Joking be like “I’ll deliberately tell you what you know to be a life and we’ll both feel much better and closer” excuse me what ❓❓❓❓❓❓
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we feel closer because when it works we acquire common knowledge that we had enough shared context to understand the joke. it fails when they don’t get it and you feel more alien and distant
You can make fun of yourself for bombing though and then you're both sharing the experience of an awkward social situation