r/lovethissmug • u/Specific-Antelope-72 • 25d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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u/Fiskmaster 25d ago

I went to the page to check if the caption's been removed by now, and it technically has, but they replaced it with a screenshot of the caption, which is arguably funnier

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u/Winjin 25d ago

The best part here was that they were trying to argue that Wikipedia has to be "neutral" as in "not funny at al" but they still have to record big memes and controversies, so whoever was having a stick up their ass immortalised this, lol

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u/Drow_Femboy 25d ago

Yeah it was a very silly argument. On one side, "this is a completely accurate caption that happens to be amusing, it should stay" and on the other side "WIKIPEDIA IS VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS NOTHING AMUSING ALLOWED"

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u/ExpressionWorried300 25d ago edited 25d ago

Which is funny because Wikipedia has an entire category for "humorous essays"

One of my favorites is "Wikipedia:Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you" with this image

Edit: It's also known as WP:PBAGDSWCBY. They made an acronym for this shit