This “law” about internet culture is from a comment by user Nathan Poe in 2005: > Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that _someone_ won't mistake for the genuine article. These days it’s used to point out how parody or sarcasm are indistinguishable from sincere opinions online when talking about extreme topics. Feel like this is probably exacerbated by [[{1.2a2} context collapse]]. [[2024-06-22]] — Hmm, and how will this change with AI-generated content being [[{6.1a1} is Online about to get way less cool|increasingly hard to distinguish]] from human-generated content? It’s already so hard to know what’s genuine online.