Unless you're a complete square, odds are you or your friends have been able to toss out some memorable one-liners or make each other laugh with some good ol' sarcasm. So how is it that we now live almost entirely online, or many do anyway, and yet we cannot find a good way to communicate sarcastically?
My friends and I have been trying a few methods, and we've found a clear standout winner. That's right,
we have sarcasm font. It works remarkably well, and has in every way changed how we communicate socially online.
So here it is...
Since Google has
graced us with the ability to add bold, italic, or strike-through to our font, we've decided to "sacrifice" one of these and re-purpose it. Italic was the winner. We simply didn't need it for anything else, we use bold for emphasis, so why not make it the
perfect way to finally communicate sarcasm digitally?
I implore you to try this. Tell a handful of your friends and give it a try the next week or two. For me this bridged the vast chasm (one might call it the sar-chasm?) between the digital world and the "real" world. It has become second nature when reading and writing, it is elegant and subtle, and I really don't think I can ever go back.
Our failed attempts:
We tried a few other systems, most of them were essentially HTML tags or something like it. We started with <sarcasm> yadda yadda </sarcasm> at first, then got lazy and just switch to </sarcasm> at the end of sentences. This worked, but it was
too explicit and it took away from the witty nature of sarcastic jokes. We tried similar variants, like adding (sarcasm) to sarcastic comments, but this just didn't work. That's like trying to show someone what the Mona Lisa looks like by drawing with a crayon on a wet bar napkin.
Spread the word, we have finally created sarcasm font!
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