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Homer: Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! [leaves, slamming the door. beat. pokes his head back in] By the way, I was being sarcastic. [slams door]
Marge: Well, duh.
Simply put, marking online text to indicate sarcasm.
Even verbally, sarcasm doesn't always carry over well. Some people just can't recognize it. Some people just can't express it. On the Internet it's worse. While it's bad to act out an emotion by merely stating that you feel that way, on the Internet it is sometimes necessary to indicate emotions such as sarcasm. Here is one way to mark it up:
, written after people completely failed to appreciate the sarcasm behind an 'interview' he gave regarding Creationism. This, however, was due to Poe's Law.
Sarcasm mode is Older Than Radio: the irony mark, ؟, was proposed in the 19th century.
On Wikipedia, people have unsuccessfully tried to outlaw sarcasm, eventually culminating in this essay.*
Users on TV Tropes tend to mark sarcasm in what they write by making the sentence in question and potholing it to this page. Do NOT do this. It's a much better idea to just write in a way that makes the sarcasm clear. Limit the potholes to when it's actually necessary, like for showing the sarcasm in a quote whose sarcasm isn't apparent without the pothole.
Compare and contrast Sincerity Mode.
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