Poe's law
Sign in to saveadage of Internet culture that, without a clear indicator of intent, one can’t parody extreme views such that some can’t mistake it for a sincere expression of the parodied views
Wikidata facts
- Main subject
- computer-mediated communication
Show 1 more fact
- publication date
- 2005-08-10
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
Origin
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poe's law” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.