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[โ€“] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Right, but a lot of those aren't layers of the joke, they're just unrelated aspects of the joke. It's funny, but layer 1 = beards getting grey as they get older, layer 2 = he's gay and his beard is more white now. All the other things you mentioned are just additional strands of spaghetti sticking to the wall.

This has big:

"[mediocre post].

Let that sink in."

energy.

[โ€“] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 6 days ago

Yeah, because when you explain the joke it's not funny... It's how jokes work

I tried to preserve whatever humor is left to be had, not actually be funny. The joke was far funnier than it could ever be deconstructed as