• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    edit-2
    4 hours ago

    And then everyone stood up and clapped.

    Guys, you can slap text over anyone’s portrait and say they did literally anything; it doesn’t make it true.


    Edit: Oh, Lemmy does not like being told that they can’t be trusted to have basic media literacy.

        • Zikeji@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          3 hours ago

          You’ll be tagged as the one who thought a shitpost was serious, got corrected, and doubled down.

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 hours ago

            You’ll be tagged as the one who thought a shitpost was serious

            Please do tag me; tag me as the one who didn’t think a shitpost was serious but that Lemmy users collectively cannot be trusted to tell the difference.

            • meta4@retrolemmy.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              21
              ·
              edit-2
              2 hours ago

              YOU are the one that cannot tell the difference! You seem to not know where you are.

              You: Don’t believe it! It’s a shitpost!

              Everyone: Haha Yeah it’s a shitpost. That’s… Why we’re here.

              You: No, you don’t get it! It’s not real!

              Everyone: Yeah, we know.

              You: I’m the only one who knew!!

              🥈heres your award

            • chloroken@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              27
              ·
              edit-2
              4 hours ago

              We all knew this was fake, you were just the only one dumb enough to think others believed it. Ironic.

              • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                4 hours ago

                You know what, I’ll just copy–paste this here, although I’ve never actually hoarded examples of all the times Lemmy was essentially as dumb as Reddit:

                Several weeks ago, there was this post in a news community to a BBC News article. It was a real article; no tricks, correct headline. But the link was a 404. When I found it, it was upvoted about 20–0. I downvoted it as obviously nonfunctional but also commented remarking that it’s a 404 and giving the OP the correct link. When I came back to that post a couple hours later hoping to upvote a fixed link, the link was unchanged, it was upvoted 50–1 (my downvote), and it had one comment (mine) upvoted 1–0. (Edit: I checked, to preemptively clarify, that this wasn’t a “me” problem.)

                Lemmy users collectively have the media literacy of a housefly.

                • chloroken@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  15
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  4 hours ago

                  In this thread, you’re the one we’re giggling at because you think you’re so clever, yet simultaneously fail to realize that everyone knows this shit is fake. Nobody cares about your previous interactions, just how dumb and smarmy you look here.

    • voodooattack@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      3 hours ago

      I see your point, but the people you’re speaking of (ones who don’t check the community name before taking this for granted) are probably not going to be reading these comments either, they’re most likely 400 metric screen-spans away by now and pausing a couple milliseconds as they try to parse a post about jeans made out of beans.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        3 hours ago

        but the people you’re speaking of (ones who don’t check the community name before taking this for granted) are probably not going to be reading these comments either

        Genuinely fair, well-considered point. I appreciate it and will consider it more heavily the next time I see something like this.

    • restingOface@quokk.au
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Guys, you can slap text over anyone’s portrait

      Not only “anyone’s portrait”, this one is giving off AI vibes. Slopposts are easier and easier to generate nowadays.