A big problem is that a lot of these internet communities are so insular and irony-steeped that when you look at it from the outside it's completely incomprehensible, and then a challenge to get people to even understand what stuff actually means

Because yeah, it might be bullshit.. or it may not. And then how do you figure out what the things actually mean?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well put. One of the more ridiculous such cases of misunderstanding of online communities' lingo is some sort of an "investigator" who said that "bump" on 4chan refers to cocaine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YIpi8GVbc8

Hopefully they will find something that more clearly identifies the guy's motifs (if there were any coherent motifs at all), or he just explains it himself...