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Sometimes... Things That Are Expensive... Are Worse

Sometimes... Things That Are Expensive... Are Worse

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Updated Jul 24, 2017 at 03:38PM EDT by Adam.

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Sometimes… Things That Are Expensive… Are Worse is a quote from the YouTube series The Gay And Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. It grew into a popular reaction image on Tumblr in July of 2017.

Origin

The quote comes from episode 4 of The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo by Bryan Jordan Alvarez. It was posted to YouTube on February 27th, 2017 and has gained over 155,000 views as of July 24th, 2017. The scene in question features the character Freckle talking to Caleb about two guys she invited over to her room the previous night (scene shown below).



Spread

The scene began spreading on Tumblr in July of 2017. On July 6th, 2017, Tumblr user @hyrude[1] posted the scene to his Tumblr with the caption "tell me why this budgetless gay youtube series made for fun by a group of friends has the best editing and writing of anything i’ve watched in a year. also tell me how this single scene can contain every single one of the top three most iconic lines in history." The post gained over 217,000 notes. After that, the line "Sometimes… Things That Are Expensive… Are Worse" began to grow into a reaction image and snowclone on the site used to refer to various different things that "are worse." Some of the most popular edits in which it is used as a reaction image include a post by astralcaptain[2] comparing the budget of Sky High to The Avengers, gaining over 59,000 notes (shown below, left). A post by chirrutbaze[3] applying the post to a scene from the original Star Wars film gained over 7,200 notes (shown below, right).


35 million USD The Avengers Budget 220 million USD AVENDERS Sometimes..things that are expensive...are worse. What/a piece of junk! Sometimes.. ...things that are expensive.. are WOrS E

The image has also become a popular snowclone in which either the original reaction image is edited to give a different message or people use the phrase as a snowclone in text posts. Of the former, one popular example posted by sober-ii[4] fits the phrase "I'm Gay" into the image. That post gained over 19,000 notes (shown below, left). Of the latter, a post by quxnce[5] crossing the line with What She Says, What She Means gained over 18,000 notes (shown below, right). The meme was documented by Meme Documentation on July 21st, 2017.[6]


Sometimes things that are I'M are GAY what she says: i'm fine what she means: so the boys come up to my apartment and i'm wearing a robe. i'm ONLY wearing a robe. and i say "why don't you come into my boudoir and watch me do a monologue?" and they say "where's the bed" and i say "this is the bed right here" and they say "can we sit on the bed?" and i say "sure but these are expensive japanese linen" and they say "but they're not even soft." and i say, "sometimes, things that are expensive...are worse."

Various Examples


LY RAE JEPSENEMO.TION (Deluxe) Carly Rae Jepsen> Pop 14 Items Released 21 Aug 2015 ★★★★☆ (67) $18.99 1989 (Deluxe) Taylor Swift> Pop 20 Items Taylar Swft Released 27 Oct 2014 (4,088) Sometimes...things that are expensive...are worse. Best Seller GOODNIGHT MOON Goodnight Moon Jan 23, 2007 by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd Board book 632 $8.99 vprime Get it by Tomorrow, Jul 22 More Buying Choices 0.01 (392 used& new offers) Kindle Edition #899 Pictures by Clement Hurd The Fountainhead Sep 1,1996 byAyn Rand and Leonard Peikoff Mass Market Paperback 767 $999 prime Get it by Tomorrow, Jul 22 More Buying Choices 0.25 (473 used&new offers) Kindle Edition ☆☆☆☆☆ ▼ 2,061 RAND FOUNTAINHEAD 1299 Other Formats: Paperback, Audible Audio Edition Audio CD, School & Library Binding Sometimes...things that are expensive...are worse. iwontcryforyesterday: the straights™ why isn't there a straight pride? me: everytime ...things that are straight ..are worse. wvrmple: when you wanna go out for chipotle but ya mom says you got tortillas and beans and s--- at home Sometimes..food that are homemade..are worse. Sometimes...trainers that want to be the best are worse Sometimes...things that are popular ...are worse.

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External References

[1] Tumblr – hyrude post

[2] Tumblr – astralcaptain

[3] Tumblr – chirrutbaze

[4] Tumblr – sober-ii

[5] Tumblr – quxnce

[6] Meme Documentation – Explained: sometimes things that are expensive are worse

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This is half century old wisdom in Eastern-Europe.

Yeah sure, western products maybe more cool looking and practical, but the old eastern stuffs are so fucking massive and "stronk" they even survive a nuclear holocaust. When you bought something in the communist era it lasted for a lifetime.

Nowadays it's mostly same with shoes. Oh yeah the new western trendy shoes are really cool, but they fall apart after their first hardship. Meanwhile the chinese "copies" maybe fall apart the same way, but atleast they are enough cheap to replace them.

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