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It's actually an old, yellowed photograph of Rick Astley.



But seriously, why the downvotes? I responded to a joke about pretend early 20th century spammers with a joke about pretend early 20th century rickrolling. Are we only allowed to be completely serious here? Did I do harm to the level of discourse here? What's going on?


The downvotes are probably because joking is already frowned upon enough on HN that when you make an unoriginal, not really funny joke, it kills it.





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