• mika_mika@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I need to start taking benzodiazepines or blood pressure meds. Fake shit getting engagement online boils my blood. I can’t believe people are this stupid. A reasonable person would go “that never happened” and the post should die into obscurity. But instead this. And then there’s the degenerates willing to defend it “nothing ever happens”, as a retort which makes me angrier, because literally 99% of this stuff really never happens.

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      3 days ago

      I saw this posted a few years ago and apparently the stickers were designed and placed there by pranksters. Which, you know, should have been pretty obvious to everyone to begin with.

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      If this was in a c/funny or a c/microblog community it’d be a little scammy. But in this comm I actually think it’s too good to be a shitpost. What has become of the low-effort garbo we used to know and love?

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        In this case, and many others, when the humor is in part derived from the absurdity of such an event occurring. Yes, authentic and genuine has much more value.

        I can suspend disbelief for a standup comedian or comedy flick. Because they are isolated from reality unlike social media which is not explicit in that it’s woven in reality.

        For me this would be hilarious if it actually occurred, because of the fact that it did. Not because spreading ass cheeks is peak humor that I need to suspend disbelief to appreciate it.

        If it helps, I also can’t really appreciate wrestling as entertainment.