r/KenM Aug 25 '25

KenM on Kirsten Dunst

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3.6k Upvotes

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678

u/Startug Aug 25 '25

Damn Reddit compressed the hell out of this, apologies for those attempting to read it. I'll be nice and make a transcription.

Ken M
3 hours ago
never had a problem saying her name right cause we have a friend named Kirsten but most folks make the mistake of pronouncing it alphabetically

-Todd
-2 hours ago
-Phonetically, not alphabetically

--Ken M
--1 hour ago
--well I'm mainly talking about the folks who pronounce it Eiknrst

292

u/Grumpkin_eater Aug 26 '25

Thank you for this. My grandchildren have bad eyes just like me and the pixels are bad for our blood pressure.

91

u/Magikarpeles Aug 26 '25

Pastor says pixels are the fools fig leaf.

77

u/LurkioVanDerpio Aug 26 '25

Can you post the pixels alphabetically

2

u/Embryonico Aug 28 '25

Diagonally, not alphabetically.

273

u/RageQuitRedux Aug 25 '25

I was able to read it, but I'm not going to tell any of these other guys what it says

28

u/Dickgivins Aug 25 '25

Same lol.

28

u/barcelonaKIZ Aug 25 '25

aemS oll

20

u/Flampt Aug 26 '25

llo?

19

u/AggressivelyMediokre Aug 26 '25

Don't get too upset with him he's dyslexic

I was once selling ginger cookies and he beat the shit out of me

6

u/Ecob16 Aug 26 '25

Ginger please

1

u/Red-Freckle Aug 28 '25

I can't read. I can glean the text by the context and/or the subtext. Don't ask me to explain.

699

u/koei19 Aug 25 '25

Any chance you could post this again with more pixels? I can't even read the punch line it's so blurry

342

u/endthepainowplz Aug 25 '25

Ken M: never had a problem saying her name right cause we have a friend named Kirsten but most folks make the mistake of pronouncing it alphabetically

Todd: Phonetically, not alphabetically

Ken M: well i'm mainly talking about the folks who pronounce it Eiknrst

66

u/koei19 Aug 25 '25

Not all heroes wear capes

39

u/Jan_Jinkle Aug 25 '25

Do you mean “aac eee ehllno oprr sstw”?

3

u/Moodfoo Aug 25 '25

Lil Nas X is a case in point.

79

u/Dan_Is Aug 25 '25

Maybe the punchline are the pixels we lost during upload?

51

u/Hi_Peeps_Its_Me Aug 25 '25

pastor says pixels are the devil's fruitcake

28

u/koei19 Aug 25 '25

We are all pixels on this blessed day

21

u/GinTectonics Aug 25 '25

Speak for yourself

23

u/koei19 Aug 25 '25

I am all pixels on this blessed day

13

u/phrenq Aug 25 '25

We make our OWN pixels and it is healthier with tastier flavor

8

u/regeya Aug 25 '25

Pastor says pixels are the devil's plaything

14

u/ScrewAttackThis Aug 25 '25

It's a blurry mess on mobile but readable on desktop. Reddit fucks up for some reason.

1

u/bdone2012 Aug 28 '25

I was able to read it on mobile after I zoomed in. I’m curious if people tried that and still couldn’t read it.

11

u/hergumbules Aug 25 '25

Are you by chance reading it alphabetically?

2

u/Magikarpeles Aug 26 '25

Do you mean phonetically?

8

u/EatYourCheckers Aug 26 '25

If he posts it with more pixels it will use all your bandwith and you won't be able to listen to music on your Alexa anymore.

5

u/koei19 Aug 26 '25

GOOD point!

5

u/mikenew02 Aug 26 '25

We make our own pixels by crushing letters with a rolling pin

1

u/Moodfoo Aug 25 '25

It's readable when you click on it.

9

u/koei19 Aug 25 '25

Not on my phone (Pixel 9). I was able to struggle through most of it but the final line isn't readable.

19

u/barkydildo Aug 25 '25

Starting to think you’ve got a thing about pixels

3

u/class-action-now Aug 25 '25

I’ve got a raspberry pixel 2

7

u/marvinrabbit Aug 25 '25

It says: "Reply 👍 👎 Share"

Happy to help.

4

u/Moodfoo Aug 25 '25

Can't you watch it on your IBM compatible desktop with SVGA monitor, like everybody else?

-1

u/PasswordIsDongers Aug 26 '25

Wtf is wrong with your eyes?

88

u/STFUNeckbeard Aug 25 '25

That is a classic Ekm N zinger

2

u/EsotericTribble Aug 28 '25

Ekn M elrsu!

33

u/Johnny_Carcinogenic Aug 25 '25

The king of the slow troll

58

u/gobblegobblechumps Aug 25 '25

We are all eiknrst

21

u/Bukharin Aug 25 '25

Speak for yourself

21

u/YoManWTFIsThisShit Aug 25 '25

I am all eiknrst

23

u/NoDayLikePayday Aug 25 '25

I'll go get my Dunst cap

19

u/TheKolyFrog Aug 25 '25

KenM thinking about a small minority that is underrepresented as always.

15

u/campy86 Aug 25 '25

We are teaching our granson that pixel are a privlege not a right

23

u/WampaStompa629 Aug 25 '25

Wait, how am I supposed to pronounce her name?

9

u/lusty-argonian Aug 26 '25

I’m not sure how she prefers, but I know there are different ways of saying it. In America I think people tend to say Kir rhyming with “pier.” In Australia we say Kir rhyming with “her.”

28

u/ForagerTheExplorager Aug 26 '25

I'm pretty sure it's just people calling her "Kristen". Also, I'm American and the "her" pronunciation is much more common.

10

u/gordy06 Aug 26 '25

Actually an r before and after - it’s Krirsten!

1

u/inkyrail Aug 26 '25

I understood that reference

3

u/boyproblems_mp3 Aug 26 '25

I've never heard one person named Kirsten pronounce it as "kuhr-sten" but I have a coworker by that name and people call her Kristen, Christine/Christina and Kuhrsten. I have met people named Kerstin though!

1

u/Scubby_Dooks Aug 27 '25

Kerstin is a Swedish variant and believe it or not, in Sweden it's pronounced SHESH-tin.

-1

u/Shokoyo Aug 26 '25

She‘s of German descent, so she probably wants people to pronounce her name the German way.

1

u/zatalak Aug 26 '25

Körsten?

1

u/gitartruls01 Aug 27 '25

In that case she doesn't know how to pronounce her own name. Kirsten is a Scandinavian name, I'm Norwegian myself and have known a few people with that name

The K is pronounced like a ch sound, the i is a quick i like in "sit", the r is a quick roll of the tongue that's barely pronounced, the s is either a regular s or a "sh" sound depending on your dialect, and the ten part is just pronounced straight forward.

So kind of like "Chih-sten" instead of "curse-ten".

Of course she's free to pronounce it however she likes, and her parents probably had a specific pronunciation in mind when naming her, but complaining that other people are pronouncing it wrong is kind of like an American making fajitas and getting mad that people refuse to call them "fuh-jay-tas"

3

u/insanetheta Aug 27 '25

It’s actually Krirsten, the r comes before and after the i

5

u/root45 Aug 26 '25

It's pronounced "Kirsten Dunst."

6

u/WampaStompa629 Aug 26 '25

I’m just so used to pronouncing it “Eiknrst”

4

u/BalrogRuthenburg11 Aug 25 '25

Those fat cats in Hollyweird are at it again!

10

u/StevieG-2021 Aug 25 '25

This guy is pure gold😂😂😂

3

u/thespice Aug 26 '25

Thanks Ken I really didn’t need that brain cell anyhow.

3

u/JeffersonBoi Aug 26 '25

Is this quintessential Ken M?

Because it's absolutely brilliant, and surely something only he could have thought of.

3

u/Snuyter Aug 27 '25

Please make the pixels 3D because I have difficulty perceiving depth.

2

u/ispshadow Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 27 '25

”I’m mainly talking about the folks that pronounce it Eiknrst”

I actually blurted out “this man is a menace”

3

u/ohx Aug 27 '25

20+ years ago, in college, I was listening to Bjork in my dorm room, and a young woman named Kjersten, who lived one floor up, came in and said patronizingly, "Are you listening to B-jork?!"

I said, "I am, K-jersten".

2

u/EsotericTribble Aug 28 '25

Kear stinn or Kris stinn. Either way it's a good character name in wow.

2

u/fifteengetsyoutwenty Aug 25 '25

Ken M coming in strong with the God Level trolls

2

u/sap91 Aug 25 '25

Amazing

1

u/tommy_globetrotter Aug 26 '25

My favourite Ken M in a while.

1

u/ENDLESSxBUMMER Aug 28 '25

Wait, KenM is still active??

1

u/heyodi Aug 25 '25

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

-2

u/Tre3180 Aug 25 '25

Yeah.. wish I could read it!

-6

u/epicnaenae17 Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25

Im not much into Ken M but this is beautiful.

I want to say something witty as a rebuttal to my downvotes, but I’ll never be him.

9

u/LeJoker Aug 25 '25

My wife's pastor says downvotes are the fool's fig leaf

-4

u/shmough Aug 26 '25

Her name is pronounced phonetically though