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[โ€“] Llituro@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

it turns out that shitposting was eternal, we can just make strangers rate our bits more efficiently

[โ€“] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Gotta respect the people who were doing actual manual labor to produce physical copies of their shitposts thatthey had to distribute by hand to all 30 literate members of their tiny town.

[โ€“] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Shitpoetry*

[โ€“] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Going back in time to take all people complaining about poets and strap them down in chairs and force them to watch Titanic video essays

[โ€“] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Poets of yesterday are shitposters of today huh?

I love it!

[โ€“] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Poets, amirite?

[โ€“] culpritus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

From Poetics to Hot Takes: A Historical Analysis of Dirtbaggism

"A shitpost by any other name would smell as stank"

[โ€“] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Damn, they're acting like Thomas Hardy was William McGonagall.

[โ€“] Melina@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Titanic sank because it was engineered by trotskyist scousers

[โ€“] mushroom@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

this article posted by jon bois a couple years ago is my favorite old newspaper article

[โ€“] moonlake@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Tbh none of these are particularly funny, which supports my thesis that humor was invented by Monty Python in 1969