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corobo on Oct 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

Don't make joke a subcategory of clickbait, hacker news. come on now

exolymph on Oct 22, 2020 [–]

If your "joke" is structured to sound sincere and be misleading, it's clickbait.

corobo on Oct 23, 2020 | [–]

If your joke is structured to sound sincere and be misleading it's called a joke... that's literally what a joke is

exolymph on Oct 23, 2020 | | [–]

Uh, no, many jokes count on the audience being in on it.

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