I call it bait entirely because of its audience: it’s posted to r/Conservatives.
Satire should be perceivable by its intended audience, such that the audience will interact and enjoy it on that meta-level. The expected audience of that subreddit isn’t looking for coded messages to unionize. Unless this post was made entirely for the enjoyment of progressive lurkers, which is not as reasonable to assume.
Except the audience wasn’t the conservatives there. It was us. It was people outside looking in. It was posted there so it could be shown elsewhere. Pretty clearly.
Way too many comments from people taking this at face value. This is almost formulaic bait.
Satire not bait.
I call it bait entirely because of its audience: it’s posted to r/Conservatives.
Satire should be perceivable by its intended audience, such that the audience will interact and enjoy it on that meta-level. The expected audience of that subreddit isn’t looking for coded messages to unionize. Unless this post was made entirely for the enjoyment of progressive lurkers, which is not as reasonable to assume.
Except the audience wasn’t the conservatives there. It was us. It was people outside looking in. It was posted there so it could be shown elsewhere. Pretty clearly.
Between LLM brain rot and COVID, we lost a lot of collective brain power in the last few years
This post is 5 years old
It would be interesting to count how many people didn’t understand the satire back then and compare to now
Now now, it might be the first time on the internet for some of these commenters, who have somehow stumbled on Lemmy as the first place they visited.
May god have mercy with their souls