Who's fault is it when someone doesn't get a joke? Honestly it depends. If it was too subtle a joke to begin with, or if it's just extremely unfunny, then we can safely fault the joke-attempter for being bad at their job. But if that joke is smokin' good, or at least pretty easy to get, we can in no good conscience allow random idiots on the internet to lambast someone for "being dumb" when it was they who could have thought about it for a moment.
Nothing boils our blood quite like seeing a good, or at least functionally okay joke get insulted just because someone was too stupid to get it. Just cause you don't have the desire to understand why a joke is good, doesn't give you a free pass to think you're clever for not getting it. All you get to be is another chowderhead who seriously didn't get jokes.
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