A very large proportion of respondents took it straight. Apparently it was not funny to a lot of people.
So if a large number of people didn’t “get” your joke (presuming the joke isn’t something deeply technical like half the jokes, say, of XKCD), your joke just sucked. Or it wasn’t a joke until people reacted badly. One of the two.
Read.
The.
Thread.
You claimed to have read the evidence.
Read it.
Closely.
A very large proportion of respondents took it straight. Apparently it was not funny to a lot of people.
So if a large number of people didn’t “get” your joke (presuming the joke isn’t something deeply technical like half the jokes, say, of XKCD), your joke just sucked. Or it wasn’t a joke until people reacted badly. One of the two.