I'm completely baffled that these people couldn't recognize the troll after two responses. Even worse, they continued after the book post. I have to assume they were also going along with the troll for a laugh. They can not be this incredibly dense.
I don't get it. His trolling is pretty good but it's not exactly top notch comedy just to say "no you're wrong" a hundred times
The bottom image is pretty much why it's funny to me.
Apparently for dudes who've got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, "someone who's wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they're smarter than you" is their kryptonite.
Tons of people keep trying to convince him even though he's just saying "no you're wrong" over and over again.
The point is that when you're an adult and talking to a child, you can't talk to them like an adult. When you're dealing with someone without the faculties or desire to engage in informed debate, just save your breath.
Actually incredibly instructive to US readers at the moment given our horrific levels of education and high levels of misinformation and bias in media.
I like this take
His trolling is top notch, like the smoothness of a sharks skin.
It brings engagement to his page.
This is why "/s" was invented, no matter how silly it might seem.
Because human skulls are thick af.
It's funnier this way.
After a commentor stated that Planned Parenthood only uses a tiny bit of their budget for abortions, I linked this:
https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640
The number of lemmings who thought I was serious... jesus.
The fuck? This is completely messed up. I cannot agree with the bullshit "facts" stated in this article. 8 billion only netted 8 million terminated unborn lives? Almost $1000 per is definitely not "efficient."
Lemme know when you get below $100 per.
So far I feel like people here are a tad more gullible than reddit ever was. Didn't think it was possible.
I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.
Lack of nonverbal queues/tone and lack of context. It's easier to convey sarcasm through text if you're chatting with someone you know well. But online, you're often talking to near strangers, and you don't know if they're the type to find this kind of thing hilarious among other beliefs.
/s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.
Well that's a stupid little take, you must communicate in exhaustive detail while on the internet. It's in the rules!
I'm pretty sure that /s was outlawed by the internet elders in 2021.
Smuuth like your brane?
Even smuuther. I believe they're approaching the ideal frictionless surface.
Smuuuve, bruv!
This is an interrogation technique: make a presumptive statement, and try to be wrong about it. People will jump out of their skin to correct you, even when they're coached to not answer questions (but honestly it's really hard for people not to answer questions).
I'm convinced! Sharks are smooth
Smooth like brain
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Am I in Risa?
This proves two things:
- Internet arguments are pointless.
- Playing dumb on the Internet and refusing to admit the bit under any circumstances is hilarious.
You forgot one more point:
- Sharks are smooth.
Duh, everyone knows that.
I promise you, sharks are as smooth as freshly shaven legs of a plastic doll, or my name isn't Margot Elise Robbie.
So you admit it?
This made me laugh SO hard, I just... I don't know even why.
Because it is a comedic reflection of what is happening right now with certain people insisting misinformation is fact and true despite all evidence to the contrary. (Eg: trump won, vaccines kill, ETc.)
Captain Picard as he finally exits Branson's torture chamber: "Shark skin... is NOT smooth as hell!"
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I wish there was a way to automatically block any account that posts one of these super shitty tall images
Literally can't read it in Jerboa. Never loads in high enough resolution.
I'm on Jerboa and I can read it just fine.
Would you say it's not a smooth experience?
Same on Connect and Boost. They look like shit. Not to mention I think it's just annoying to have to click multiple times (to read it at all) then scroll and bunch before needing to hit back.
Edit: apparently I'm wrong on the more recent versions of Connect. Regardless, a weird content format that requires app developers to think about supporting is kind of annoying in general
I have a feeling that I've just lost several hundred braincells
Now your brain is smooth as a shark, as they say
Post of the century.
I just don't even know how they think this joke is suppose to work while explaining sharks skin is rough to the touch.
"Smooth looking lions that feel rough when you touch them are eating me."
Like, wtf man, why not explain that you cant talk while under water while getting eaten by sharks.
Yeah, but shark skin is like sandpaper. Especially rough when rubbed "against the grain"
I don't know what you're talking about buddy, shark skin is slick and smooth for hydrodynamic porpoises.
No you were probably feeling the Sandpaper Shark, which is actually a species of fish, not shark. Sharks are smooth.
Wow, this one is really good
You're mistaken. Shark skin is known for its smoothness when rubbed from any angle.
Everyone knows that sharks are the fastest animals on the earth
Their skin is so smooth that there's no friction between them and water
Source: i'm an animal boiologist
Dude's brain is smooth from any direction.
I read that whole thing waiting for a real punchline.... shame on me I guess.
It's well-known that people who post to Tumblr are bigots.
Twitter people are dumb, Tumblr people straight up suffer from dysfunctional autism. How can you not recognize the trolling in the screenshot?
I'm not sure what you mean by "dysfunctional autism" exactly, but this is a known trait of many autistic people. They often fail to pick up on social cues that most other people take for granted. It's just because their brain works differently, they tend to take people at face value. And unlike what some have professed to believe here, their desire to explain or correct you does not come from a desire to "be the smartest person in the room", but rather it's their way of helping. They like to have accurate information, so they assume others do too. So yes, combine these two traits with a person who like to screw with them and you get conversations like this, which unfortunately amounts to a pretty nasty form of teasing.
Because apparently for dudes who've got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, "someone who's wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they're smarter than you" is their kryptonite. You can play dumb on almost any subject and their ego, their staunch belief that the masses are so far below them, will blind them to the fact that you're just fucking with them, and as long as you don't admit you're fucking with them or acknowledge that there's anything Off about what you're saying, they won't be able to stop themselves trying to get you to Respect Their Authority, and they won't be able to see that will literally never happen.
