“Fun Fact: 1000% More of Something is 11 x Something”
A short dive into absurdity
I strive to live by a few rules in my adulthood.
One of the most important ones:
“Never argue on the internet.”
I’m not always perfect at it — surprise, surprise, I’m only human — but 99% of the time, it serves me well.
The title above was innocuous enough. Someone posted a clickbait article striking fear into our hearts about whatever topic du jour the mass media wanted us to panic about to get more clicks and ad revenue.
Then a user on this particular social media leveraged that panic and added their own title to gain useless internet likes to feel more important.
The headline screamed something like:
“Sloths on average get laid 1000% more often than you! That’s 10 times more!”
Only slightly miffed, I wrote:
“Fun fact: 1000% more of something is 11 x something”
What followed was tens of thousands of strangers from all around the world taking precious time out of their day to craft some of the most creative insults imaginable.
- “So cute, it thinks it can do math.”
- “You’re the reason teachers need summer…
