In the early days of the internet, we used to have this thing called a joke. You would casually say something that was obviously so false it would be impossible, and people would laugh over the shear absurdity of it.
Now, everyone takes everyone else literally, and we have this weird situation where people tell a joke and other people think they were being serious.
What is even odder is that some of the people who take things literally repeat those jokes as fact because they don't realize the original absurd statement was a joke.
