The
answer is Cap’n Crunch.
But
that’s not the real answer.
There
are conditions for this test. The biggest condition: wrong answers
only. So Cap’n Crunch is right. But Cap’n Crunch is wrong.
Even
with the Cap’n removed as an option, it’s likely most people would
stick with cereal mascots for this humorous social media challenge.
That means a list of responses that would likely include Tony
the Tiger, Buzz the Bee, Toucan Sam, Count Chocula, Lucky the
Leprechaun, Snap, Crackle and Pop.
And,
I’m a bit stumped. What exactly is the purpose of tossing up a
cereal mascot or an image from a movie and asking for it to be
identified incorrectly?
Actually,
the answer isn’t that difficult to figure out. It’s a group effort.
The test essentially identifies people that have similar interests,
and brings them together to share a laugh or two.
Look…
if I post a picture of a hammer and ask for wrong answers only,
we might have a great time exploring alternate uses for a hammer.
Might be able to motivate several thousand comments while generating
a tremendous number of followers, shares and hashtags. (Might.)
But…
if I post a picture of something not as easily recognized, suddenly
it becomes a specialized group effort. Sure, it’s not hard to
identify something incorrectly when you have no idea what it is,
but often it could actually help to know what something is in
order to say what it isn’t. This gets even trickier when you want
to do it with a witty response.
I
happen to love the classic game Donkey Kong Country.
If I posted a picture from the game, asked for the game to be
identified with wrong answers, I might cause a bit of a commotion.
But if I add in hashtags of Rambi, Winky, Expresso and Enguarde,
things slide along to a different level and potentially a large
though specific community.
The
wrong answers can separate and unite at the same time, while also
offering a bit of entertainment. Maybe that’s not so bad.
Still,
it’s Cap’n Crunch.
And
there’s a corner of my mind that reacts like it’s trapped inside
an itchy sweater when the candy pictured are M&M’s, the movie
shown is The Wizard of Oz, and the cereal mascot is Cap’n
Crunch.
(The
balance between group bonding and ridiculous seems to exist along
on a very narrow divide.)
Name
a song without using the letter E. Name a state without using
the letter A. Name a color… name an ocean… name whatever. (Bet
you can’t.) Don’t look at this. (And suddenly it’s an itchy sweater
wrapped around my brain with an imaginative and fully-rested three-year-old
sitting next to me asking questions. I want to scream, but I’m
so distracted I can’t even think about screaming.)
I
have to admit, I do like the idea of community. It can be fantastic
to connect with people that have similar interests, especially
when most people around you have no idea why.
An
engineer, a biologist and a statistician were out hunting. Seated
in a blind, they spotted a deer. The engineer shot, but missed
to the right by five feet. The biologist shot at the same time,
but missed to the left by five feet. The statistician shouted:
“We got him!”
Every
invitation on social media isn’t meant for everyone. We don’t
fall into the common-to-all area of the Venn diagram. Some jokes
miss the mark. (Even with a simple answer like Cap’n Crunch.)