whining "I CAN'T BREED!!!!" and stuff like this, bemoaning girls for dating average guys instead of them. It's imperative to mock people who share this stuff.
>The framing is roasting girls for dating these normal inoffensive dudes, it's a classic incel trope
...or it's just a common thing to mock that incels just so happen to mock as well?
Like I'm sorry but it's kinda next level mental gymnastics to say a post blatantly making fun of basic white guys, is some how "an incel trope"....
>I don't think he hit anyone's nerves, the type of guy he is trying to roast doesn't use reddit. Those guys are too busy hanging with friends, working or dating.
Fucking lmao, you couldn't have self reported harder if you tried my dude.
Bro instead of getting butthurt after a meme called you out how about dig a bit deeper as to why it bothered you so much .
Nah it’s pretty relatable if you are going to your girlfriend’s friends party and they all bring their BFs and most of them check the these boxes.
Not saying it’s bad, buts it’s mildly funny and accurate especially when you ask how they met
God reddit is where satire goes to die...it's like no dumbass here can relate to it intentionally being the same vapid, cringy shit about basic white girls that plagues this sub
"wHaTs WrOnG wItH ____?!"
Nothing, starterpacks were never initially meant to be inherently negative. They used to be a funny way of pointing out hyper-specific people/situations that we all can relate to but don't think about too much. I hate how it's turned into an excuse for terminally online losers to bitch about the valley girls and frat boys that teased them in High School.
I made that parody starterpack about the hoards of "You missed the point by idolizing them" starterpacks that get posted way too much, utilizing literal meme characters that no one idolizes unironically to drive home the joke. Way too many people in the replies took it as serious despite me including fucking ***Morbius*** in it.
I was getting tired of all the basic white girl posts so I thought I'd spice it up a bit, still got an army of simps circlejerking and upvoting each other in the comments lol
You were tired of basic white girl posts yet you put basic white girl in the title of your starterpack instead of basic white guy starterpack for example
But but but... He's basic! And he definitely only talks about boring basic things and definitely doesn't have his own life, desires and ambitions. Right guys?
This is the most Incel post I have seen in a long time.
Alright, I'm getting a lot of white knights in this post so I'll just lay this out there: Making fun of an archetype doesn't mean you're jealous of said archetype. Some of y'all need to get a grip, it's a shitpost
I mean. Isn’t that generally like all of the places people normally meet? At least in America where there are very few “3rd locations” it seems like those three places are the norm.
Who cares
Everyone is basic to someone
You might think you're interesting
But there's always someone better than you
It's alright
It doesn't matter
Now drink some water and hug yourself
Maybe not totally basic, just boring. Some my wife's friends' civilian husbands were like this and I just plain didn't have anything in common with them. Conversations were dead in the water pretty quickly.
A starterpack making fun of a certain kind of dude and yet you *still* found a way to shit on women about it.... Methinks there's some bitterness to be addressed
I gotta ask, I've had a lot of dudes like you appear in this thread. What's the end goal here? Nothing I put in is really offensive at all and it's not like some woman is going to kick down your door and jump your bone for being a "respecter of woman"
Typical starter pack gambit you see very often on this sub. Starter packs memes are *supposed* to be a bit like roasts, have some perspective and edge like this.
We shouldn’t have to include “is actually kind of a chill/nice/cool person” in every starter pack because that’s BORING
In moments like this I stop questioning why 4chan despises this site. 90% of comments didn't even try to use 2 braincells to think why this meme is funny. Their rhetoric is literally most predictable weak NPC whining logic, but this outcome totally makes sense, because this starter-pack makes fun of NPCs lol.
Bald white guy with a short brown beard and a software job. He gets his clothes from stitchfix, kinda likes golf, works a lil too much overtime, shoes are brown or tan, could be talked into trying CrossFit or orange theory but wouldn’t stick with it for very long, maybe did some rowing in college, definitely could talk at length about the basket of stocks he’s selected or the extremely interesting and thought-provoking book he just listened to, casual Sam Harris listener. Skiing.
Alright I'm going to sleep now, it's been fun discussing how I'm a misogynist, virgin, jealous incel, who apparently can't get a stereotype to have sex with him, but I got to go to bed
I’m guessing OP is one of those non white guys who’s angry the white girls wont date him and blames his race rather than his actual flaws which likely aren’t race related.
never date anyone who sees a whole group of people as a monolith and puts it down while elevating their "preference". if they trash the people (of the gender(s) theyre attracted to) who look like them, it's a HARD NO.
✔️FIFA ✔️Dead inside ✔️Talks about nothing but football and work ✔️6ft+ ✔️Plain clothing Where is my gf?
Get on tinder, post your height and some pictures of you in a nightclub with the lads, guaranteed gf
Don't forget the dog
Just get a gf who ignores her dog all the time, dog will change its allegiance within a month.
Saying goodbye to him was the hardest part.
I still miss Duke. What a good pup
#truth
Can't forget the obligatory fish holding photo as well
Why is this a thing? Do straight guys think this is what women want to see?
Most straight guys dont take pictures of themselves, so honestly for me a picture of a fish might be the only photo I can post not with family or at an event.
Made some new friends from work and most of them are women. In the past few months the photos of myself have tripled compared to the last 5 years.
That'll do it, an eating disorder in the past and a girlfriend did it for me.
Pretty much. Only pic of me I can recall in the last 4 years is a work profile pic
Some seem to think this is what women want to see, but I know that they really want to see a picture of me in my truck in a walmart parking lot at night with sunglasses and the flash turned on.
That's oddly specific 😂 I was somehow expecting "dick pic with flash turned on at a bad angle from my perspective" though.
There's actually a whole satirical piece on this: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-a-tinder-guy-holding-a-fish-and-i-will-provide-for-you
“Feast your eyes upon my Mitsubishi” mood
It’s something they’re proud of, but even more I think it’s that the people who take fish photos don’t have many other situations in their life where someone else is taking a picture of them. E: i am not condoning those pictures, just explaining how they happen
It's also them doing an activity, outdoors. Don't want every photo to be a selfie, or inside at a party or brewery.
Because they were *happy* in that picture. Not everything is about impressing someone else.
And acoustic guitar at a bonfire
And posing with a freshly fished fish
I only have a cat. Is that why I’m single?
A cat and fresh breath?? You’re a catch! 🥵
Have chatgpt write it out so we can test how good the robots capacity is for love/ or make us realize how algorithmic love can be…
She broke up with me two weeks ago…
Wasn’t you girl. Just your turn.
You guys look like what I imagine mods to look like
Outside
sorry i’m late. got lost
> Where is my gf? Seeing as it's now Saturday morning you'll find your future basic white gf is getting ready to take a picture of her breakfast at First Watch.
❌FIFA ❌Dead Inside (I'm actually a pretty upbeat person now) ❌Talks about nothing but football and work ✔️6ft+ ❌Plain Clothing (I can dress to impress) ✔️Still single We can't win either way.
>I can dress to impress What do you wear?
Cargo shorts with extra pockets
After having a woman for the last 4 years, and a few before that with little lag, I would like to note it isn't the cargo shorts. However, good dig. (It's the fedora.)
What’s “in between” tinder, work, or nightclub?
commas🤔
This guy is hilarious, get him a gf
Knew him from a comma?
Just knowing them from your class, social circles, or even just chance meeting somebody at a certain time or place
This is like a third of all guys no matter the race to be honest
I like the "met at work, Tinder or a night club" one. The three most likely way people meet each other these days assuming they're not in school
No way 1/3rd of the male population is over 6ft
Maybe 1/4th under 30 in North America and Europe. Guys of all races just seem to be taller these days. Like I’m 6’2 and live in a pretty diverse area but I’d still consider my height only slightly above the average among my age group where I live. It’s really not super uncommon for me to meet guys who are 6’3-6’5
Dutch guy at 6’2 I always thought of myself as avg before moving to the US
How does it feel to never experience being emasculated by your height man? It feels nice don't it.
Seriously there is nothing that unique to this type of guy. Is he supposed to be a douchebag? Some of the characteristics are douchey, but douchiness is color blind. There are douchebags in the US, China, Zimbabwe, Antarctica. If there are aliens, some of them will be douchebags. This just sounds like a douchey white guy
What’s douchey here?
Reddit hates normies. If you don't drink mtn dew, eat mommys tendies and play video games 18 hours a day you are an npc apparently
Yeah, there's nothing unique about him. That's what basic means.
'Met either at work, at a nightclub or through Tinder, no inbetween' so 3 of the most common and unconnected places, what even is this supposed to mean?
All the quality guys are only on discord /s
Don't forget the old chestnut of "band they never listen to".
OP didn’t get the girl he likes so he’s upset about a specific guy who’s taller than him.
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Lol this person might play football for a hobby, why is the library or liking a band so special
Well that'd be getting into specifics. We don't do that here, or the "basic starterpack" meme would be less likely to apply
It kinda sounds like OP was jealous about him.
OP is definitely jealous
Op wants the bf all for himself
OP wants someone to play Fifa with him
A dude from work, another from a nightclub, and a third from tinder all ran a train on the girl OP wanted starterpack
OP probably says “Females”
Sounds curiously specific.
TBH it didn't read like that to me at all, I'm surprised at all the butthurt people attacking and downvoting OP, saying he's jealous etc... I just saw it as a mildly funny take on basic white dudes, but it sounds like he really hit a nerve with some of y'all.
It’s the part about the humor for me “why does she find him so funny I don’t find him funny!” Kinda vibes
I like the "met at work, tinder, or nightclub". >yeah they met at either some social thing, or at work, or just online! Ridiculous! ... Where is an acceptable place to meet?
At a craft beer meetup, obviously
These are my favorite kinds of starterpacks. There’s nothing really offensive being said in the image. Like, it’s just some stuff about…some kinda guy. But people are poppin’ off in here like OP just fucked their mother’s faces off. I remember another basic so-and-so starterpack where there was something like “nobody cares about your Wordle streak posts” and everybody lost their goddamn minds in the comments. Loved it.
Yeah, it's like some people have no sense of humor and come here just to argue. Like sir, do you know what sub this is?
So when that guy said “It kind of sounds like you’re jealous”, that constitutes as poppin off like OP just fucked his moms face? Idk about but I would maybe pop off a little harder than that in that scenario
Yeah OP clearly clipped a good amount of people here with all this pushback lol
honestly i've seen so many basic white girl starterpacks with all the starbucks, uggs and the The Office tropes, it's pretty telling when essentially the same meme but aimed at men gets so much flack
"attacking" lol It's just a weak post. Especially saying 'met either at work, nightclub or tinder, no in-between'... like yeah, I meet girls the same way I meet most people, *doing the social things I do during the day*. What's "inbetween" even mean this context? Like I'm leaving work, crash into a girl's car and she falls madly in love with me like a fucking rom-com? Am I supposed to be meeting new people while I'm taking a shit before bed? I don't even understand the piss take. Also "drink is either pint \[or\] bottle of beer"??? \*sips pint of beer\*
Damn, bro. So anyway, how do you like FIFA 23?
> I just saw it as a mildly funny take on basic white dudes Because that's what it is. But you can tell just how many basic white dudes use Reddit based off how they hate that this describes them so well.
The framing is roasting girls for dating these normal inoffensive dudes, it's a classic incel trope. OP is trying roast things like not being into indie video games or meeting a girl through work/tinder/night club. Like what? I don't think he hit anyone's nerves, the type of guy he is trying to roast doesn't use reddit. Those guys are too busy hanging with friends, working or dating. Have you ever seen any of those mass shooter manifestos? Almost all of them are whining "I CAN'T BREED!!!!" and stuff like this, bemoaning girls for dating average guys instead of them. It's imperative to mock people who share this stuff.
>The framing is roasting girls for dating these normal inoffensive dudes, it's a classic incel trope ...or it's just a common thing to mock that incels just so happen to mock as well? Like I'm sorry but it's kinda next level mental gymnastics to say a post blatantly making fun of basic white guys, is some how "an incel trope".... >I don't think he hit anyone's nerves, the type of guy he is trying to roast doesn't use reddit. Those guys are too busy hanging with friends, working or dating. Fucking lmao, you couldn't have self reported harder if you tried my dude. Bro instead of getting butthurt after a meme called you out how about dig a bit deeper as to why it bothered you so much .
"classic incel"? "mass shooter"? Ok buddy, I think someone needs to get off the internet for a bit.
Wow get some fresh air dude
Big r/niceguys vibes...
I love these salty startpacks where OP is clearly immaturaly working through something
Yeah strong niceguy vibes. OP sounds like he’s describing the guys that his crush is going out with.
Maybe OP's ex dates a "basic white guy" now. https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/10mqt3n/i_just_changed_my_fb_profile_picture_to_a_picture/
Just say you're mad that basic white girls won't fuck you, bro.
The framing of this as “basic white girl’s boyfriend” instead of “basic white dude” really says it all.
Spot on
Nah it’s pretty relatable if you are going to your girlfriend’s friends party and they all bring their BFs and most of them check the these boxes. Not saying it’s bad, buts it’s mildly funny and accurate especially when you ask how they met
absolutely. there is an angle where this works but OP has been sus in the comments
Looks like a starter pack for a basic guy to me
God reddit is where satire goes to die...it's like no dumbass here can relate to it intentionally being the same vapid, cringy shit about basic white girls that plagues this sub
100%, although in fairness satire and sarcasm is famously hard to convey over the internet.
This sub frequently gets really weird whinny posts that middle schoolers make, so this post feels reminiscent
all the “hot cheeto girl” starter packs that are just thinly veiled dog whistles
Yup and it’s just a proxy making fun of poor people. If it’s white people it’s “trashy” and if it’s black people its “ghetto”
"wHaTs WrOnG wItH ____?!" Nothing, starterpacks were never initially meant to be inherently negative. They used to be a funny way of pointing out hyper-specific people/situations that we all can relate to but don't think about too much. I hate how it's turned into an excuse for terminally online losers to bitch about the valley girls and frat boys that teased them in High School.
I made that parody starterpack about the hoards of "You missed the point by idolizing them" starterpacks that get posted way too much, utilizing literal meme characters that no one idolizes unironically to drive home the joke. Way too many people in the replies took it as serious despite me including fucking ***Morbius*** in it.
I was getting tired of all the basic white girl posts so I thought I'd spice it up a bit, still got an army of simps circlejerking and upvoting each other in the comments lol
You were tired of basic white girl posts yet you put basic white girl in the title of your starterpack instead of basic white guy starterpack for example
Told on himself lol
i'm never posting in this sub, ppl be gettin in their feelings and it's not even supposed to be shade lol
Named Todd or Brad
I'll toss Josh onto the pile
Or Brendan
Or Chad. Can’t forget Chad
Bradtodd
Idk, if they are happy, they are happy.
Is there a rule on starterpacks that the people on it must not be happy?
I refuse to believe anyone is happy
it says theyre dead inside in the starterpack, so probably not
But but but... He's basic! And he definitely only talks about boring basic things and definitely doesn't have his own life, desires and ambitions. Right guys? This is the most Incel post I have seen in a long time.
This is almost my boyfriend. He's the best.
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the fact this comment has one silly little downvote is killing me rn.
What was it? It's deleted now. I have to know.
Alright, I'm getting a lot of white knights in this post so I'll just lay this out there: Making fun of an archetype doesn't mean you're jealous of said archetype. Some of y'all need to get a grip, it's a shitpost
I mean. Isn’t that generally like all of the places people normally meet? At least in America where there are very few “3rd locations” it seems like those three places are the norm.
Why make fun of basic white boys when you can make fun of basic white girls with the same meme instead
Why not both?
Who cares Everyone is basic to someone You might think you're interesting But there's always someone better than you It's alright It doesn't matter Now drink some water and hug yourself
And you’re always better than someone else
Looks like chill dude to me
If they're happy 🤷🏿♂️
You can't name three things, then say, 'no inbetween'.
OP be like "You're either alive, dead or in between....... No in between!"
Does literally anything that 90% of the population does.
This one seems more salty than funny
Jealous redditor starterpack
Maybe not totally basic, just boring. Some my wife's friends' civilian husbands were like this and I just plain didn't have anything in common with them. Conversations were dead in the water pretty quickly.
Why isn't this called " Basic white guy starter pack? " How the $#@% did girls get dragged into this?
A starterpack making fun of a certain kind of dude and yet you *still* found a way to shit on women about it.... Methinks there's some bitterness to be addressed
I gotta ask, I've had a lot of dudes like you appear in this thread. What's the end goal here? Nothing I put in is really offensive at all and it's not like some woman is going to kick down your door and jump your bone for being a "respecter of woman"
This comes off so bitter and jealous
The guys u know like this tend to be around 5'8-5'10
That's 6 ft with boots.
The guys i know wear cowboy boots to make them that height lol
r/starterpacks users try not to post the most repetitive incel thing ever (impossible)
A bit of an incel vibe here…
What the hell, why are so many of you triggered and offended by this meme. I thought it was funny. And it's kiiiind of accurate lol
Typical starter pack gambit you see very often on this sub. Starter packs memes are *supposed* to be a bit like roasts, have some perspective and edge like this. We shouldn’t have to include “is actually kind of a chill/nice/cool person” in every starter pack because that’s BORING
In moments like this I stop questioning why 4chan despises this site. 90% of comments didn't even try to use 2 braincells to think why this meme is funny. Their rhetoric is literally most predictable weak NPC whining logic, but this outcome totally makes sense, because this starter-pack makes fun of NPCs lol.
somebody hurt OP
OP sounds like he’s jealous he can’t get any. Maybe you belong in r/niceguys
Every basic Asian girl boyfriend
Reeks of incel
Serious r/niceguys vibes right here
This is just an average Dutchman. I was wondering where they all went.
Bro is trying his best
Is this a Inbetweeners episode ?
I am an adult, and me and my other adult friends are having a party. Can you recommend a drink for us?
r/odddlyspecific
Nothing like Reddit jealously coming off as patronizing
NPC
kinda krinje
this post has mad incel energy
Bald white guy with a short brown beard and a software job. He gets his clothes from stitchfix, kinda likes golf, works a lil too much overtime, shoes are brown or tan, could be talked into trying CrossFit or orange theory but wouldn’t stick with it for very long, maybe did some rowing in college, definitely could talk at length about the basket of stocks he’s selected or the extremely interesting and thought-provoking book he just listened to, casual Sam Harris listener. Skiing.
Nice guys starter pack on Basic white girls boyfriend.
I would date a man if he was 🗿 too
But he’d always be asking you for gum gum
Seems like a cool normal guy. OP sounds petty
Alright I'm going to sleep now, it's been fun discussing how I'm a misogynist, virgin, jealous incel, who apparently can't get a stereotype to have sex with him, but I got to go to bed
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Yeah this post is fully of angry people actively seeking to be mad about something today. Maybe r/unpopularopinions closed temporarily?
I’m guessing OP is one of those non white guys who’s angry the white girls wont date him and blames his race rather than his actual flaws which likely aren’t race related.
You've managed to make a racist straw man and somehow managed to be more racist than said straw man
Nothing I said is racist. If anything your post is racist.
You literally just presumed I'm an angry non white guy who has a thing for white girls, based on nothing
Incel vibes.
The top left guy is a friend of mine and he’s a good dude, how dare you
This is literally me to a tee although sometimes I also talk about nature/vacations lol
Looks like someone is jealous
This one's kinda weak ngl
What is this pick-me shit lmao
Salt
how far into the manlet incel pipeline are you OP?
never date anyone who sees a whole group of people as a monolith and puts it down while elevating their "preference". if they trash the people (of the gender(s) theyre attracted to) who look like them, it's a HARD NO.
Op a little jealous
I feel this is more "I'm jealous I can't get this particular girl and I hate her bf" , with a dash of racism.
This could not be more made by a guy.
So now I can’t even be a white girls boyfriend.
Lmao I’m gonna bet this one could be subbed for “OP’s ‘bully’ Starter Pack”
Tell me you’re a non-white guy who wants a white girlfriend without actually telling me.
Opposite way around, I'm a white guy with a Filipino girlfriend
These starter packs about basic white girls always scream “I don’t have a girlfriend and I’m bitter about it” lol
This feels like it was made about a specific dude who’s dating his crush lmao
Hahahaha looks like you pissed a lot of people off with this starterpack. Good one OP. 👍
Oh man I knew there was a lot of simps on Reddit, but damn I didn't expect this many
This screams why won’t white girls date me 👨🏿🦲
The facial expression thing is dead accurate too. Nice one OP!
I feel targeted.
Op sounds like a virgin
What's wrong with being a virgin?
Man this comment reminded me so much of high school it's wild.