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There was a magician on a segment of Fool Us I saw who was really, really funny. He had this really awkward creepy persona that would honestly turn a lot of people off but it's a kind of humour I'm about. At one point he lifts up his shirt as part of the act and reveals under his all-black clothing he's wearing a bright pink bra. I laughed at first because to ME the joke was the juxtaposition of the pink and the black.
Then I realized why the audience was laughing and got real sad
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@witchfynder_finder dang that's worse...
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@lizardsquid Yeahhhh... It was basically just the "weird creepy guy does something associated with queer culture for a cheap laugh" thing and UGH.
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@witchfynder_finder gross
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@lizardsquid I've been heated about this for, like, two days tbh. =P
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@witchfynder_finder it's so frustrating that to him it was a cheap throwaway joke
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@lizardsquid It really is!
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@lizardsquid I knowwww. I was so disappointed because for, like, half a second it was a REALLY GOOD JOKE before I realized it was a really bad joke.
And, like, his tricks were cool and his persona made for a kind of humour I enjoy in general but that one moment kinda spoiled it for me. I think what got me was his line was "It's perfectly normal." Like with a different line like "What? I'm a winter." or something about the colour it could still have been good IMO.