I’m convinced some of these people genuinely do not understand what sarcasm is. Do they think sarcasm just is any snarky comment? Also in what world would a journalist make a mean-spirited snarky comment against any ship?

Sarcasm is verbal irony, it’s literally saying the opposite of what you mean. Yes sarcasm is snarky, but it’s snarky to mock the sentiment they’re saying because they don’t actually believe it. That’s the whole point. If they’re sarcastically saying Buck and Eddie are not at all romantic there’s quite literally no way to read that other than that the person that wrote it does think they’re romantic and is mocking people who think they’re not.

THIS! ☝️☝️☝️

I do feel like the art of using and understanding good sarcasm is slowly disappearing though. Just an observation I made in my daily life. I'm naturally a sarcastic person when it comes to verbal communication and I feel like a lot of people just don't grasp the nuance anymore and take whatever I say for granted, which is not the intention of course.

So I sometimes find myself rethinking opening my mouth and saying something sarcastic, because I'm not sure if people will 'get' it and think that I'm insulting them or something. I never had to think of that 20 or 30 years ago. Most people just 'got' it.

“Sarcasm 101”

Q. Sarcasm goes both ways, dumbass. So that line can be read as sarcastic either way. It can be read as sarcastic towards the people who ship them or it can be read as sarcastic towards the people who don't. It depends on your opinion of the topic. So we don't know the author's sarcastic intentions because we don't know what their opinion on Buddie is. Hope that helps. I know intelligence is hard.

A. Why do you all act like you've never human'd before? Sarcasm does go both ways but not in the same line, dumbass. The wording of the line would be different depending on which viewpoint the writer wanted the reader to take as truth. So for instance the line we are talking about was saying, very clearly, that believing their just bestie bros at this point is kind of ridiculous. Now if the writer was making a statement about how ridiculous the idea of anything romantic between them is, they would have written something entirely different. Something more like:

"News of Eddie's potential move came as a surprise to his bestie Buck, weird for a supposed pair of soulmates who can read each other's every thought".

See the difference? That line is clearly mocking the idea of them as romantic partners. You can't read every piece of sarcasm as sarcastic towards both ideas. That's not a thing. Just like believing every scene we see on television is open to the viewer's interpretation to determine what it actually means is not a thing. Intention exists. And it exists obviously within the text of most things. Some things are open to the readers, or the viewers, interpretation, but not most things. Most things have an intended purpose and a particular conclusion the audience is supposed to come to. Hope that helps, jackass. I know intelligence is hard. Seriously there is no way you all are actually this stupid. And if you have to pretend to be this stupid in order for your character/ship to still sound possible then that should tell you something. Nevermind, convincing yourselves that none of this is weird or crazy behavior already tells me everything I need to know about your intelligence.

Thank you Nonny. 🤗

What is it with the rudeness of these people? There is a better, more polite way to ask someone a question or to make a point if you don't agree with someone else's take.

Anyway, Ali already said all that needed to be said in her answer.

It's like these people are willfully ignoring every single thing that is buddie-positive because they are convinced that we are all having some sort of mass-delusion that Buddie is going canon in 8b. At the same time they are convinced that BT are soulmates, which... no. 🤷‍♀️

I'm so tired of dealing with these people. I hope they all just go away during 8b as soon as they see that Buddie is really happening. 🤞🤞🤞

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I can feel the sarcasm in the conversation with my friends.

“We got older since three years ago”

“What”

“No way”