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It's a classic anti-joke. You set up for a joke punchline, then you say something that isn't the expected joke, and usually isn't even funny. The thing that makes people laugh is that they were expecting a joke and then it isn't one.
This particular one really probably only works if you hang out in certain types of online trans spaces, because otherwise you won't recognize the setup.
Even more explanation, spoilered for easier scrolling:
The joke this anti-joke is riffing on is actually also kind of meta, now that I think about it.Ok, so, if you think you're a boy, but you play as a girl in video games, have a fascination with feminine clothing, and "wish you were a girl", then you might be, in fact, not a boy, you might be trans.
The joke then, is how often the above statement gets bandied about in trans spaces. It's a true statement, almost self-evidently so, and yet, if you're an egg (which in this context means a person who is trans but doesn't know it yet), you sometimes don't realize you're trans until/unless you see this statement somewhere and then start thinking about it. So people in trans spaces, especially spaces where there are a lot of eggs for whatever reason, will post this kind of sentiment constantly. It's kind of funny how often.
So here we are with the original anti-joke this whole thread has been about: the person on twitter starts the sentence that always ends with "you might be trans", but then actually posts a pretty neat news article, and since you're expecting "you might be trans" and get instead "neat underground forest found in China", then if you're me, you chuckle a little, because it's pretty funny.