• mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Fake text messages are like the laugh track of the internet. There are plenty of absurd things that actually happen on the Internet so having to create fake situations cheapens authentically funny situations.

    Sites like 9gag are filled with these things because they are low effort ways to make an unfunny joke plausibly funny.

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      1 year ago

      Here’s the thing, how are you ever going to prove that a message is real or not? Maybe there’s a way to do it, but honestly that’s more effort than anyone is going to go through.

      So you land at 2 situations, either you don’t post any messages ever, or stop complaining about it being fake in the comments because some people might find it entertaining, regardless of whether it’s real or not.