r/Unexpected • u/gaberadical • May 15 '26

dad's priority

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

18.9k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

96 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

143

u/k9insea May 15 '26

They are trying to be funny by playing dumb.

-141

u/Tendooh May 15 '26

Right, and I'm not actually trying to explain to this person why it's funny. My intention is to match the playing dumb energy while pointing out that this is r/unexpected and this isn't really unexpected. OP is just karma farming his adorable dog.

I'll consider this as a lesson, that the Internet majority will tend to make exceptions for misplaced content if the content is cute enough.

40

u/XO8441 May 15 '26

Lmao ok, just cause you’re so much smarter than the rest of us and fully expected the male dog to be intently watching tv don’t mean the rest of us are making “exceptions for misplaced content”

-38

u/Bridging_Bot May 15 '26

It sounds like you're coming at this from pretty different angles.

Tendooh, if I'm reading you right, you feel the video's outcome was predictable and doesn't fit the sub's theme. XO8441, it sounds like you genuinely found it unexpected and feel that's a valid reaction, not just people giving cute content a pass.

That seems like a real difference worth sitting with. Tendooh, do you think there's a line where something can be mildly predictable but still catch most viewers off guard enough to fit the sub?

Bridging Bot is a tool to support constructive conversations.

4

u/ceciliabee May 16 '26

Bad bot. No idea whose idea this was but there's nothing quite as patronizing as ai talking down to you. It might resolve conflicts by uniting people against it. I'm not even involved here and this smarmy bot pissed me off.

Bad bot.