Just like that

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I'm OOTL. What happened?
- drumpf announced tariffs on movies made in other countries
  
  All 5 of them? /j
  
  Virtually every single film that comes from Hollywood has international components: from filming locations, to physical address, to CGI production.
  This affects the entire industry.
  
  But does so much stuff even come (or ultimately become finalized) in (greater) Hollywood anymore? It seems in recent years I'm reading Georgia (US state) or Canada or some such far more often than (one of the big Hollywood companies).
  
  Can't someone make a stupid (and clearly declared) joke without people lecturing them about obvious stuff? 😫
  
  Poe's Law is that you can't be sarcastic or over-the-top on the internet without clearly signaling because there's no opinion so stupid it doesn't have adherents.
  
  That's why I added the tone-tag /j
  
  Welcome to the interwebs.
  I've seen "/s" and never saw "/j" before.
  
  /s stands for "sarcastic, /j for joking. Many people use /s for jokes, which, always bugs me a bit, since there's a difference.
  Here's the masterlist
  
  This reminds me of something Gail Collins wrote.
  She said she went to the store to buy salad dressing, and it ended up taking her twenty minutes to choose one bottle from an aisle full of different brands.
  When she got home she realized that she could have made salad dressing at home in five minutes.
  When shortcuts take longer than the thing they are supposed to replace, they become useless.
  
  I don't really see how this is comparable.
  The thing about tone-tags isn't being a shortcut, but rather mitigating the lack of tone transmitted via text.
  It's also for accessibility, to help neurodivergent people not get confused. Mixing up /s and /j is decremental to that cause.
  The "problem" goes away if enough people adopt it. /s has seen wider adoption, why not the rest of the tone-tags set?
  
  All 5 of them? /j
  It's a joke, we get it. But it still means: "not so many - just more than 5, that's why I added the /j".
  We know exactly what you meant: that most entertainment comes from the US. Esp. all us (slightly older) non-Americans feel it. But this trend has been in decline in recent years/decades. You made an outdated joke.
  
  One person didn't. I'm not a movie buff but I still have a feeling that HollyWood has a cultural quasi-monopoly.
  
  Homie, it was a joke on how much Hollywood has flooded the international movie scene. I don't get how you even get any american exceptionalism from my comment (also, I'm from Europe).
  
  Thanks, I didn't get the meme either.
  As @PunnyName said, you can't even define that unambiguously. Basically every movie is made in many places across the world.
  It hurts when a normal person spouts dumb shit with conviction, but when the US government does it...
  
  https://youtu.be/D3WfgHJzVq8

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