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Shitposting is just pretending to be stupid/racist/shitty for laughs/attention, right? Pretty low form of humor, if you ask me (no one did), but I’m also guessing a lot of shitposters aren’t just pretending.

I like a laugh as much as the next person, but we can’t sit around going “Why are people in this country so fucking stupid/racist/shitty?” while simultaneously elevating “acting” stupid to some high form of humor. You see how that’s counterproductive, right?

“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

*“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.” - Jason Garrett-Glaser*

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abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I don’t think it is that people are saying shitposting is a higher form of humor, but that it requires a level of trust that you know the people you’re shitposting with know you and know you’re joking. Lack of that leads to your second quote.

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- LengAwaits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That’s totally fair, and I agree with you. I probably shouldn’t have used the phrase “high form of humor”. I more meant “worthwhile form of humor”.
  
  I’m not the comedy police or anything, I just don’t want to end up here:
  
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Kira@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- LengAwaits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That’s me! Cringe and proud.
  
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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
We become who we pretend to be.

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- SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Great failure of Pauline (🤡🤡🤡🤡) discourse: actions don’t matter, only faith. Bitch nothing in your head matters, only what you do is consequential. Motherfucker destroyed Christianity before it even had a chance get started
  
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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
In the 90s, calling yourself a flat earther was a opportunity to have a fun and yet silly conversation about belief in science. During that time, both people KNEW that the earth was round. It was an exercise in creativity and played straight for laughs.

But somewhere in the 2000, some people didn’t realize the satire. They actually BELIEVED in it.

There’s a line of shitposting like with anything.

Shitposting is an art. It’s satire.

Then there’s actual shitty people who don’t realize that.

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- trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Shitposting is an art. It’s satire.
  
  I might get cooked for this but it’s just not.
  
  As a person who has been shit posting for at least a decade at this point, 99% of shit posting is either just saying something stupid on purpose or being a cunt to someone.
  
  “Shitposting is an art” is some shit a dweeb says online to make themselves look interesting because “I like to say dumb shit for attention” sounds a lot worse.
  
  Like sure, sometimes it’s funny to be a cunt to someone online (within reason) but let’s not pretend it’s something profound.
  
  Furthermore, the fact that it’s not something profound but just dumbass behavior done for laughs is the reason it can be misunderstood by honest dumbasses.
  
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  - thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I’ll defend shitposting here, because I think you’re simplifying it a bit too much.
    
    Shitposting is so much more than “saying dumb stuff for shits n’ giggles”. First of all, as with anything else, there are good and bad shitposts. A good shitpost usually contains a solid undertone of irony or sarcasm. An important part of the humour is not just in “being dumb” it’s about using a statement that is dumb in a very specific way in combination with a specific context in order to create something funny.
    
    Furthermore, a good shitpost uses exaggeration in a good way. The reader should preferably be “lured into” the post, not realising it’s a shitpost, before the notch is turned to 11 revealing that it was a shitpost. This adds an extra layer of humor and social commentary: The fact that the post at first seems believable forces you to recon with what kind of things you would actually believe someone could write. It also makes the target of the humor clear.
    
    Shitposting may not be high art, but calling it “just being a cunt to someone” is missing the mark. “Just being a cunt to someone” is exactly that, and it’s not shitposting.
    
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    trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    -fig 1 dweeb online tries to make it deeper than it is
    
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Isn’t this a group chat between friends though, so its not an open community where actual idiots are free to just join it.

I play a lot of games that include genocide, like Rimworld, Stellaris, Drox Operative 2, Factorio. That doesn’t mean I am actually going to go out and commit one.

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- Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  One, nah. Two, you missed the ex getting her privacy violated by OP sharing her texts in the chat.
  
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  - Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Tbh this whole thing lacks sufficient context. The guy is probably diminishing what he did, so may well be a bellend. But we don’t really have enough information.
    
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