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Darcranium lemmy.world Darcranium@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-04
#52 · Quote Reply

This is why in many native cultures they stay away from being sarcastic. They've learned that it can be harmful to a society and they have the empathy to not want to make certain people who are out of the loop feel dumb

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ParlimentOfDoom piefed.zip ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-09-26
#53 · Quote Reply

Me in 2015 reddit in the_Donald Subreddit thought they were shitposting sarcasm but no. It was a coordinated Russian intelligence campaign to fuck with retarded voters

It started that way. Then a large contingent of shit stains showed up not realizing it was a joke and agreed with everything.

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ParlimentOfDoom piefed.zip ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-09-26
#54 · Quote Reply

I think birds aren't real is starting to be taken seriously, too.

More like the techbros took inspiration...

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ParlimentOfDoom piefed.zip ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-09-26
#55 · Quote Reply

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Their worldview is heavily built around Christian magic nonsense: The sky is a dome (firmament). Gravity doesn't exists, it's just buoyancy. They probably assume wind currents change and blow the cold off the icewall surrounding the world edge...

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noobface lemmy.world noobface@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-01
#56 · Quote Reply

i mean i know two people who got sucked into WoW for years, to the point it became a major problem in their lives. they're both redhats so i just figured it was a small sample size thing.

barrens chat was a psyop

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Jarix lemmy.world Jarix@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#57 · Quote Reply

Same here. I learned about Flat Earthers, and assumed they were sarcastic, like Birds aren't Real. Took me two years of occasionally coming across their shit to realize they were serious. I was flabbergasted. That's when I started to understand how stupid people can be. They can be all the stupid, and in unsettling numbers.

Obligatory George Carlin

The average person

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SGforce lemmy.ca SGforce@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-01
#58 · Quote Reply

It started that way. Then a large contingent of shit stains showed up not realizing it was a joke and agreed with everything.

There was a moderator coup. Reddit admins deliberately flipped it and immediately started banning anyone going "wait...you're serious?"

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JoeBigelow lemmy.ca JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-06
#59 · Quote Reply

Same here. I learned about Flat Earthers, and assumed they were sarcastic, like Birds aren't Real. Took me two years of occasionally coming across their shit to realize they were serious. I was flabbergasted. That's when I started to understand how stupid people can be. They can be all the stupid, and in unsettling numbers.

Yea yea birds aren't real we all know that. But have you ever gotten really close to a bird? Like close enough to tell if it has dimension? NO. OBVIOUSLY BIRDS ARE FLAT!

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TootSweet lemmy.world TootSweet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
#60 · Quote Reply

Anon surely meant fisheye lens

Took me longer than I care to admit to figure that out. Heh.

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MeowerMisfit817 lemmy.world MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-27
#61 · (edited) Quote Reply

Me in 2023 learning about tankies through Lemmy.

Me learning about tankies with my father (who isn't even United-Statian (I refuse to call them Americans, America is an continent.))

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snugglesthefalse sh.itjust.works snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-18
#62 · Quote Reply

This is why in many native cultures they stay away from being sarcastic. They've learned that it can be harmful to a society and they have the empathy to not want to make certain people who are out of the loop feel dumb

Wdym by native cultures? I'm from a native culture that is known for our sarcasm in humour, not sure if you mean something else by that.

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vithigar lemmy.ca vithigar@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-26
#63 · Quote Reply

Considering trends are started by a single dedicated schizo I'd say not hard. I'm pretty sure one very dedicated person made fit and beyond believe onions boosted test.

...am I having a stroke? What does that last sentence mean?

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Fizz lemmy.nz Fizz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-12
#64 · Quote Reply

...am I having a stroke? What does that last sentence mean?

Drinking raw onion juice boosts testosterone production apparently*

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Bonsoir lemmy.ca Bonsoir@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-13
#65 · Quote Reply

I think birds aren't real is starting to be taken seriously, too.

I think the birds aren't real people have it all wrong.
Given the level of technology needed to make anything fly, how are we supposed to believe in the original organic "birds" to begin with?
Clearly it's just a distraction from the real harsh truth.

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oce 🐆 jlai.lu oce@jlai.lu
Joined: 2023-07-07
#66 · Quote Reply

Me learning about tankies with my father (who isn't even United-Statian (I refuse to call them Americans, America is an continent.))

You're going to confuse Americans who are taught America is two different continents: North and South (difference with the Latin culture).

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TubularTittyFrog lemmy.world TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-23
#67 · Quote Reply

There's a subreddit called TrumpZone or something like that that I joined because of all the over the top bootlicking memes. It took a few days before I realized that the memes weren't being posted ironically and the members really were batshit crazy.

have you tried being batshit crazy though?

it's a lot of fun, as you may have briefly noticed. a lot more fun than being normie

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TubularTittyFrog lemmy.world TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-23
#68 · (edited) Quote Reply

Wdym by native cultures? I'm from a native culture that is known for our sarcasm in humour, not sure if you mean something else by that.

they mean they make up random shit on the internet because it makes them feel superior to whitey. likely being whitey themselves, but not like those other whiteys who are so sarcastic and cultural destructive, no sir.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#69 · Quote Reply

I think the birds aren't real people have it all wrong. Given the level of technology needed to make anything fly, how are we supposed to believe in the original organic "birds" to begin with? Clearly it's just a distraction from the real harsh truth.

By Proxy: Brains aren't real

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starik lemmy.today starik@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-06-19
#70 · (edited) Quote Reply

...am I having a stroke? What does that last sentence mean?

Are your serious or have you never drawn fit from of root? Lol

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captainlezbian lemmy.world captainlezbian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#71 · Quote Reply

motion to make all dumb blonde jokes into dumb nazi jokes

I'd ask what the difference is, but nazis are so rarely as blond as they'd like

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LiarAmongAll lemmy.zip LiarAmongAll@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-10-20
#72 · Quote Reply

I imagine it is like moving a lamp over a table. Closer parts have summer and further away parts have winter.

Which is pretty funny because in the northern hemisphere during January, the sun is closest to us. It's our axial tilt that drives the winter, being tilted further away in winter.

But God forbid they learn some actual fucking science 😂

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BlaestEgnen feddit.dk BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk
Joined: 2026-07-09
#73 · Quote Reply

Me learning about tankies with my father (who isn't even United-Statian (I refuse to call them Americans, America is an continent.))

Citizens of USA are Americans, but likewise are citizens of Mexico, Honduras and Paraguay

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wolframhydroxide sh.itjust.works wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-25
#74 · Quote Reply

You're going to confuse Americans who are taught America is two different continents: North and South (difference with the Latin culture).

Since you appear to be from France, I will just point out the hilarious hypocrisy and ignorance of suggesting that North and South America, which are separated by no less than three different tectonic plate boundaries, are the same continent, while living in "Europe", which hasn't been tectonically separated from "Asia" for hundreds of millions of years.

You should reflect on that.

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QueenHawlSera sh.itjust.works QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-05
#75 · Quote Reply

There's a subreddit called TrumpZone or something like that that I joined because of all the over the top bootlicking memes. It took a few days before I realized that the memes weren't being posted ironically and the members really were batshit crazy.

Didn't r/TheDonald start out ironic and then slowly mutate into being unironic.

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QueenHawlSera sh.itjust.works QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-05
#76 · Quote Reply

Pretty much my trajectory for making Nazi jokes. Used to be fun and edgy when I was younger, but once I found out there were actual Nazis these days, it was horrifying. I can see why people stick to Roman jokes

Yeaaaah I have a similar story. It's all fun and games until you realize the other person actually does want to kill jews.

The amount of jews I want to unironically kill is zero.

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oce 🐆 jlai.lu oce@jlai.lu
Joined: 2023-07-07
#77 · Quote Reply

Since you appear to be from France, I will just point out the hilarious hypocrisy and ignorance of suggesting that North and South America, which are separated by no less than three different tectonic plate boundaries, are the same continent, while living in "Europe", which hasn't been tectonically separated from "Asia" for hundreds of millions of years. You should reflect on that.

Here it is. As I hinted above, conventional continent boundaries are cultural, not scientific.
Have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

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wolframhydroxide sh.itjust.works wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-25
#78 · (edited) Quote Reply

Here it is. As I hinted above, conventional continent boundaries are cultural, not scientific. Have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

Indeed, though if you actually look at the page for "Europe", you'll see that nobody can even agree on where the "cultural" boundary is anymore, because it's a spectrum. You posted your stupendously condescending comment as if there's a "right" way to classify continents, and the poor, uneducated citizens of the USA would be so confused at hearing your objectively-correct stance. The way you said it was offensively patronising, and "Europe" has nowhere to talk, because Europe doesn't rightfully exist in any consistently-delineated way, because the "cultural" nature of "Europe" isn't some homogeneous block, and the only thing those cultural spectra can agree on is that they don't agree on the delineation. Anyone using the word "continent" nowadays is wrong, because it's a dated, arbitrary moniker which serves only to continue Eurocentric cultural hegemony and try to divide humanity. Gatekeeping it and using it as a way to mock hundreds of millions of people, though? That's just weird

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tomenzgg midwest.social tomenzgg@midwest.social
Joined: 2025-01-19
#79 · Quote Reply

Yeah, this doesn't excuse anything, but as a millennial growing up there was this whole trend of "dark humor" and "anti-jokes." Basically the more fucked up and wrong something was, the funnier it was supposed to be. That doesn't make it okay, but we were just stupid teenagers. You could say we shoulda known better, but at the time that was just the trend. Like skibidi toilet and other brainrot...

I think that's a huge source of disconnect with Gen Z. I don't think they ever had a concept of dark humor.

I mean, I dunno; I think you're right in the sense that Gen. Z doesn't do edgy humor nearly as much but they are still known for irony poisoning and I think you get similar outcomes, just (now) with the veneer of there being, really, a truth to what you're saying.

"Helen Keller didn't really do all that" is squarely a Gen. Z "joke" with just as awful implications as dark humor.

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oce 🐆 jlai.lu oce@jlai.lu
Joined: 2023-07-07
#80 · (edited) Quote Reply

Indeed, though if you actually look at the page for "Europe", you'll see that nobody can even agree on where the "cultural" boundary is anymore, because it's a spectrum. You posted your stupendously condescending comment as if there's a "right" way to classify continents, and the poor, uneducated citizens of the USA would be so confused at hearing your objectively-correct stance. The way you sa...

You're are over interpreting a lot. I was simply expecting some American to come on and say America is two continents because that's what you are taught, just as Latin culture people are taught it's one continent. I saw this play before. I'm not saying one is better than the other. By the way, it's not a Europe thing, UK people are told the same as North Americans, it's probably its origin.
You could try asking for explanations before jumping to the agressive interpretation.

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zqps sh.itjust.works zqps@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-10-14
#81 · Quote Reply

Didn't r/TheDonald start out ironic and then slowly mutate into being unironic.

Same for r/MURICA. Sad case, it used to be really funny.

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zqps sh.itjust.works zqps@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-10-14
#82 · Quote Reply

Same here. I learned about Flat Earthers, and assumed they were sarcastic, like Birds aren't Real. Took me two years of occasionally coming across their shit to realize they were serious. I was flabbergasted. That's when I started to understand how stupid people can be. They can be all the stupid, and in unsettling numbers.

It's not just stupidity.

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#83 · Quote Reply

I think that's a huge source of disconnect with Gen Z. I don't think they ever had a concept of dark humor. I mean, I dunno; I think you're right in the sense that Gen. Z doesn't do edgy humor nearly as much but they are still known for irony poisoning and I think you get similar outcomes, just (now) with the veneer of there being, really, a truth to what you're saying. "Helen Keller didn't rea...

I mean I'll fully admit that I don't know the intricacies of Gen Z humor. I've heard some of it, and there's a lot about it that I don't understand. It can be amusing with the sheer volume of absurdism that it contains. I used to despair over "not getting the joke" until I realized that in many cases, there's nothing to get. It's just absurdist buffoonery channeled into shitpost-tier memes.

Maybe they do have elements of dark humor that I haven't picked up on, but if so it's very different from millennial dark humor. A lot of the shit we used to joke about would not fly these days, and in many cases it's with good reason. You'd be labeled a psycho if you tried.

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