this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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This guy made a joke and a bunch of Twitter users took it seriously. Context.
This guy made a joke that reads identically to the kinds of things people have been saying without a hint of humour since the ignoble days of Reader's Digest Condensed Books up to, yes, people saying almost exactly the same thing as he said here and people took him at face value. This is despite knowing that Poe's Law is a thing.
How terrible.
Generally if people don't "get" your joke, there's one of two things likely happening:
Leave it, Babe. ‘E’s not worth it!