I read your comment and still didn’t get it. Then, I clicked on the link, and discovered that when you said “CIA removed glow in the dark”, it’s actually more like “CIA [redacted] glow in the dark”. I had first read it as if there was something that glowed in the dark, and the CIA removed its glow in the dark properties.
So, now that I have fully read and understood the meaning of the term, I can say that I still don’t get it. Well… either I don’t get it or I don’t think it’s funny. Like, if it’s really just a joke that “glow up” could mean “became an agent,” then I don’t get why he’s portrayed as old, because that joke would still work exactly the same if he just looked normal.
Yeah, I copy/pasted the quote as-is, and Lemmy has a slur filter that automatically changes things to *removed*, which in this case made it more confusing.
I read your comment and still didn’t get it. Then, I clicked on the link, and discovered that when you said “CIA removed glow in the dark”, it’s actually more like “CIA [redacted] glow in the dark”. I had first read it as if there was something that glowed in the dark, and the CIA removed its glow in the dark properties.
So, now that I have fully read and understood the meaning of the term, I can say that I still don’t get it. Well… either I don’t get it or I don’t think it’s funny. Like, if it’s really just a joke that “glow up” could mean “became an agent,” then I don’t get why he’s portrayed as old, because that joke would still work exactly the same if he just looked normal.
Yeah, I copy/pasted the quote as-is, and Lemmy has a slur filter that automatically changes things to
*removed*, which in this case made it more confusing.I also don’t get why he’s old and she’s not 🤷
Your instance may have crappy admins that police users language. You should go to another one.
Your lemmy instance may have a slur filter, but that’s not a common feature. We are all grown ups here, we can swear for fucks sake.
Fuck yeah we can!