Jesus. Joking not allowed on Hackernews. Thanks for the downvotes.

You know, before emojis we had these things called smilies, which are composed of several different characters to express some intent. It works like this ;) - aka wink wink, I'm not serious.

It's not that people are against jokes, yours just didn't land. Have some humility.

Yeah this. I've seen plenty of good jokes on here get upvoted. OPs was unoriginal and lacked any creativity.