The specific phrasing we use is designed to be humorous, to frame things as a joke, to set things up in a dry manner and then deliver a punchline. The framing is everything.
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If some survey intern called me and asked "Did this person say X" I'd say, "How the heck am I supposed to know, ya cheese bag?"
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And 3 or 4 of those 5 pieces are deliberate exaggerations of things those people actually believe. So framed in that way it'd definitely be believable.
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Anyway, the survey methods aren't super clear here but based on this they just called random yahoos and asked if they believed some things semi-related to our stories.pic.twitter.com/YJBZVIyqu1
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This is totally different from how people actually engage with our stories, where the over-the-top content on the site and social feeds, the site name, our freakin' tagline, a goofy photoshop, are pretty darn big clues that it's satire.
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Do people get fooled? Sure, sometimes. But this survey is a horrible way to prove that.
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This is the perfect meme for this.
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Satire does not make sense to the stupid.
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It does in this case. They just hate to be mocked.
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