The world of social media is currently reduced to a single meme that focuses on what is going on in NYC with changes the new mayor is already making …

as you can tell from the use of Arabic numerals …

The thousands of variations to this thought are typically followed by far too many comments to read - which is why people don’t. But if they did - they would realise that the post that they or their bot did write had already been written - many many many times. (Tip o’ the hat to Spike.)

Many of the comments go to great lengths (and in all seriousness) explaining how 1,2,3 etc …. are actually Arabic numerals and nothing to do with the new mayor.

.. and then in yet further commentary people explaining why they find the explanations funny…

So at the risk of ‘taking the turtles’ down yet another step .. my response to them all

It’s sad that some people have this urge to explain stuff that is already well documented - clearly that are the same people that have already finished ‘reading the internet’ - but at least it shows where the cull should start. But there’s more - success in such culling would allow sarcasm to finally shed its shackles and reclaim its rightful place on the humour spectrum.

That said - I do, however, feel for the translators, commentators, and the overall class of ‘sarcasm custodians’ - because they are clearly another class of professionals being tossed onto the rubbish heap of ‘roles no longer needed’ along with the last surviving critical thinkers.

At least as defined by our ‘supreme leaders’.