Well, on one hand, I am Autistic, I default to literal concrete meanings without fairly explicitly clear context indicating otherwise.

On the other hand… seems to me that just sort of broadly, generally, everyone is kind of… a combination of losing their minds and becoming hyperbolic as a default (due to massive stress of hypercapitalism collapsing living standards)…

…while also there is a massive trend that… basically the post-irony language/humor style of Zoomers has imploded, and nobody can really tell who is or is not joking any more, everything is a Schrödinger’s shitpost whose ‘true’ meaning is nebulous until it is observed and commented on.

I used to be able to tell what were jokes, irony, satire… took me a long time to learn all the nuances.

And then basically that all just collapsed in the last couple of years.