I am amused to see a bunch of posts saying “tag 12 followers…” in my social sphere, because
Like,
The 12 is a lie. The OP that I got the meme from said “20”. It just so happens that, when I wrote my entry, I only thought of 12 people to tag off the top of my head.
Then I thought “Should I look at my follower list? Why? Because a meme told me to? HA! I am an independent black woman and I don’t need no meme tellin me what to do.” And I snapped my fingers three times to level up my inner goddess.
And now there are a bunch of people using something that I pulled out of my arse as if it had been declared by G-d Himself. I’m no long sure whether my name is ‘Alexander Hamilton’ or ‘Moses’.
…are you okay? The level of superiority oozing off this post is really out of character for you.
I’m not sure whether the problem is with the sender or the receiver, but clearly at least one of us is fucked up right now.
Oh nooooo. I’m not sure whether this means I should have just avoided the joke to begin with, or been more ridiculously over-the-top to make sure it would be interpreted as a joke. It’s very distressing to learn that I landed in the uncanny valley of unironic superiority. Should I just delete this?
“I’m not sure whether this means I should have just avoided the joke to begin with, or been more ridiculously over-the-top to make sure it would be interpreted as a joke.”
Hmm. Assessing it from that viewpoint, I think the main problem is that you didn’t use your “not serious” tag. I mean, if we start from the assumption that it’s not going to have that tag, you could maybe have compensated by adding more over-the-top-ness, but as I understand it “making sure it’s 100% clear a jokingly mean post was not genuinely mean, in case it turns out to be insufficiently over-the-top on its own” is that tag’s main purpose (or one of its main purposes, anyway).
“Should I just delete this?”
I’m not sure how much that would accomplish? I think if I were you, I would edit the post’s tags to add the “not serious” tag and a commentary tag explaining that the “not serious” tag was originally missing. That would probably minimise both distress and confusion among people catching up later.
(I just remembered that in the tags of your reply, you referred to confusion as one of the reactions people might have to the OP. When I say “and confusion”, I’m referring to the possibility of latecomers finding taken-seriously reblogs of an OP that either A: doesn’t exist, or B: said explicitly in its tags that it was joking, depending on which of those you did.)
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