Talk:"Yo mama" joke

Semi-protected edit request on 9 February 2024

add an example about the joke 108.2.137.86 (talk) 13:17, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 14:14, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 18 February 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. Not gonna pass. (non-admin closure) Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 20:09, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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"Yo mama" joke → "Your mom" joke – Per Ngram. "Your mom" has a higher usage than "Yo mama". Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 21:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Comedy has been notified of this discussion. Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 21:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Oppose. The Ngram statistics show all usages of the two word phrase, including non-joke contexts. "Yo mama" jokes have inspired multi-season TV shows, but "Your mom" hasn't. BBQboffin^{grill me} 06:40, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

• Improved ngram prefers "Yo momma". Dekimasuよ! 10:38, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Strong oppose the Ngram includes all uses of "your mom." Esolo5002 (talk) 23:19, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

• A thought. "Yo momma so fat" and "Your mom goes to college" are two wholly different genres of jokes. Hyperbolick (talk) 07:09, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

• "Yo momma so fat" is the joke (at least if she's not extremely fat - if she is morbidly obese then it borders on abusive unless said "in fun"), "Your mom goes to college" isn't a joke but a statement of fact, which is where the ngrams are difficult to ascertain here. Dekimasu seems to have done a good job in separating the ngrams into jokes and non-jokes. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

  "Your mom goes to college" is definitely a joke, and a well trod joke. The pattern is one person makes a mundane statement and the other person replies with no context to the conversation “your mom [does the thing in the mundane statement]." It's why you can buy "your mom goes to college" T-shirts. Hyperbolick (talk) 23:42, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Never heard of it. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with this page, so as a joke then yes, a different genre. I don't know why it redirects here, probably should have its own page if it is known enough that people recognize it on tee-shirts. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:39, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose per discussion just above, as "Your mom...", which would factor into n-grams, does not belong on this page but should have its own article. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

YOUR MAMA

What does YOU MAMA mean? 2600:E008:56:7898:40A8:F39E:3BBA:6CCB (talk) 00:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

The late 20th century schoolyard "humor."

The specifically relevant modern cultural phenomenon of the joke rising in popularity was largely centered around the culture of elementary school students of the United States of Big Fat Sexy America between 1991-1994. Provoked it would seem by the hit song by LL Cool J in 1990, "Mama said knock you out."

It was a common threat in the early 90's that one would be met with violence if their disrespectful comments were to take aim at one's mother.

The "diarrhea cha cha cha rhyme" pretty much went hand in hand. IntellectualPhilanthropist (talk) 09:32, 6 July 2024 (UTC)