40 Times People Missed The Joke So Bad, They Embarrassed Themselves On The Internet (New Pics)
There's a fine line between laughing at a joke and becoming the joke. And while most of us cross it at one point or another, these unfortunate folks did it on the Internet, and their fails have been immortalized on the subreddit r/woooosh.
If you aren't familiar with the place, all you need to know is that it's an archive of screenshots, showing someone misinterpreting a joke. And the more ignorant a post is, the better it does within the community. I'm talking about people so clueless, they really think a guy mistakes a plane for a bus. Or that another one believes that sharks have toes. Just continue scrolling and you'll see what I'm talking about. When you're done, check out our earlier posts on the topic here and here.
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The subreddit has grown a lot since its creation on November 1, 2016. Now, it has over 890,000 members and is steadily approaching the 1 million mark. Not to mention all the similar subreddits, like r/woosh.
True, the Internet is so full of lies and "fake news", sometimes it's hard to tell if what you are looking at is sincere or not. But often, it is pretty obvious that the person who posted something was making a joke and others didn't get it. Maybe it was a bad joke – but it is still a joke nonetheless, and it is our job, as smart people who use the Internet, to recognize it. Or accept our mistake and move on if we don't.
Interestingly, humor is found in all cultures and at all ages, and in recent decades experimental psychology started viewing it as an essential, fundamental human behavior.
Historically, psychologists framed humor negatively, saying it demonstrated superiority, vulgarity, Freudian id conflict, or a defense mechanism to hide one’s true feelings.
But research on humor has evolved, viewing it as a character strength. Positive psychology, a field that is dedicated to what people do well, states that humor can be used to make others feel good, to gain intimacy, or to help buffer stress. Together with gratitude, hope, and spirituality, a sense of humor belongs to the set of strengths positive psychologists call transcendence; they help us connect to the world and provide meaning to life. Appreciation of humor correlates with other strengths, such as wisdom and love of learning.
So remember, it's perfectly normal if we don't get a joke or two. However, it's a whole other story if we don't find anything funny.
You go in the water and tell the shark to its face yourself.
Beside the point, I know but, how NEEDY is this photo? Get over yourself 'celeb' we're all worse off than you.
I got half way through removing my skin before reading your comment and finding out this is futile
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when ppl make a joke and other ppl think their smart so they come to ruin it
That's good and all, but what's step 2? Heat something in the microwave?
Step 3: Wait for the Sims 3 to load, and Step 4: Travel near the speed of light.
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It DOES work! My time is a half hour behind you guys. So... What are the next lottery numbers?!?
Why do the shadows make it look like the toes are touching the ground, but the arms are half an inch above it??
*goes into plank* *looks at clock* ooo the second hand stoped moving
What if you remove all of your skin first? Time isn't your biggest concern any longer. :D
Not sure which slowed down minute is the worst: one plank minute or one air brake bleed down test minute (stand on your brake for one minute).
Naaaaaah time FEELS slower because of the guy ripping all your skin off.
DING DING DING!!! Being aware of things in the moment increases the "now" differential! Ta Daaaaaa! it's like maaaaagic....
Here's the more interesing part: if you pose like this time will actually run slower for you than for someone standing up as you are closer to a gravity well (earth). So.. Yeah.
You'd be surprised how many Trump voters have the mind of a 13 year old. Trump himself is 74 but the 7 is silent.
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar..and the bartender says, "What is this? Some kind of lame joke?"
If I was 5’11 I’d be heartbroken (but I’m gay so why am I talking lmao)
It's Trump logic in nature preservation. "You have one nature reserve, you build a highway straight through it, and now you have two. I just doubled the number of nature reserves so I deserve a statue on Mount Rushmore."
How does the Italian army separate the boys from the men? With a crowbar.
It’s like burying a pitfall trap in Animal Crossing and then accidentally falling in it yourself.
Apple will soon be making their own electric cars. They will cost about $5000. Downside is that engine ($130 000), steering wheel ($150 000) and brakes ( $200 000) aren't included. After 2 years, the software will be updated slowing your car down to max 15 Mph and you'll be lucky if the battery lasts more than 5 miles.
They can name him Benadryl Cabbagepatch and everyone knows who he is without looking at the photo.
Fun fact the parents are in fact not cookiee they are dried up old sponges
Everyone sometimes don't get a joke, it's no big deal. But what bothers me most is how eager are some people on the internet to start insulting others.
What's rather depressing is not that people can't get a joke, it's that there are so many people who don't even realise it's a joke, that it's possible to make a funny comment that's not meant to be taken seriously. Its reached the point where satire/parody is being broadcast as news after only a few out of context shares. So the fact that it's a joke at all is lost. And insulting someone for either not getting the joke - or insulting someone by missing the point in the first place - is part of the "intelligence wars". It's all a bit distressing really. Who has some pictures of cute cats to make the world a better place?
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Re: #14, Is anyone else going to address the fact that the Christ the Redeemer statue is in Brazil, where they speak Portugese, not "Spanesh?" LOL!
without speech intonation its hard to get the joke. some of these are pretty lame.
People are so quick to jump on anyone's inaccuracies that they pay no mind to the fact it may have been intended as a joke. Everyone's just gotta be the first to comment when something isn't quite right "look at me, I'm so smart, I proved you wrong!" and in the end they look like the dumb one.
Curious how many of these instances of missing the joke are due to neuroatypical-ness. Maybe that's where a simple "woosh" would suffice, as Mnr vanderHeiden suggests.
Wow, that's kind of ableist, not gonna lie. Just because someone's not neurotypical doesn't mean they can't understand humour. And believe me, plenty of neurotypical people don't understand our jokes.
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A few of these might be from people with a more subtle sense of humor. Which kinda dampened my sense of superiority.
worse than not getting the joke is someone not getting a joke then making a joke on top of the original joke which is a less subtle and dumber. Ive heard this called "joking the joke" and it is a staple of dumbasses who think they are smart on Twitter
Hardly surprising that some many people are so dumb; Trump is In office! 🤦🏼♀️🥴😂
People who are correcting the damn joke might be so proud of themselves thinking they were genius were in truth, the joke was on them.
If "I think, therefore I am"... the how do so many of these people exist?
On tumblr someone once posted that 'I love you' in French is pronounced "permets-tu", which is a reference to the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Some people responded saying that it was actually je t'aime, and insulting the op. It still cracks me up to this day.
Why did the comments on this have so much bad language and comments that had to be hidden? Far worse than any of the other threads.
I missed quite a few, I'm 62 so not far behind you! But some I thought about and I didn't want to know.
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this is the effects of the virus. dont blame them for being FKN STUPID!
You know how you can be somewhere sitting still or moving around and all of a sudden, out of the blue you feel a breeze pass over you? It's not Mother Nature... It's posts on the Internet going over your head. Examine your brain.
Everyone sometimes don't get a joke, it's no big deal. But what bothers me most is how eager are some people on the internet to start insulting others.
What's rather depressing is not that people can't get a joke, it's that there are so many people who don't even realise it's a joke, that it's possible to make a funny comment that's not meant to be taken seriously. Its reached the point where satire/parody is being broadcast as news after only a few out of context shares. So the fact that it's a joke at all is lost. And insulting someone for either not getting the joke - or insulting someone by missing the point in the first place - is part of the "intelligence wars". It's all a bit distressing really. Who has some pictures of cute cats to make the world a better place?
Load More Replies... Re: #14, Is anyone else going to address the fact that the Christ the Redeemer statue is in Brazil, where they speak Portugese, not "Spanesh?" LOL!
without speech intonation its hard to get the joke. some of these are pretty lame.
People are so quick to jump on anyone's inaccuracies that they pay no mind to the fact it may have been intended as a joke. Everyone's just gotta be the first to comment when something isn't quite right "look at me, I'm so smart, I proved you wrong!" and in the end they look like the dumb one.
Curious how many of these instances of missing the joke are due to neuroatypical-ness. Maybe that's where a simple "woosh" would suffice, as Mnr vanderHeiden suggests.
Wow, that's kind of ableist, not gonna lie. Just because someone's not neurotypical doesn't mean they can't understand humour. And believe me, plenty of neurotypical people don't understand our jokes.
Load More Replies... A few of these might be from people with a more subtle sense of humor. Which kinda dampened my sense of superiority.
worse than not getting the joke is someone not getting a joke then making a joke on top of the original joke which is a less subtle and dumber. Ive heard this called "joking the joke" and it is a staple of dumbasses who think they are smart on Twitter
Hardly surprising that some many people are so dumb; Trump is In office! 🤦🏼♀️🥴😂
People who are correcting the damn joke might be so proud of themselves thinking they were genius were in truth, the joke was on them.
If "I think, therefore I am"... the how do so many of these people exist?
On tumblr someone once posted that 'I love you' in French is pronounced "permets-tu", which is a reference to the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Some people responded saying that it was actually je t'aime, and insulting the op. It still cracks me up to this day.
Why did the comments on this have so much bad language and comments that had to be hidden? Far worse than any of the other threads.
I missed quite a few, I'm 62 so not far behind you! But some I thought about and I didn't want to know.
Load More Replies... this is the effects of the virus. dont blame them for being FKN STUPID!
You know how you can be somewhere sitting still or moving around and all of a sudden, out of the blue you feel a breeze pass over you? It's not Mother Nature... It's posts on the Internet going over your head. Examine your brain.
