Point

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(Farquaad image)
== Description ==
"Point" refers to a rather in-depth Meme Council inside joke, in which a user will mock another for doing something, saying something, or enjoying something. However, before the mockery is sent, an HD image of Lord Farquaad from the blu-ray copy of Shrek would be sent. This image is typically used for a similar purpose, as it is often captioned as per the source material: "The ogre has fallen in love with the princess!". However, no caption is ever added in this new 'point format'. The sheer facial expression and pointing gesture by Farquaad and of course the history behind both the meme and the amazing film that is Shrek (2001) make this meme that much stupider.
For example:
(Farquaad image)
Is reading a description of the point joke
== History of this awful joke ==
The first use of the "point" format joke was used on April 30, 2022, by Meme Lord. This was in response to Mike Kachowski listening to Lena Optimus Prime Raine Block Game music on Spotify, which Meme Lord previously made fun of him for seemingly listening to it constantly. No mockery line was made however, and the simple use of a screenshot of Mike Kachowski's discord status spotify and the image conveyed it well enough. Meme Lord even remarks it wasn't even the right "point image" he wanted to send. 
However, the first TRUE use of the "point" joke was on May 27, 2022, where Tactician posted a video on Fire Emblem characters, to which Meme Lord immediately responded with the Farquaad image and right after, the text "cares about anime". This would withstand as the basic format of this joke up until this day. Meme Lord did this multiple times following this for the next few weeks, mainly whenever anime was mentioned. Mike Kachowski soon began retaliating with the same joke, often resulting in some lengthy back-and-forth battles. 
However, as is the case with all Meme Council jokes, the joke eventually degraded, and not even 4 days passed when Meme Lord began simply stating "Farquaad pointing" as a response, belittling Mike Kachowski for using Reddit. On 6/10/2022, Meme Lord degraded it to a form that would last many months, simply stating "point". It was appropriately used to make fun of the British. 
Of course, this doesn't mean the image version was phased out entirely, just far less common, and perhaps it was for the better, because now the joke was being used so much that it would've been irritating both for the sender and the receiver. 
Finally, the most recent development, and perhaps the greatest degradation yet, was the use of a pointing-at-viewer emoji. This emoji previously did not exist whatsoever until late 2021, and didn't exist in Discord until at least October 2022, the unicode symbol not even working for a large number of devices (🫵<-this is probably still just a square). Thus, on October 9, 2022, Meme Lord sent the point emoji for the first time, paired with an emoji of a young Rare Meme Lord of Cinder. It was used as an addition to The Snazzmaster belittling Tactician for "thinking a song is better than a conic section graph". The Snazzmaster points out that the 'point' emoji doesn't even register on his phone. 
This emoji, despite the unicode version of it seemingly not existing yet, would be used as the next generation of this joke up until this day. It was eventually combined with the infamous memeskipper emoji on 10/31/2022 after Mike Kachowski sent a screenshot of his 'frequently used' emojis list, which by pure chance had the point emoji right next to memeskipper, making it seem like he was pointing. Meme Lord immediately cropped the screenshot and sent it as the new "point" format. This became yet another version of this joke and the image is still used frequently. While "point" and Farquaad image are still sent, the joke shows no signs of stopping anytime soon and will surely become more annoying as time goes on.
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Category:Undying Meme Council Jokes
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