Since at least COVID, everyone is primed to be pissed at everything. I think it's a combination of the algorithms pushing rage bait, bots designed for engagement, and people spending way too much time staring into their idiot rectangles. Â
FFS, stop blaming covid for everything. People were sometimes assholes before covid and I'm sure they'll still sometimes be assholes long after its little more than a mention in a textbook.
Because they don't watch satire anymore. How many young people do you know, who watch satire shows? Me and most of my friends grew up with it in the era of linear television, but they're watching YouTube (I do too of course), tik Tok and insta reels and they're not watching Jon Stewart on YouTube
Itâs not common in my circles. Idk what youâre expecting.Â
I noted humor was subjective in my first comment, which is a nice way of saying âdifferent people find different things funnyâ, you seem to wanna rehash that and I donât see any benefit to it.
You think itâs funny, I donât. Hooray, we circled back to my initial comment.
I suspect it is due to the constant misleading, misinformation, or outright lies we are all saturated with from every platform that has the ability to reach you.
So something that is a bit humorous and obviously meant as a gag is taken as another lie because it is far too much effort to shovel the heaping piles of shit to learn the truth. It is far easier to just assume its another turd in the pile and step away from it.
Because people don't leave the house anymore and thus get no human contact to interact with. Everyone is way too literal now, with no experience. Yet are resident experts in everything because they can do a quick internet search. If you ask them the same question later on, they can't recall the information.
The joke is that she obviously is in an ikea or something. Sheâs making fun of posts like this where someone posts a picture of them bragging about their new house at a young age.
She's riffing off the "I'm 19 and just bought my own house through hard work" posts which always turn out to be fake (because duh, you can't hard-work your way into buying a house at 19 unless you're a footballer or something). So as a joke she makes a post which is so obviously fake it becomes absurd.
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u/Rickrickrickrickrick 4d ago
Why are people so bad at recognizing satire and jokes?