Well reasoned, makes sense in the context, and doesn’t require any logical big leaps or rejection of established canon.
This is what all fan theories should look like
The weirdest, stupidest one has to be that Ash is dreaming the entire series, even though his coma is still happening in the context of the Pokemon world.
No, sorta the witch tied to the pole in the middle of the village who everyone throws stones at, so they can blame all their suffering and conflicts on her.
As in, "Oh, your house burned down‽ Must be the evil witch." Or in, "Hey stop fighting you two, don't let the evil witch's magic influence you!" And so on.
Wow, that didn't sound so bad when I first made that comparison in my head. Now, I sympathize a lot more with you, even if my analogy is pretty broken.
>But it is taxing having the same argument come up all the time
Again. It comes with the territory my dude. If you don't like it don't be a mod
While I won't lose my shit and go spastic like the other guy he and I continue to have a point. At the very least it's bad optics
I am aware it comes with the territory. It isn't about liking or disliking, its a simple frustration and i vented it, nothing more than that.
Call it what you want, I've tried to be as good a mod as i can be, and if anyone wants to take offense to my actual venting, then they can say as much.
A frustrated teacher shouldn't vent about a student that has trouble learning to that same student. Nor should a frazzled parent bitch about parenting hardships to their own kids
Again, I sympathize. But just keep the complaining in the modmail maybe
Woah there. Teachers and parents have vastly different levels of responsibility for those under their care. Mods are more comparable to HOA leadership (no offense to the mods)
Disappointing that someone whose intended to keep the sub on track, has little to no faith in the quality of the content. Disappointing that you'd rather spend your time moderating /r/ihavesex . Disapointing that you could be spending your current time cleaning up some of the low effort stuff, but instead youre here insulting posters and arguing with people who disagree.
I wont be posting in this sub anymore. Google my username if you want to see some of the word-of-mouth I've created for this subreddit, people like my theories enough to make entire websites for them. I'm even in the list of Top users by score sum for this sub.
[Here's one in german](https://www.moviepilot.de/news/aladdin-fan-theorie-erklart-ursprung-der-hohle-der-wunder-199132)
[Italian](https://www.cinematographe.it/news/aladdin-will-smith-genio-guy-ritchie/)
[Or Spanish](http://www.sensacine.com/noticias/cine/noticia-18562142/)
[This](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/this-aladdin-fan-theory-answers-so-many-question) one is in English but it was a front page trending on buzzfeed.
And thats just off the first Google page. So thanks for ruining this sub. I'll find a better place to share them. Aloha.
1) I have never said i have no faith in the sub or its content.
2) r/ihavesex takes almost no effort to mod because it's just pictures, so not sure why that got brought up.
3) I do clean up fairly often. Admitely yes recently I havent been modding this sub a lot, but the reasons for that are unrelated to r/ihavesex. I have been working a lot lately in order to put money down on a house. Modding doesnt really bring in money.
4) I wasn't arguing or insulting anyone. My apologies for voicing my annoyance, at the subs inability to make a decision on whether or not theories should have a strict adherence to canon or not.
5) Awesome, you ride that 2017 train for as long as you can.
>instead youre here insulting posters and arguing with people
That will be all for me. Thanks and goodbye.
Edit: moderators have no right to demean the content of a sub that they moderate. If you have a problem, youre the one with the power to fix it. I stand behind what I said. This is obviously not the sub it once was.
Hes complaining about quality of posting in the sub by saying "I dont make the rules, I just think them up and right them down"
If he's not happy with the sub, run it differently. I was completely happy with the sub, but im done carrying these moderators who obviously couldn't care less about the content here. The fact of the matter is the shit I write is popular because I'm a professional writer. No one is asked to spend time creating content for this sub, i was just doing it for people to enjoy. But if the leaders of the sub wanna brazenly talk about not enjoying the content here, then there are different avenues for me (and the other top posters here) to go through.
Have you noticed how of the people who are replying to my comments right now, none of them have actually ever posted a theory to this subreddit? The closest was a guy who had a single comment with 300 karma. There is a disconnect between the people creating the content, the moderators, and the lurkers.
Says a guy who's never posted in this sub before, to one of the top posters of the sub with 10s of thousands of karma in OC from here. This sub is definitely going to survive with your help.
[One of my highest rated comments was posted on this sub seven years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/107zx5/z/c6b67yk). I've been an active user here longer than you've been on reddit.
Again, watch out for the door.
Do you think a 6 word comment, with 300 upvotes, that contributed absolutely nothing to a post equates to any of
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/b2nm1d/pokemon_ash_never_recognizes_jesse_and_james_of/)
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/78220z/aladdin_the_cave_of_wonders_was_the_3rd_wish_of)
[Or this](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/9idabc/avatartla_at_the_beginning_of_the_series_katara/)
[Or this](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/75djqe/the_simpsons_the_reason_moe_syslak_is_so_easy_to)
Pick any 2 of those and they equate to more post karma than you have over 9 years on reddit. But totally, your 1 comment from years ago is definitely keeping the sub thriving. I'm surprised that you aren't embarrassed to even link that to me. People who comment on my posts get more upvotes than that, look for yourself.
I saw this the day it was first posted, but I just started rewatching Legend of Korra, and in s1ep5 the sponsor for the pro bending match is some place called Flameo Noodles or something like that. Just thought that if it had actually been a curse, whether 150 years ago or so or even recently, then a store wouldn’t have been named after it. I still like the theory though.
mmm, but LOK happened after ATLA, so the phrase "flamio" could've fallen out of style, (which would explain why Aang gets weird looks in the fire nation) only to be revitalized by Aang after he brings peace to the world. However, I can't disprove your claim.
That’s how I understood the joke too. That it was a normal thing to say a hundred years ago, but now no one talks like that. Not that Kuzon was messing with Aang. It’s like if a dude from the past came to our day and was going around saying “Golly gee willickers.”
This was my understanding as the term "gay old time" means something completely different now than it did in the 60s.
But in both cases, Mr Flintstone would totally make your Bedrock
I love it!
Imagine a 12 year old at your local festival turning to _everyone_ like “Get bent f*ggot” with a slight bow, grinning enthusiastically, and his two friends just looking tired.
Amazing theory, and if Bumi is an example, we know Aang is not afraid to make crazy friends.
Hmmm, interesting.
I wonder if both met when Fire Nation at the "ready" stage to full large scale war and Kuzon is very against this thus he teaches Aang "flamio" greeting as sarcasm for the fire nation
> Lin comes out of her office saying “What the flamio happened in here?” Flamio is a swear in Avatar.
To be fair, with how long that was after TLA it could just be that Flamio became a word that people actually said specifically because Aang said it.
I mean, think about it, how many celebs have said some random phrase or had a motto or something and that become something people quote on a regular basis, sometimes even becoming regular speech for some? My thought would be that Flamio good hotman became a bit of a Flame Nation meme of sorts after the events of TLA which eventually spread everywhere and people in Lin's generation probably use it as slang all the time. Think like how "yeet" and "google" are now proper words because of internet slang.
That said, I'm not sure if I like Flamio good hotman being a meme in universe or Flamio being a flame nation swear more, honestly.
I'm from here. [https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/avatar-the-last-airbender-theories-easter-egg-flameo-hotman-meaning](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/avatar-the-last-airbender-theories-easter-egg-flameo-hotman-meaning)
Yes and no. The meanings of a word change over time. So Flamio could have been a common greeting, a swear word, or gibberish depending on the time period. For instance to "know someone" a few centuries ago meant engaging in sexual intercourse.
This opens the possibility for several different combinations of what Kuzon and Flamio means.
I chose a bad example, but there are plenty of more modern words that acquire new connotations to them in only a few years.
One is the word Meme. A few decades ago the word meme described a philosophical concept describing a unit for ideas. Now when most people think of the word meme they think of image macros or funny gifs. Granted the Avatar universe doesn't have the internet so the speed that language evolves would be likely be different, but one century is enough time to make a shift.
Well reasoned, makes sense in the context, and doesn’t require any logical big leaps or rejection of established canon. This is what all fan theories should look like
Agreed. To bad anytime I get put on blast for marking the same argument. Edit - To be clear, I am annoyed by the argument in general, not by you guys.
Can’t you just ban all the “it was a dream” horseshit? *Please?*
Unfortunately no. At least not without a majority of the user base voting on it.
I vote to ban.
I'll second that vote with the exception of inception...
The weirdest, stupidest one has to be that Ash is dreaming the entire series, even though his coma is still happening in the context of the Pokemon world.
You're a mod! If we don't ban together against you, we'd attack each other. Thank you for your sacrifice
Does that make me martyr?
No, sorta the witch tied to the pole in the middle of the village who everyone throws stones at, so they can blame all their suffering and conflicts on her. As in, "Oh, your house burned down‽ Must be the evil witch." Or in, "Hey stop fighting you two, don't let the evil witch's magic influence you!" And so on. Wow, that didn't sound so bad when I first made that comparison in my head. Now, I sympathize a lot more with you, even if my analogy is pretty broken.
Naw i get, i float therefore i am made of wood.
Fan Theory: /u/brycejm1991 weighs the same as a duck
Scapegoat is the word you're looking for.
It's a bit too tame for my liking.
Scapedragon
why are you distinguishing your comment here
Force of habit i guess.
I sympathize with you but a mod complaining about their own sub is tacky af. Taking flack comes with the territory my dude
Taking flack I’m fine with. But it is taxing having the same argument come up all the time, and the only solution is to tell the mods to fuck off.
>But it is taxing having the same argument come up all the time Again. It comes with the territory my dude. If you don't like it don't be a mod While I won't lose my shit and go spastic like the other guy he and I continue to have a point. At the very least it's bad optics
I am aware it comes with the territory. It isn't about liking or disliking, its a simple frustration and i vented it, nothing more than that. Call it what you want, I've tried to be as good a mod as i can be, and if anyone wants to take offense to my actual venting, then they can say as much.
A frustrated teacher shouldn't vent about a student that has trouble learning to that same student. Nor should a frazzled parent bitch about parenting hardships to their own kids Again, I sympathize. But just keep the complaining in the modmail maybe
Woah there. Teachers and parents have vastly different levels of responsibility for those under their care. Mods are more comparable to HOA leadership (no offense to the mods)
Yeah. I have 10s of thousands of karma in this sub and this is a very dissapointing thing to see.
It’s disappointing that I’m tired of an argument that no one wants to actually resolve?
Disappointing that someone whose intended to keep the sub on track, has little to no faith in the quality of the content. Disappointing that you'd rather spend your time moderating /r/ihavesex . Disapointing that you could be spending your current time cleaning up some of the low effort stuff, but instead youre here insulting posters and arguing with people who disagree. I wont be posting in this sub anymore. Google my username if you want to see some of the word-of-mouth I've created for this subreddit, people like my theories enough to make entire websites for them. I'm even in the list of Top users by score sum for this sub. [Here's one in german](https://www.moviepilot.de/news/aladdin-fan-theorie-erklart-ursprung-der-hohle-der-wunder-199132) [Italian](https://www.cinematographe.it/news/aladdin-will-smith-genio-guy-ritchie/) [Or Spanish](http://www.sensacine.com/noticias/cine/noticia-18562142/) [This](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/this-aladdin-fan-theory-answers-so-many-question) one is in English but it was a front page trending on buzzfeed. And thats just off the first Google page. So thanks for ruining this sub. I'll find a better place to share them. Aloha.
1) I have never said i have no faith in the sub or its content. 2) r/ihavesex takes almost no effort to mod because it's just pictures, so not sure why that got brought up. 3) I do clean up fairly often. Admitely yes recently I havent been modding this sub a lot, but the reasons for that are unrelated to r/ihavesex. I have been working a lot lately in order to put money down on a house. Modding doesnt really bring in money. 4) I wasn't arguing or insulting anyone. My apologies for voicing my annoyance, at the subs inability to make a decision on whether or not theories should have a strict adherence to canon or not. 5) Awesome, you ride that 2017 train for as long as you can.
>instead youre here insulting posters and arguing with people That will be all for me. Thanks and goodbye. Edit: moderators have no right to demean the content of a sub that they moderate. If you have a problem, youre the one with the power to fix it. I stand behind what I said. This is obviously not the sub it once was.
I was having a conversation, but sure its an argument. Glad im not allowed to defend my self when your'e the one attacking me.
You are both acting like children.
Lmfao no right? What the fuck do you mean by that? They literally don’t have the right to express themselves get the fuck outta here with that shit.
Hes complaining about quality of posting in the sub by saying "I dont make the rules, I just think them up and right them down" If he's not happy with the sub, run it differently. I was completely happy with the sub, but im done carrying these moderators who obviously couldn't care less about the content here. The fact of the matter is the shit I write is popular because I'm a professional writer. No one is asked to spend time creating content for this sub, i was just doing it for people to enjoy. But if the leaders of the sub wanna brazenly talk about not enjoying the content here, then there are different avenues for me (and the other top posters here) to go through. Have you noticed how of the people who are replying to my comments right now, none of them have actually ever posted a theory to this subreddit? The closest was a guy who had a single comment with 300 karma. There is a disconnect between the people creating the content, the moderators, and the lurkers.
>I wont be posting in this sub anymore Don't let the door hit you on the way out lmao
Says a guy who's never posted in this sub before, to one of the top posters of the sub with 10s of thousands of karma in OC from here. This sub is definitely going to survive with your help.
[One of my highest rated comments was posted on this sub seven years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/107zx5/z/c6b67yk). I've been an active user here longer than you've been on reddit. Again, watch out for the door.
Do you think a 6 word comment, with 300 upvotes, that contributed absolutely nothing to a post equates to any of [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/b2nm1d/pokemon_ash_never_recognizes_jesse_and_james_of/) [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/78220z/aladdin_the_cave_of_wonders_was_the_3rd_wish_of) [Or this](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/9idabc/avatartla_at_the_beginning_of_the_series_katara/) [Or this](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/75djqe/the_simpsons_the_reason_moe_syslak_is_so_easy_to) Pick any 2 of those and they equate to more post karma than you have over 9 years on reddit. But totally, your 1 comment from years ago is definitely keeping the sub thriving. I'm surprised that you aren't embarrassed to even link that to me. People who comment on my posts get more upvotes than that, look for yourself.
Bye Felicia
You take reddit posting way too seriously lmfao
How Karen of you.
[удалено]
By big logical leaps I meant more like mental gymnastics where the connection between the evidence and conclusions are at best a stretch
Not so much. Kyoshi novels directly contradict this. You would have to disregard that canon.
How so?
In Rise of Kyoshi Rangi tells Kirima flameo hot woman and its taken as a normal phrase for everyone.
Also explains why Aang got away with it too since he was wearing a school uniform and that's the sort of thing a kid would do.
And nobody would beat the shit out of him because he’s a schoolboy, and that’s morally wrong
huh. tli
Ahh master yoda, greetings old friend
oll!
Interesting theory, but the book Rise of Kyoshi shows that flameo and hotman/woman was a fire Nation saying
This is what I was going to comment as well! Also it should be noted that Rise is canon per the ATLA creators foreword in the book!
Dang. Shot a hole in that one.
Or it could be an instance of language changing meaning.
You can't shoot a hole into Mars
Not with that attitude
That is a weapon, not a teleporter.
I saw this the day it was first posted, but I just started rewatching Legend of Korra, and in s1ep5 the sponsor for the pro bending match is some place called Flameo Noodles or something like that. Just thought that if it had actually been a curse, whether 150 years ago or so or even recently, then a store wouldn’t have been named after it. I still like the theory though.
https://heathotsauce.com/products/ghost-fuck-yourself Same energy.
But yeah I’m pretty sure it’s disproven but I still like the thought
Yeah me too
Maybe it's the difference between a hard O and a soft O?
FIRE LORD OBAMA GET DOWN
woah calm down there with the hard o bud
*canon
That. Book. Is. So. Bloody. Good.
It is. Shame that Shadow is delayed by two weeks in the UK
mmm, but LOK happened after ATLA, so the phrase "flamio" could've fallen out of style, (which would explain why Aang gets weird looks in the fire nation) only to be revitalized by Aang after he brings peace to the world. However, I can't disprove your claim.
That’s how I understood the joke too. That it was a normal thing to say a hundred years ago, but now no one talks like that. Not that Kuzon was messing with Aang. It’s like if a dude from the past came to our day and was going around saying “Golly gee willickers.”
This was my understanding as the term "gay old time" means something completely different now than it did in the 60s. But in both cases, Mr Flintstone would totally make your Bedrock
The only big hole in this is Flamio brand fire flakes in Lok
The ol’ fuck you fire flakes.
I prefer the *you're a bitch* brand fire flakes myself, they're a bit spicier.
As well as the Flameo Noodles or whatever they’re exactly called (who sponsored one of the pro bending matches in s1ep5).
That's what I was thinking of
I love it! Imagine a 12 year old at your local festival turning to _everyone_ like “Get bent f*ggot” with a slight bow, grinning enthusiastically, and his two friends just looking tired. Amazing theory, and if Bumi is an example, we know Aang is not afraid to make crazy friends.
Imagining a twelve year old going around just saying "Fuck you good sir" with a smile and bow Yeah that's about right.
The Avatar the Last Airbender equivalent of "What the fuck is up, Kyle??"
Hmmm, interesting. I wonder if both met when Fire Nation at the "ready" stage to full large scale war and Kuzon is very against this thus he teaches Aang "flamio" greeting as sarcasm for the fire nation
Holy shit yeah! I thought about this too after watching TLOK!
> Lin comes out of her office saying “What the flamio happened in here?” Flamio is a swear in Avatar. To be fair, with how long that was after TLA it could just be that Flamio became a word that people actually said specifically because Aang said it. I mean, think about it, how many celebs have said some random phrase or had a motto or something and that become something people quote on a regular basis, sometimes even becoming regular speech for some? My thought would be that Flamio good hotman became a bit of a Flame Nation meme of sorts after the events of TLA which eventually spread everywhere and people in Lin's generation probably use it as slang all the time. Think like how "yeet" and "google" are now proper words because of internet slang. That said, I'm not sure if I like Flamio good hotman being a meme in universe or Flamio being a flame nation swear more, honestly.
I'd bet he was running around saying "fuck you!" With an innocent little smile on his face
So then "Flamey-O Instant Noodles" would be like someone in our world making a soup called "Fuck You Stew"?
I'm from here. [https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/avatar-the-last-airbender-theories-easter-egg-flameo-hotman-meaning](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/avatar-the-last-airbender-theories-easter-egg-flameo-hotman-meaning)
Yes and no. The meanings of a word change over time. So Flamio could have been a common greeting, a swear word, or gibberish depending on the time period. For instance to "know someone" a few centuries ago meant engaging in sexual intercourse. This opens the possibility for several different combinations of what Kuzon and Flamio means.
True, but your real life example was several centuries of change. In universe they are only a couple generations apart.
I chose a bad example, but there are plenty of more modern words that acquire new connotations to them in only a few years. One is the word Meme. A few decades ago the word meme described a philosophical concept describing a unit for ideas. Now when most people think of the word meme they think of image macros or funny gifs. Granted the Avatar universe doesn't have the internet so the speed that language evolves would be likely be different, but one century is enough time to make a shift.
Aang brought back flamio and overtime I think it turned into a swear instead of always being a swear.
It could also be that aang taught lin flameo and she uses it as a swear
Someone on tumblr said that Flamio Hotman is a homophobic slur in Avatar land and I love that concept.
Why do you love the concept of Aang casually hurling homophobic slurs?
because it's beyond stupid. note to that 'slur' might be a strong word, it wouldn't be on the level of saying like, 'f*ggot'.
F*ggot is a slur
...that's why I corrected myself and said 'slur' might not be the right word, because I wasn't thinking of anything as severe as that.
Ah I misread your comment. Where you said "it wouldn't be on the level of f*ggot" I misread that as "would be". My bad