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That's a joke BTW. It's the song "Jesus He Knows Me" by Genesis, about amassing large amounts of money by misleading honest people. At 2:59 in the official video is the quote "You can call my toll free number, 1-555-GEN-ESIS" which I find, as the overall lyrics, great.

Well, what has Hacker News become that one has to explain even the jokes..

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HN is a fickle beast - sometimes jokes are well-received and upvoted, sometimes they’re misunderstood and downvoted, and sometimes they’re understood and downvoted out of spite. It’s hard to read the room sometimes, especially in a text-only medium where despite commenting and interacting a lot, many of us don’t actually really know each other

HN doesn't take too kindly to jokes.

My experience is that 0 effort reddit style memeing is downvoted, while sarcasm and jokes are rewarded as long at least a minimum effort is shown.

I think that most people (me included) just didn't get the joke.

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