I’m wondering how many people complaining about this joke just have no frickin’ idea who Dick Tracy is.
 
@Background Pony #1F25  
Best comment of the thread, by far.

Dick Tracey isn’t euphoric, your arguments are invalid

@Background Human  
Well, it’s twitter. There are people stupid enough to try and make thoughtful arguments about important events in 140 characters or less.
 
Anyway, we just hit 2015. It’s time to get new material, and ~ le fedora ~ jokes aren’t it.  
Especially ones that are just about the dumb hat being a dumb hat that certain fans wear.

 
And I say that as someone who enjoys a good fedora joke now and then. The execution is all wrong. What should be the source of comedy–the juxtaposition between Dick Tracy and the neckbeard stereotype–is blown in the setup, leaving nothing for the punchline. Instead, that second sentence comes dangerously close to explaining the joke.

lol, even the atheists dont want to be called atheists

@Narlepoax III
 
ah ok. Thanks

Saying we are anything like Dick Tracy should be a compliment.

@LanceOmikron  
No, it doesn’t, it only implies that he’d have to be tweeting with an actual point in mind, which I don’t think he was given the other tweets of his that show up in my feed. He just likes typing stupid shit, not making serious points with sarcasm or otherwise. :P

@Background Pony #2A38  
That implies that it requires effort to point out the stupidity of the groups in question. >_>

@Background Pony #9640  

 
 
“One of the most well-known Newspaper Comics of all time, one of the earliest of the Adventure strips, one of the most popular and longest lasting, and one of the few Adventure strips still being published, Dick Tracy, created by Chester Gould, is about the cases of a tough as nails police detective. Inspired as a Take That towards organized crime in the 1930s (indeed, the strip’s first major villain, Big Boy, was an Expy of Al Capone) the series followed Detective Dick Tracy as he fights crime, as a modern day Sherlock Holmes but with a lot of emphasis on forensic methods and police procedures. Furthermore, the strip pulled no punches with an intensity of bloody violence for its time that would impress Sam Peckinpah and Quentin Tarantino.

@Narlepoax III  
I don’t think he was trying to point out anyone’s stupidity, though, I think he’s just tweeting whatever stupid thing comes to his mind.

@Background Pony #2A38  
Of course it’s absurd. That’s what makes it a joke. The absurdity comes from using bad logic in a way that works against its usual proponents. It doesn’t take a super genius to point out stupidity.

I think we’re all taking this a little too seriously…

Come on now, Max. Everyone knows Dick Tracy was Jewish.
 
#geturfaktsright 2015

@Narlepoax III  
Yeah, there is no point. It’s supposed to be dumb. I recently saw him tweet “I hope I don’t wake up buried alive in my mom’s coffin”. His tweets aren’t trying to make points.

I’m still trying to figure out why there are people on this board of all places that take those two statements as insults toward mr. tracy, (whoever that is) when everyone here is a brony and it’s a reasonable bet that about half are probably atheist.
 
Context, dude!

@LanceOmikron  
Let’s not forget the time and effort he probably devoted to SPIKE.MOV which was nothing more than Spike dicking around with a Tech-Deck and made with the express purpose of playing a brief practical joke.

@Background Pony #2A38  
Well, O intelligent one, if you’re so certain of that, surely you know what the actual point was?

@Narlepoax III  
LOL! You’re looking into it way too much and thinking about it way more than HDD did. Yes, it’s playing on the fedora stereotype, it’s not making any serious point or trying to make fedoras seem cooler.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Yep, I’m well aware of that. ^_ ^
 
He made Pony.MOV, after all.

@LanceOmikron  
It’s Hotdiggedydemon. He’s like the M.A. Larson of the fan animation community. Of course he’s not being serious.

@Background Pony #BEAD  
Not understanding the joke because your kneejerk reaction to it blocked your reasoning power = butthurt.

@eden89  
The point is this: There is a stereotype on the internet among the more conservative crowd. Feminists, republicans, anti-bronies, anti-gamers… People like that have a joke among themselves that the fedora is an accessory only ever worn by lonely, fat, asocial, trolls who only act the way they act because they can’t get a girlfriend.
 
HDD’s joke takes that stereotype and flips it on its head, by pointing out that a lot of suave, serious ladies men wore (and still wear) the fedora.

@Narlepoax III  
So not liking a low-brow joke = butthurt?
 
if you say so

@Background Pony #4D70
 
Ah… @Narlepoax III
 
The point? Could you say it to me, please?