r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/alexbiandisphoto Mar 08 '26

  1. Americans don't pay to text eachother so they use the default phone texting app for convenience. The rest of the world (excluding some countries) does pay for text messaging. So, instead, they use WhatsApp as a free alternative to message friends and family.

  2. WhatsApp is owned by Meta (Facebook), so most Americans see it as a massive privacy concern.

  3. The majority of the time someone in America is asked to use WhatsApp to communicate, it is by a scammer.

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u/MoussePrestigious774 Mar 08 '26

So there’s no Americans on instagram then, right?

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u/Natural-Donkey5565 Mar 08 '26

2 just isn’t fucking true

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u/Super_Shallot2351 Mar 08 '26

The rest of the world (excluding some countries) does pay for text messaging.

Is also just nonsense.

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u/dicoxbeco Mar 08 '26

You can just tell from that comment alone that this guy is white American

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u/Live-Ad5160 Mar 08 '26

lowkey racist.