I'm patiently composing some baby shoes themed lyrics to mister brightside, and in 2 or 3 more hours you're gonna get FUCKIN REPLIED TO mister! Because that's an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SONG, TO ALL STAR.
When you just BAREly get a joke, it's tempting to explain it to the people out there who don't get it at all. I guess the idea is that you're making yourself a comedy bodhisattva. I don't think this much hurts the original joke, as long as they don't promote their version as their own work.
To me, the people who are doing this are almost not really even part of the audience. I don't want to yell at them about it. It's like how Omar from the Wire made a point of pride about never turning his gun on anyone who wattn't in The Game.
This is really funny because sometimes people will reply to a joke that you post and do like a whole thread analyzing why it’s funny but that makes it not funny because brevity is the soul of wit and explaining a joke in minute detail usually makes it not funny.
It's funny that on social media websites (such as Twitter and now BlueSky), many people, but not all, will reply to a joke that is succinct and concise with an explanation or more drawn out version of a joke as a way to participate or engage with the content. 🤓
What's funny about this meme is the way it uses a picture to paint a thousand words about how insufferable bores try to slipstream more entertaining people and appropriate their fun internet presences for themselves
Love too log on to my favorite social media app and post a joke only to find someone has repeated *checks notes* the exact same joke in my replies, written in a way that is both too long and less funny
The "*checks notes*" part is such a good touch because it really does mean nothing anymore. Nothing is unexpected or absurd enough so that the commentary on it deserves a stupid, passive aggressive, addition.
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the joke gets ressponded in more words, phrases in a more prolific manner, but in a lesser amount of laugh-inducing components