Using /s to indicate sarcasm ruins the effect of sarcasm, amirite?

Are you being sarcastic?

by Anonymous 8 months ago

I'm not, clearly. Are you being a happy horse with a waffle cone on their head?

by Trick_Macaroon 8 months ago

I use /S when the particular sarcasm I did, in text, if taken seriously will see me getting notifications for the next 24 hours of how big an asshole I am. I get enough of that when I'm being serious.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

You don't use the /s and suddenly you've got the lowest common denominator and their 3 brain cells shrieking at you.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Yeah right /s

by Anonymous 8 months ago

I personally don't think it ruins the effect. I just ignore it. I think a lot of the time it's necessary because if you don't use it, someone will take you seriously and give you earache over it. Personally if I see '/s' I just ignore. It doesn't ruin it for me at all. Sucks that it does for you though

by Anonymous 8 months ago

I only allow /srs

by Anonymous 8 months ago

"/s" is nothing but a marker to indicate sarcasm in text. You are overthinking it.

by Diamondboyle 8 months ago

Everybody knows that. Saying "This is sarcasm BTW" is what ruins the joke.

by Fast_Original_2440 8 months ago

I agree with you, what I'm saying is that people who put "/s" aren't actually saying "This is sarcasm BTW". It's specifically for clarification so the reader can correctly understand the statement and shouldn't be included as if it was apart of the statement. It's like putting an astrics next to a word for a footnote. OP seems to think "/s" is what "ruins the joke" when really it's his misinterpretation. I get what he's saying but it really has nothing to do with what he's saying lol.

by Diamondboyle 8 months ago

I only use it on twitter because a lot of the people I'm friends with can't tell sarcasm over text.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

I agree but it only exists because people can't be funny online. They have to be dicks first and foremost.

by Narcisoquigley 8 months ago

Good point. I would also like to add that people who claim that a sarcastic tone can only be conveyed verbally must have really been struggling with Jane Austen when they could not find that /s at the end of each book. I see this often being used as an argument that it is somehow impossible or at least very difficult to write something sarcastically.

by Rohanautumn 8 months ago

It only exists because of Americans. You basically need to state you're being sarcastic in person as well because they just struggle so much with it.

by Great-Comedian3633 8 months ago

...or people with mental disabilities like autism can know if you're being serious or not.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

"DURRRRR AMERICANS BAD"

by skilestobin 8 months ago

Not such an unpopular opinion after all /s

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Yea and the second people are able to use common sense and put it together that when someone says something ridiculous on a meme page it's very obviously not serious and you're just being a killjoy, then maybe we won't have to use it anymore

by SadDescription 8 months ago

You'll die of thirst reading my dry ass sense of humor.

by Koelpincharles 8 months ago

But you can never tell whats sarcasim without it!

by Kemmertyler 8 months ago

The "purpose" of sarcasm isn't to have plausible deniability or the "aha moment". It's just about saying something without meaning it, at the root. /s or otherwise saying "I'm joking" online has multiple uses. It can replace the verbal "I'm joking", sarcastic tone, or can affirm that where it is already there. Even verbal sarcasm can fail, whether by lacking tone or in how people express themselves. Good comedy, or other writing or art doesn't mean you don't need to explain or affirm your meaning. Any means of expression/communication is foremost about communicating what you intend to communicate. If you try to not "cut corners", or expect others not to, you're just chasing a perfection and not communicating at all, rather than making a small concession for the sake of communication.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

You have to use /s because the majority of people online are too stupid to identify sarcasm, especially if it offends them or their indoctrinated beliefs.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

This is a fact for ALL social media. The nit-wits who cannot identify good sarcasm always want to go full on literal and start arguing. Sarcasm is an art that only the sharpest wit can perform and appreciate. "/s" is like, "Okay. I'm gonna tell you a joke." and it's already not funny.

by Anonymous 8 months ago