"Why don't you take anything seriously for once?"

Simple. I can't. That's why.

No, actually. I'm not even fucking kidding, that's literally the reason. I'm simply not allowed to be serious if I wanted to or must be serious with something. 

Someone from a partnered Discord server—mind you, full of people who are mostly goofy and like to steer off one topic to multiple different topics—accused me of not taking anything seriously (which is false if we're talking about intentions), and I responded with these:

In servers like this, it's hard to even take anything seriously or try to say anything serious without someone going "tf is this dude on about" or some shit, so...damned if I don't take anything seriously and damned if I do.

I hate how it works like that, but that's sadly the Discord side of the internet. 🤷🏾‍♂️

And to be honest, that's not even a Discord-exclusive issue of the internet. It's rather something as a whole. 

Like literally, I'll say the corniest horseshit one time to play along with the rest of everyone just fucking around and obviously get shit on for it as if I was "intentionally not taking anything seriously", but any time I actually try to take anything seriously or be serious about anything, I also get shit on for it as if I "misunderstood the joke (that never was obvious for a naïve person like myself)". 

You can't really goofy on the interenet, but at the same time, you are just simply not allowed to be serious either nowadays because you're going to be made fun of or questioned heavily in the wrong way for it. Essentially, damned if you take anything seriously and damned if you don't. There just isn't no gray area for "locked the fuck in" and "fucking around", unless you count being deadass silent as an in-between.

Really, what the fuck happened to the internet, y'all? I've been welcomed already, but what happened to not holding someone on a high pedestal for this?

(This is also a staple of Reddit where if you take anything seriously, you get downvoted to hell, but you also get downvoted to hell anyways when you finally let up the seriousness.)