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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The "Everybody had one" caption in the thumbnail is patiently false. I think they've only found a few hundred of them, which means not everybody had one.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'm dyslexic and that's where the spell check got me.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, this video is poorly researched clickbait.

Yeah that really bothered me. A lot of people are going to interpret that literally. I hate that sort of clickbait.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are you interpreting it literally? It's a figure of speech—a kind of hyperbole; it's just a way of implying something was common, not that literally every person had one.

Whether it actually was common though, I don't know. Joe here might be taking some liberties for the sake of a catchy thumbnail.

It's a race to the bottom. Everything is blown the hell outta proportion until meaning is well meaningless.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Everybody had one" is not a figure of speech or even hyperbole. It is a very simple literal claim, which also happens to be a flat out lie.