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 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!
Your instance may have crappy admins that police users language. You should go to another one.