I love the idea of Joke Theft and shit on social media.
Someone makes a joke, and then someone else riffs on it. Or tells a similar joke. And people get super up in arms about the joke being "stolen".
Copyright and Clout just rotting their brain until they ignore the idea of culture
Dial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*
•I remember people being up in arms about big name comedians in the early oughts stealing much of their material from unknown comics, and I (as a kid) was one of those.
I still somewhat stand by that, mostly because of the imbalance of power, but most of stand-up comedy is in the delivery.
Is this joke theft about memes?
silverwizard
I saw a post today where someone made a stupid joke along the lines of "I saw a programmer just typing into vi instead of using " and then a giant list of tools.
And someone else posted a screenshot of another similar joke and was like "if you steal a joke it's polite to credit the source".
And I get that comedians are selling jokes - and telling someone else's jokes has different consequences. But come on, we aren't getting paid here.
And I think the fact that a lot of social media people *are* getting paid for it, mixed amongst people who aren't makes it all pretty gross and weird.
⛅ w chance of bears
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silverwizard
And like, maybe someone sees a joke, and would prefer a slightly better one and riffs.
you don't need to cite your Joke Sources
MLA Style Joke Citations