Go get the leaf, grandma and your uncles are coming.
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The "absolutely nobody" meme was originally supposed to highlight somebody making an argument for something that obviously nobody had ever felt the need to argue against.
It was usually a very obscure argument about something that nobody else had ever thought about, or the visual version where someone created something that didn't need to be created, or it could be an argument about something that is so obviously true that it is obvious that nobody would ever try arguing against it... And that's it. It doesn't really have any use outside of those two narrow areas.
It barely made sense as a meme in the first place and of course, it was immediately misused by the vast majority of people who used it and just mindlessly tacked it onto anything because it was the popular meme at the time. I was so happy when people stopped using it.
It always makes me think of black folks telling funny stories, like:
"Everybody was minding their business, ain't nobody said shit. This fool walks in with a whole ass baked potato in his mouth like it's normal..."
So I enjoy the memes from that angle, even if they're not coming from the original intent.
That said, even that angle doesn't make this one work.
It's completely useless AND nonsensical. If nobody said nothing, then everybody said something.
You're technically right, which as we all know, is the best kind of right.
I do think that most people's brains gloss right over the logical contradiction and act as if it said that nobody said "anything" rather than "nothing."
But that is not what the meme actually says. Now that you've pointed it out, it's obviously wrong.