Do you add relevant hashtags to your jokes/deep thoughts? That would help them to be discovered by others.
> #baseball combines the two things Americans love most: Perfect lawns and arguments in hindsight about the decisions that professionals make.
I wrote this, but think it's funnier without the hashtag.
With many more I can think of things that I considered really funny, but had no conceivable way of adding hashtags without taking away from the brevity:
> I propose we start calling snow plow guys "Storm Troopers"
> The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease.
Where could I hashtag those up without making them considerably less funny? I think the brevity is required for maximum "impact", and I don't wanna detract by putting a hashtag in the middle, because its the sentence equivalent of stressing a syllable awkwardly.
Some people on Twitter have turned this awkward word-stressing into an art. Comedian Rob Delaney comes to mind as an expert in maximizing the awkwardness of it.
"The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease #joke #black humour #funny #comedy"
You'd look like a colossal ass if you did that.
I think it's different, however, if there are a few hashtags at the end which in themselves are jokes or metajokes and that add to the cleverness of the post, in the same way that XKCD alt-text does. A string of simple categories (#joke #jokes #funny #comedy) is just annoying.