Don’t give them ideas!

This reminds me of those trashy articles like the ones Microsoft peddles on their Windows 11 widgets tab. They basically take a few tweets with just a handful of likes and create an entire article around them. The buzz that they are drumming up feels artificial and contrived. And if the author was really lacking in integrity, they could just set up anonymous Twitter accounts and conjure up the posts themselves.

That's at least half of what hacker news is now.

I disagree, but to give you the benefit of the doubt, I'd love to see examples if you have any.

Well, that's quite humerus

Hey, no puns allowed in this joint.

He didn’t mean any arm

That's really stretching it. I wouldn't go so far out on a limb.

I’m so glad we’ve moved on from the journalism of “here’s what 3 or 4 people are talking about on Twitter” to “here are a few videos on TikTok with barely any views starting a massive trend”. Can’t wait for the journalists to fully automate this process with chatGPT.

But the data point is just wrong or poorly described. Did you really just test one side (the "funny elbow") and compare it to the possibly very different thing from the article. A search for "fake British accents" brings up multiple videos with >100000 likes each and significantly more such than for funny elbow.

There's an obvious connection in your two 'random' words: hitting the edge of one's elbow is commonly referred to as the "funny bone."