It pains me, absolutely pains me, how many people out there are completely incapable of understanding satire.
I honestly don’t know how anyone could watch this video—actually, not even watch, just see the title and thumbnail for this video—and not realise that it’s an obvious spoof.
This also reinforces my belief that the quality of YouTube comments decreases proportionally to how long the video has been released.
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com Can I say that I really appreciate how you don’t fall back on memes in your videos like so many youtube editors seem to. So seeing multiple stacked memes in your thumbnail had me laughing even before I saw the video.
I’m guessing this commenter lives in that “culture” so it didn’t even register that you’re mocking the format.
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com i still remember how i was confused at first but after a few seconds i couldn’t stop laughing, especially after i noticed that license plate read justcars (i am starting laughing again)
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com Solution: assume they understood the video and are also joking, but failed to make their joke clear.
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com probably didn’t even watch the video before commenting. This is probably one of, if not THE first videos of yours i watched and i still understood the satire.
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com I actually looked the guy up on youtube and all his videos are about trains. Perhaps his comment was sarcasm? But then his Pinterest is all weird “based” crap from video games to war memes to salt bae?
Am I missing something?
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com Marking messages or content as jokes or satire isn’t uncommon on the internet for that very reason. It doesn’t make the content less funny, just makes it more explicit for people who might not get nuances for many reasons including cultural biases, bad English comprehension, or even neurodivergence in some cases.
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com hoho boy do you have egg on your face!
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com half the people you meet are below average
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com Reminds me of musician Andrew Huang who did a video series “from space” and then had to explain to people that no, he didn’t actually go to space lol
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com Damn. I’d almost think that the reply is itself a form of satire. But then again: I’ve been around long enough to know that people this thick exist.
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com Idk, thats a real gotcha there… if car no good, why car?
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Not sure if their comment is 🙄 or 🤣 …why not both?!@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com heh, maybe that comment is satire, at least, one can hope!
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“EXPLAIN THE JOKE TO ME!!1!"
Back when I used to post to YouTube, I learned to turn off comments; I see nothing much has changed.
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I see lots of “YouTubers” saying they never read comments after one or two days. For exactly that reason.
Lots of people just don’t get satire, sarcasm, or irony. There have been a few studies on the subject. Their brains are just not wired for it.
I suspect something similar is going on with giant truck owners and empathy! 😉
https://www.apa.org/monitor/may05/sarcasm
