The_Donald started as a trolls joke. The Flat Earth movement started as a joke. There’s always going to be some group of idiots that doesn’t get that they are the butt of the joke and instead lean into it unironically. This whole sub is in danger of getting taken over by those idiots.

They may not have made it, but they could have found it and thought it was serious

You’re talking about the people who regularly unironically post memes with the bearded dude who is every flaming power bottom’s wet dream.