The stages of forum disbelief:

1. Wait, some of this stuff is fake?!
2. That’s fake!
3. That’s fake too!
4. That’s FAKE, well, it’s a funny scenario. Who cares if the OP is fake? Look at the discussion it spawned.
5. Haha, another fake post, let’s see what they’re saying about it anyway, lol those silly fakers.

and then everyone fucked

Right. With today’s coverage of events this would have been posted on tiktok and YouTube from 4 different point of views.