Why is "delete your account?" witty?

[Anonymous]

I'm a Hillary supporter, but I genuinely don't get why people act like this is some hilarious witticism.

[Anonymous]

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/10/481579212/-memeoftheweek-delete-your-account

[Anonymous]

Apparently it's a twitter thing.

[Anonymous]

It isn’t.
Some Hillary supporters think they need to “swoon” over anything their candidate says or does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.npr.org/2016/06/10/481579212/-memeoftheweek-delete-your-account

Agree.

Delete the media. Please.

[Anonymous]

It is what people tweet as a wise crack when someone they know has tweeted a lame joke or stupid comment.

So it is a three word Twitter way of laughing or mocking or shaking one's head at a someone's stupid tweets.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Hillary supporter, but I genuinely don't get why people act like this is some hilarious witticism.

I've never been a fan of that particular burn, but in this case I think it was an effective way of belittling Trump and demonstrating that his Twitter attacks were not going to be treated seriously.

Because I am a long-winded over-thinker, I could also write a treatise analyzing the inconsistency of a technophobe who was incapable of managing two email accounts and, therefore, resorted to an email server in her basement now attempting to appear clued into the Twitterverse. Or, even discuss my discomfort with the roots of "delete your account" which lie in the "internet death sentence" frequently given out to those who have put a foot in their mouth. One poorly considered tweet can cause such a backlash that deleting your account is the only reasonable recourse. That doesn't seem like a system deserving of much praise. But, I'll avoid all of that. For now.

[Anonymous]

I think the response of well you are an expert at deleting emails is much better

[Anonymous]

I don't know that it was actually witty at all, but it was funny. Why anything is funny is probably up for philosophical debate. In this case, for me, I think it was funny for its unexpectedness, its social media savvy-ness, its brevity, and its immediate/high take-down factor.

It definitely is the kind of thing that is only funny one time, like when a kid makes a totally unexpected but on-point joke and the adults are all in hysterics, it's not funny if the kid makes the joke again next week, because the unexpected/novel factor is used up.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Hillary supporter, but I genuinely don't get why people act like this is some hilarious witticism.

I've never been a fan of that particular burn, but in this case I think it was an effective way of belittling Trump and demonstrating that his Twitter attacks were not going to be treated seriously.

Because I am a long-winded over-thinker, I could also write a treatise analyzing the inconsistency of a technophobe who was incapable of managing two email accounts and, therefore, resorted to an email server in her basement now attempting to appear clued into the Twitterverse. Or, even discuss my discomfort with the roots of "delete your account" which lie in the "internet death sentence" frequently given out to those who have put a foot in their mouth. One poorly considered tweet can cause such a backlash that deleting your account is the only reasonable recourse. That doesn't seem like a system deserving of much praise. But, I'll avoid all of that. For now.

Meh. That presupposes that any national political figure actually composes and posts their tweets. I'd bet Donald Trump is the only one that does his own tweeting, and we all know how that looks.

[Anonymous]

I agree. The uproar over it baffled me. Was it a reference to her 'deleting' scandal? A social media millenial thing (in which case half the people commenting on how great it was probably didn't even "get" it? WHAT WAS SO FUNNY!?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is what people tweet as a wise crack when someone they know has tweeted a lame joke or stupid comment.

So it is a three word Twitter way of laughing or mocking or shaking one's head at a someone's stupid tweets.

Well in that case, it's stupid all around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the response of well you are an expert at deleting emails is much better

Not really. It's like the comeback the guy who got burned two hours ago and amounts to "same to you." Lame.

[Anonymous]

I don't like it at all. Given HRC's immensely more substantive knowledge of policy, she should rise above this kind of incivility.

[Anonymous]

Like any in joke, if you didn't get it immediately, it will surely not seem funny when explained to you. (That's not some backhanded dig at you; you just don't happen to be part of the subculture who gets the joke.)