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Why typographic humor doesn't age well

Why typographic humor doesn't age well

One of online's most interesting forms of comedy has an unbearably short shelf life.

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Carl Beijer
Aug 26, 2024
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Back in 2015, the small faction of Twitter users I spent my time chatting with suddenly fell into the habit of talking about “true gamers.” The joke was that at the time, video game writing often made a weirdly insecure and self-aggrandizing distinction between true gamers and poseurs, so it was funny to carry that into unrelated contexts. True gamers d…

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