Poe’s Law was named in 2005. Which was interesting news to all of us on Usenet for whom this phenomenon was already known before Eternal September or Green Cards stole the show.

Sarcasm was already dead before “spam” meant ads instead of scrolling a forum or chat window by repeating yourself (exactly like the Monty Python sketch it alluded to).

Sarcasm only works if it can succesfully comunicate that it is sarcasm; be it body language, face expression, absurdity, or memeing. On the internet you are a random faceless stranger to me, so how can I distinguish sarcasm other than guessing?

If the priors were the other way then people would complain that nobody takes anyone seriously.