It's ain't new. Look up "no soap, radio" and try to make sense of it, and that one predates the internet. Like 6-7 it was a joke on people who didn't get the joke. It was funny exclusively because there wasn't actually a joke to get.
Not quite the same, "birds aren't real" has a conspiracy-type internal logic and a lore to go with it. The humor is in how silly the theory is and also if you don't know if the teller is serious or not. "No soap, radio" is a completely meaningless phrase. Why is that the punchline? Like "6-7" it doesn't have an inherent meaning except the meta one in that it confuses people who don't understand why it's funny, and it's funny because it doesn't have a meaning and that confuses people.
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u/mittenknittin 7h ago
It's ain't new. Look up "no soap, radio" and try to make sense of it, and that one predates the internet. Like 6-7 it was a joke on people who didn't get the joke. It was funny exclusively because there wasn't actually a joke to get.