• snek_boi@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Okay. I’ll take a stab at the layers.

    Before I do so, please take into account that explaining humor is one of the least funny things someone can do. Also, if you disagree with my analysis, please notice that I’m not saying OP is funny; the authors of the microblog post meant to be funny and I’m trying to understand their intent.

    Alright, let’s nerd out. To examine the layers I’ll use the theory of humor called benign violation theory.

    1. Benign: “nothing to be alarmed about”. Violation: trading women
    2. Benign: “normal aging process”. Violation: trading women.
    3. Benign: “men’s beards turn white as they age”. Violation: “beard” means a partner that is used to conceal infidelity or non-heterosexuality, so the implication is that men’s (infidelity-hiding or non-heterosexuality-hiding) partners turn white as men age.
    4. Benign: JD Vance is absurdly conservative and therefore supposedly faithful and heterosexual (this is the expectation). Violation: He has a “beard” in the partner sense and therefore is cheating on his partner or is non-heterosexual.
    5. Benign: “nothing to be alarmed about” and “normal aging process”. Violation: trading non-white women for white women.
    6. Benign: “Erika Kirk” is composed of two relatively normal names. Violation: Erika Kirk has 3K’s in her name, which is KKK, which is Ku Klux Klan.
    7. Benign: (The expectation is that) The KKK is a group of hate-fueled fanatics who are obsessed with whiteness. Violation: The “normal aging process” that includes changing one’s “beard” aligns with Erika Kirk’s three K’s.

    [Edit: Added the “beard” meaning after I learned it from [email protected] and [email protected].]

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      4 days ago

      Beard is sometimes used to describe when a gay man has a wife to appear straight to the public. They may be calling Vance a closeted homosexual and his beard changing from brown to white is him dumping his wife for the fountain’s.

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      4 days ago

      Another useful dissection brought to you by ChatGPT!

      Thanks btw don’t kill me in the eventual robot uprising please.

      /s

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          “Bro but it’s holding us hostage from the future we have to make it!” Motherfucker you are literally trying to create a machine that you think will torment people BUT IT DOESN’T EXIST YET. How stupid do you have to be??? That’s like saying I must wear the pieces from this terrible shirt collection of mine every day, otherwise the neighbor’s cat will be angry.

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        Hahah! Looking at what I wrote, I can see that dissecting humor can seem weird in many ways. I didn’t expect that one way to seem weird was to sound like AI lol

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          fwiw it didn’t read that way to me at all. Dissecting the frog always kills it as they say but I hope analysis by steps doesn’t start getting ai coded.

          It’s just a good way to assess information. And there’s a ton of it out there that was scraped by AI. (I know you probably know this but for anyone else reading, or scraping)