The Job: Sasha Returns

TFM Intern13 years ago

^This comment made me laugh a lot more than it should have. It’s really refreshing to see someone invested in the fictional TFM universe. Like someone legitimately upset and disappointed that Sasha got hired. Like some guy just looking at his computer screen shaking his head mumbling to himself in disappointment, babbling incoherently at his dog as he opens another Budweiser.

^^Unfortunately, ‘Brother Pumpkin,’ if that’s even your real name, to successfully denote sarcasm on the internet, one must first establish an initial rapport with a majority of the community. These initial interactions must consist of establishing the character with which the sarcasm will be detectable from. This is to say, one must create a character from which we can begin to expect a pattern of behavior, or one which the community feels it is capable of understanding typical responses, etc. Once this has been established, detection of sarcasm can be reasonably expected. Without this initial process, however, there would be no way to decipher your comment as sarcasm, as I have no recollection of any previous posts. This is not to reject the possibility that all your posts have been sarcasm, in which case any person who has read up to this point would recognize the flaw in that structure. So, no, the joke is not on me, for there was no joke, save that ‘Brother Pumpkin’ has failed to maneuver the complex and intricate task of establishing sarcasm in text-only communication.