#chicken crossed road?

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD AFTER AROUND SEVEN YEARS

I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD

I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THE "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD" JOKE

[ghost-format]

Red Robin Tim Drake, but he’s a chicken

He’s standing on one side of a road, with a little though bubble from him that says

“I can’t cross that line”

[makenna-made-this]

She won't listen to me no matter how much pleading or begging over the plight of the local amphibian population i do so i'm resorting to public shaming

[marjoree]

take your time, we'll wait

[mywastelandperfection]

[tilbageidanmark]

To get to the other side.

[comicdiaries]

She was black with a huge poof of white feathers on her head. Such a looker!

[link-sans-specs]

Chicken Daddies

Rhett & Link

We Got a Chicken To Cross the Busiest Road in America

[kaaaaaaarf]

how many eggs does remus and sirius crack to make an omelette

Well, Sirius has a French background, so it only takes one egg (because one egg is un oeuf).

As for Remus, well—despite being a practical yolker, he's omelette smarter than he looks, so he knows that making an omelette isn't all it's cracked up to be. He leaves it to Sirius. 🐣

[thewizzard767]

The Brainrot 1: Patient Zero

AND SO IT BEGAN. This was back in 2018, when I had just found out about Undertale, namely the funny skeletons. I quite literally traced over the sprites and started working from there. And good heavens. I never stopped.

[bawlboxer]

[steve-s-slut]

🐣

[gr3n0nion]

The chicken stands at one end of the road.

Paralyzed by fear.

It looks so much bigger here, up close.

She’d only seen it from her cage before,

Rattling away in the back of a rusted truck.

If she could fly like other birds,

It’d be easy.

She’d soar through the sky

Over the trees

To somewhere safe.

Somewhere far away.

She wouldn’t have to spend her life

Putting food on a farmer’s table.

Whatever happens here, she’s not going back.

Whatever happens here on the road,

She’s free.

[nyaifyz]

[2022dirt]

A chicken crossing the road to the chicken kitchen restaurant.

[captainclickycat]

I feel like one really annoying aspect of the rampant spread of internet misinformation is the way people just make no distinction between speculation and fact. Like the second anyone suggests that there’s a possibility of something being true, certain people will automatically take that to mean it is true.

Say if some film star gets a divorce, he and his ex-wife give a boring generic statement to the press along the lines of “we grew apart, we wanted different things, please respect our privacy at this difficult time, blah blah blah” but somebody on the internet (maybe someone with personal beef, or a tendency to get a little overexcited about potential drama or their ability to gauge supposed “subtext”, or maybe they assume breakups only ever happen for some dramatic reason like this, or they’re just bored) says “hey, do you think he cheated on his wife? I think this vague thing she said in an interview definitely implies that he cheated on her. And he got into a new relationship quite quickly. I think he probably maybe cheated on his wife.”

…And people will just read that and go “oh my god, is that true?? I can’t believe he cheated on his wife” and then this rumour sort of makes its way around the internet with nobody bothering to differentiate between whether it’s an established fact or whether it’s just a vague possibility someone threw out based on not very much information at all. Then before you know where you are a lot of people have just accepted it as something that happened. “Hey, did you hear that guy cheated on his wife?” “I stopped watching his films because I heard that he cheated on his wife” “omg I can’t believe you’re still supporting this guy…”

Did Film Star Guy actually cheat on his wife? Who knows. Whether he did or not isn’t really the point. The point is that the people confidently spreading this rumour around don’t actually know either. They just act like - and sometimes genuinely believe - they do.

Sometimes it’s just a bit annoying. Like you can imagine a lot of incorrect “common knowledge” and urban myths get spread around this way with nobody actually bothering to stop and check if they’re true (because as long as it sounds plausible, right?) and it’s always just a little bit irritating to see people running around confidently spouting wrong information because another person pulled it out of their arse on twitter.

But on the other end of the spectrum it can have some pretty dire consequences if, for example, someone decides to take advantage of the rumour mill with internet “callout posts” in order to drag someone’s name through the mud and get them harassed. (Honestly, even if the instigator isn’t even doing it out of malice, and just made an honest mistake or read something a little tone-deaf in the worst possible faith.)

It’s not even always a case of people believing lies, just people making zero mental distinction between “maybe” and “definitely”. And it’s incredibly frustrating.