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You won’t be on Reddit long before you start to notice that almost every conversation devolves into puns, jokes or long strings of pop-culture quotes or references. It can sometimes be quite irritating when a really fascinating discussion gets derailed by someone making a joke and then the rest of the thread devolves into everyone trying to out-joke each other, but Reddit is strange like that. You can’t beat it, so you might as well shrug your shoulders and join it.
In 2018, io9 put out a series on 'The 100 Most Important Pop Culture Moments of the Last 10 Years'[1] and many of the replies on these articles could be straight from Reddit.
1: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-100-most-important-pop-culture-moments-of-the-last-1822241166
Because puns are a way to make a super simple joke without needing to be creative, it’s a quick way to get a laugh and can always be easily understood. References are always welcome because it's like being in on an inside joke[2], and affirms you’re among your peers in liking the same movies or shows. Make that Confirmation Bias[3] work for you! Even better, you might get lucky and make that one comment in a pun thread that gets all the upvotes. If in doubt, pun. Always pun. Reddit loves puns.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/9ys1if/if_i_pack_my_comment_with_cultural_references/
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
r/dadjokes acknowledges that some people are born with lame jokes in their heart and so here, everyone who has a cringe-worthy joke, verbal or visual pun that elicits a snort, face palm or groan is a dad. r/puns claim to be the largest community of punsters on the Internet while r/pun don’t claim anything. r/verypunny claim to have the best puns on Reddit while r/Jokes claims to be the funniest sub on Reddit. We also have the r/PunPatrol, keeping Reddit safe from puns since 2018. If you see a pun, report it there.
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9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho6end/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hha6vkz/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhuk1jh/
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