On: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

[iso1210]

I read through that and I still wasn't sure if he was being serious or not.

[bagels → iso1210]

Same. I didn't see a joke. Were Roku devices rebooting? Was it being caused by a Pokemon game? No idea what is going on here.

[zamadatix → bagels]

The part in "the joke" contains the joke, all of the other sections are not.

Pokemon Sword/Shield was really causing Roku devices to boot until Roku issued a patch as the "background" section details.

The joke was this involved a collision with some signed Roku command and that's the fluke our universe gets over a planet of Justin Timberlake clones. It's not a "2 guys and a priest walk into the bar" type joke, it was on /r/programminghumor after all.

[SixDouble5321 → zamadatix]

It's a very loose interpretation of the word joke. It was more of an apocryphal explanation for a Roku bug.

[iso1210 → zamadatix]

So the media circus was about a real bug? Sounds like a legitimate media story.