301: Limerick
| Limerick |
 Title text: Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible) |
Explanation
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The title text refers to the notoriously awful comments on YouTube.
In both cases, Randall is invoking Poe's Law. Both sites have become so full of extremes that you can no longer mock the extremists without looking like a sincere extremist yourself.
Transcript
- [Cueball sitting at computer, typing.]
- Cueball: I used to find slashdot delightful,
- Cueball: but my feelings of late are more spiteful;
- Cueball: my comments sarcastic
- Cueball: the iconoclastic
- Cueball: keep modding to plus five (Insightful).
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Wow, I just stumbled across this comic via the "Random" button, and I realized that I haven't looked at Slashdot in over a year... Feels good to be free! Now back to obsessively reloading Reddit... 173.245.55.210 20:40, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Limericks are not anapestic trimeter, the meter in most limericks (including this one) is an amphibrach. 141.101.104.23 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
The problem is that there's no fake comment you could add to YouTube that's so stupid it couldn't have been seriously posted by one of the common members there. — Kazvorpal (talk) 22:48, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
I found someone who posted to every song in an album some variation of "Is this music?" Two of the songs were spoken word, and one was entirely instrumental, but the first song is a relatively normal punk song. I am almost completely sure they were joking. (The album is Made in a Day by Maki Yamazaki on thevoidsings youtube channel).162.158.154.73 01:25, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
