50 Times People Posted Something So Hilariously Dumb, It Had To Be Shared Further (New Pics)
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X, the platform that was once Twitter, is the ideal playground for verbal humor. Back when it allowed only 140 characters per post, people had to be really precise with their jokes. Every word counted. Now there are double the characters and double the opportunity for funny stories.
The Instagram account Really Dumb Tweets finds the best jokes and funny posts on the platform. Even their bio claims that they're "posting the funniest tweets you'll ever read." The page also has a huge following – their current follower count is at 1.6 million. So scroll through these humorous gems and upvote your favorite ones!
And to know more about what makes a funny tweet successful, read our interview with comedic writer, actor and director Emma Tattenbaum-Fine. She's also the author of the collection of essays Trash Mermaid, and Bored Panda asked her what makes a successful tweet and what to avoid when trying to be funny on X (Twitter).
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In 2019 Emma Tattenbaum-Fine wrote a piece for Gold Comedy titled "How To Be Funny On Twitter." In it, she called being funny on Twitter "an art." She also commented on the brevity the platform requires.
"It is tough to squeeze your genius into 280 characters, but it's worth it," she wrote in the article. "No matter what, it's great practice for concise, show-don't-tell writing, and a perfect place to test out your jokes."
In many cases, there is a formula between funny tweets. Back then Emma covered the comedy devices that show up in many of the successful posts on X (Twitter) – the "me, an intellectual," "you had one job," "don't @ me," "TED talk time" tweets and many more.
But of course, a successful tweet is only measured by the number of people it reaches. If the post got popular only among your friends and family, can you really call it a success? So we asked Emma Tannenbaum-Fine whether certain elements can help a funny tweet gain traction.
Emma says that a good, funny tweet should have similar characteristics to a good joke. "A successful, funny tweet, like a good joke, sets up an expectation and then breaks it with a surprise," she tells Bored Panda.
The comedy writer has some advice for people who want their tweets to get a little bit of traction. It needs three main elements: to relate to current events, be relevant to a wide audience, and give an authentic opinion.
"A good tweet, in particular, is probably going to be something topical that is top of mind for everyone, that then finishes with a fresh take, giving the reader something clever they hadn't considered before that is infused with a clear point of view.
Even if so, it's none of her business. Also, didn't Jesus himself say not to judge people? I don't understand why so many Christians do this when it literally says bot to in the bible.
Granted, not all jokes on X (Twitter) are winners. Some inevitably end up being real duds. Emma says that oftentimes people forget to infuse their tweets with a fresh take.
"When I go back and read, or randomly encounter, cringey things my friends and I said online ten or maybe twelve years ago, the common pitfall is: they tend to be just observations or complaints or half-baked thoughts," Emma admits.
"There's nothing terrible about that, but it's not funny if it's missing that element of surprise and a clear, original point of view."
The problem is that people realised how important it is to be able to do things like that and still bristle at the idea to pay essential workers better while reducing their hours. All those 'low skill' jobs are still essential and still earn a ton of money for the companies, but somehow people still claim that the company deserves that money more than the workers who earned it because their labour is 'unskilled'. It's ridiculous. People should be paid accordingly and in relation to the worth their work generates and in relation to how much we need that work to be done. Wanting to pay for skills only is nothing but the excuse to fatten the bank accounts of the execs. And the quarantine has made that painfully obvious. That's why essential workers hate the upper class.
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Parents working from home while watching their preschool kids HATE these tweets.
So do people who lived alone struggling with loneliness, those living in unsave conditions at home and those loosing their jobs during covid...
Load More Replies... And for the rest of the population trying to wfh while schooling 3 kids while their partner was out of the house risking life and limb as an essential worker? I don’t know any of these dancey, bready, arty people but I’m glad you had fun.
This is no such thing... yes, there was countless continuing suffering; no, nobody would have asked for it, and nobody would invite it back... but many of us were saved from personal hells that we couldn't have escaped otherwise, short of offing ourselves.
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I remember it from other people whining about it while I worked double shifts propelling educational systems and their users into the digital age. :p It was nice having the road mostly to myself on the way to work though, less nice that I wasn’t even allowed time off to care for dying relatives.
I was in prison at the time. From having the right to go out and about in our unit, "medical", religious services, outdoor and indoor rec, we were kept not only just in our units, but in our rooms. Everything was brought to us. Once per (8 hr.) Shift, our unit guard would let us get hot water (cooking hot) and ice. No TV or gaming room, showers were scheduled, no laundry (no laundry was relaxed quickly). We weren't allowed phone or computer time, and had to ask to go to the bathroom. This was late winter or early spring of '20. Regulations were slowly relaxed, but it was extremely difficult.
That sounds like a lot of solitary time. What did you do to keep yourself and mind occupied during that time?
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Yep I was working at food 4 less a grocery store at the time fun s**t (sarcasm in case anyone is dense enough not to know)
cleaner here... what bothered me most was that they would chear and clap for the essential workers at night, and meanwhile couldnt be assed to throw their used tissues and masks IN the bin, so i had to pick them up from the floor each night.
Remember when covid was on it's peak , hospitals were overcrowded, whole country was in lockdown and we still had to go to work no matter what?
Yeah, working in retail wasn't that much of a joy during that time
You can still do these things. Just have to fit them in around a work schedule that pays the bills or delay them until an opportune time.
I don't think we were in the same quarantine, I was depressed and suicidal
You CAN live that lifestyle. You need to either be very rich OR give up on having any modern conveniences. But anyone that expects to have a huge bank account on 20 hours a week work is in another reality altogether.
So many of us non medical workers, busting our asses to keep the world going got overlooked. I’m not taking anything away from the medical staff who had to see that. I’m a drug and alcohol counselor and some of my clients were those hospital and medical workers. The amount of trauma people had to deal with on a daily basis is horrifying. One of the parents of my client is an anesthesiologist. He basically helped people to have as painless deaths as possible all day, everyday. He drank because that was the only way he could sleep. The area I live in, the hospital he worked at, were hit hard. They had a fleet of refrigerated trucks to store the bodies. So many of my clients or their families overdosed because in person help wasn’t available. Most of the world shut down. Those tasked with keeping it running suffered immensely. We are the underpaid, the unseen, and yet still essential. The only beauty I saw during that time was the earth healing from the damage we inflict.
I have recently been making bread, creating art, exercising 5 times a week, and drinking more water. It has been great!
No, actually my mom Night Shift nurse at the ICU in the second biggest hospital in Virginia that commuted an hour didn’t
I wasn't even essential, but my boss insisted that we were still important enough to keep the business open. We make disinfectant. Did not get to have time off work until I got covid, they gave me 7 days. I was so sick. I want a glimpse into what life is supposed to be like. Instead I got an extra dose of reality.
I loved quarantine. I got lot's of overtime at work. Bought a fishing boat with added income. Wearing masks and not going anywhere meant me and my wife just watched movies at home. Things were better back then. For me and the Mrs. At least. I know not for everyone.
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And the air was cleaner in some cities…that one hit me hard, the impact of our living on our lives.
I'm retired. I get to do this EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. know y'all all jealous. 😎
How can joke aficionados and word craftsmen avoid that? Tattenbaum-Fine says the writers should dig deeper. She suggests asking yourself: 'What do I really, honestly, think about this topic?'
"If you dig deep and check in with yourself, your honest response to a current event might be totally unique and unusual because YOU are unique and unusual. People say lame and unfunny things because they are afraid to go a little further and find what's true for themselves. It's easier to play it safe," the comedy writer concludes.
How many times will I read this in different posts? How many?
Emma is a professional comedy writer and director. She launched her Substack 2 years ago and is currently mostly writing on that platform. "I haven't paid Twitter (X) a visit in a long time," Emma admits. At its beginning, the site was a great opportunity for aspiring comics to get themselves known.
For anyone who doesn't understand - Ku Klux Klan - american, white supremacist, terrorist group.
We ask Emma if she thinks Twitter (X) is still a place for aspiring comics and writers to get their start. "I think of Twitter now as a place for journalists to share breaking news and then for sociopaths to yell about it," she tells Bored Panda honestly. "But that doesn't mean that quality content won't get noticed."
I was somewhere in Paris, and we found a tiny Italian restaurant. We walk in and the only people there were 5 older italian men in suits, drinking scotch and smoking cigars seated at a round table. The looked genuinely surprised, and said there was a better restaurant down the street. I laughed and said, if you are worried thqat we are going to hear your mob plans, don't...k=none of us speak italian. One of them thought it was funny, and he and an older gentleman seated us, brought us pasta and sauce, bread, minestrone soup, and kept our glasses of wine full. They were funny, and when we asked for our bill, they refused to let us pay anything. I told them, I'll meet you in Sicily for the hit next week, and they all laughed, kissed us all goodbye, and walked us to the door. Truly one of the best experiences of my life, but I know something was going down in Sicily that following week!
Hmm.I wonder if it's too late for paramedic training?
Emma tells us her preferred platform nowadays is Instagram. "I prefer Instagram because it allows you to engage with fellow comedians and strangers outside of comedy who can become fans."
"Sociopaths come to Instagram too, of course, but I feel like I can curate my feed with funny people who inspire me if I do so intentionally," she says.
"Any medium you write in is a good fit for you if you're using it consistently and employing the feedback you get from readers to continue to hone your skills," Emma tells us.
For her the place to do that these days is Substack. She started on there in July 2021 and got her Substack named a Featured Substack of 2022. Subscribe and say hello to Emma on Substack or on her Instagram.
Well did you give his face sweet licky licks and wag your tail? Then maybe you just don’t deserve those kisses as much as the dogy did.
Your first mistake is giving a rat’s 🍑 about what people on Rotten Tomatoes say.
Can I just point out that it's usually the childless adults that are expected to cover holiday shifts which are tiring enough as it is. I'm in a relationship (same-sex) and my partner and I had to work every Christmas and New Years for 7 years because 'we don't have a family waiting for us at home.' Erm, the two of us ARE our family and here we are working together on holidays.
He may have been drafted but really was pretty coddled and protected... see this article https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/22/sixty-years-ago-elvis-presley-was-drafted-into-the-army-he-was-never-the-same/
Then there’s my teacher who went “u tried but you didn’t structure it right, also the algorithm said you copied off other students. C+.” (My essay was similar to other students’ because we all had to extensively cite from the same document. I contested it and got that demerit removed.)
You should pity that guy. The whole time he was thinking, "What? No! Not now, dammit. Grandma grandma grandma...oh just go away."
Can you imagine if Trump came back as a ghost, would he be pale orange?
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"Ah, yes, the ancient art of wisdom crafted with the precision of a sledgehammer in the Twitter-verse! 🐦✨ With 140 characters, we had comedy gold. Now with 280, we've got Twitter trying to be Shakespearean—double the characters, double the drama! 🎭 Bravo, Really Dumb Tweets, for sorting through the haystack of mediocrity to find these comedic needles. 1.6 million followers? That's more than my collection of cat memes.
"Ah, yes, the ancient art of wisdom crafted with the precision of a sledgehammer in the Twitter-verse! 🐦✨ With 140 characters, we had comedy gold. Now with 280, we've got Twitter trying to be Shakespearean—double the characters, double the drama! 🎭 Bravo, Really Dumb Tweets, for sorting through the haystack of mediocrity to find these comedic needles. 1.6 million followers? That's more than my collection of cat memes.
