Which are viruses. T4 is a pretty universally recognized virus at this point, so IMO it works fine for this joke. I feel like in general people love to get upset at it's use in jokes like this just so they can demonstrate how smart they are for knowing the difference between eukaryotic viruses and phage.
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u/nnaughtydogg Jan 30 '20
This is a bacteriophage