In what way does it turn it racist?

I think a bigger deal is that over 80% of them are dying on ASRock boards. Not a good look for ASRock.

Are you sure? I’m a pretty heavy sleeper…

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/programming-socks

It’s a good thing we got rid of all those unqualified DEI hires!

I agree that we seem to use language differently, and it’s pretty interesting to see. Both of us have been upvoted by at least one or two other people as well, so it seems some people agree with you and some with me despite our completely different takes, so I don’t think either of us are really wrong.

According to the dictionary, ‘is’ and ‘was’ are respectively a present and past tense singular of the world ‘be’. The definition of the word ‘be’ (or at least, the one I find relevant here), is “having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified”. This seems like a significantly more important part of the sentence to be emphasizing here.

On the moon he is the alien.

As opposed to who? I still just can’t understand why you would emphasize ‘he’, when there are no other subjects that we could be talking about. Like, obviously we’re talking about Neil, so why would you put emphasis on it? On the other hand, the fact that he actually ‘is/was’ an alien is pretty surprising to think about and thus the important bit.

The emphasis is not being placed on was because it’s past tense, it’s being placed on was because the shitpost is ironically somewhat accurate. You can replace it with is if you’d like for the same meaning. On the other hand, everyone knows we’re talking about Neil as there is no other relevant subject, so bringing attention to the word he doesn’t really make any sense.

Perhaps it would read better if they had said “…he actually was an alien”?

Why would he be italicized? ‘Was’ would be italicized because the emphasis is being put on the fact that he actually was an alien.

This is fire.

Yeah, the entire joke is a subversion of expectations. The only reason the joke works at all is because the format is being used “incorrectly”.

Well-priced for the content of the game itself, with or without 20% off.

You have such a way with words.

I haven’t read the article, but surely this is an accident? I have almost no faith left in our capitalistic society, but surely even Youtube understands that nobody is going to watch an hour long ad, right?

Right, but what if they’re hot?

Drama aside, then is used for time, whereas than is for comparisons.

• I am taller than her

• And then we watched a movie

An example correctly using both back-to-back would be:

• I was weaker back then than I am now

Good question, linking the article directly definitely would have been better. I’m not the OP if you didn’t notice, I just saw the article link.

The Reddit post directly links to an article. It’s not in English though.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20138247

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Plus the one I linked earlier, plus OP. That’s 9 people saying it’s real in this thread alone. If you take a look in the reddit thread OP sent a few minutes ago, there are at least several dozen more people agreeing. Like these two for quick examples.

I don’t see how the entire screenshot would be any harder to photoshop. But you can look through this thread and find multiple different people confirming it on their ends too.

Like this one.

I see you’ve already seen that one, but the point is multiple people are having different results. Unless you think like 10 different people are independently lying about it.