This Troper objects to Poe's Law: it implies that adding the smiley or the blatant display of humor will ''make people stop treating it as real''. This Troper is ''physically incapable'' of creating any sort of satire that isn't mistaken for the real thing on internet forums. Mind, when he makes them, he tends to put an extremely visible "WARNING: SATIRE WITHIN!!!" line in the topic title and makes remarks like "I couldn't think of anything funny to say about this part but I had to include it for completeness." Most people recognize the parodies for what they are, but inevitably, even with disclaimers, one or two people will act, with no indication of irony, as though This Troper actually holds the views stated.

Some of them could be fellow Poes, just playing along for lulz and confusion.

This troper knows from experience that yes, some people are immune even to smilies and blatant displays of humour. Presumably they assume you're just "softening the blow" of your over-the-top statement in traditional patronising internet preacher style (even though the smilies used are rarely appropriate for that situation). The more fellow Poes that join in, the more likely that some poor newbie who doesn't know you well enough to know your humour style will think you're serious, even if the other Poes are even more over the top than you.

My theory is that your disclaimer has to be at least as long as your joke. Of course by then no one is willing to read the joke and you're back to square one.

Is this what happens to me when I tell Jewish jokes?

This troper's old high school friend found (and copied down to show to others) a poem of sorts written on a school desk that was either a stealth parody of angsty high school poetry, or just a ridiculously incoherent example thereof. I wish I could remember more of it, but I do know it involved the narrator accusing his ex-girlfriend of being a Nazi, and ended on a cautiously optimistic note: "Life is the bad, but it could be the worse".

After years of constant joking, this troper found out that most people think she's a very serious and formal person. Guess why.

This troper's sense of humor tends to be limited to this. If anyone outside of his circle of friends saw his stuff (and knew it was due in part to NWordPrivileges about the groups he's in), they'd probably take it seriously- probably because, outside of his circle of friends, he's known as a blowhard.

Almost all of my humor is StealthParody. It's astounding, even people who've known me for ''years'' can't tell when I'm kidding and when I'm serious.

This troper at one time wrote a (het)slash fic that showed what a slash fic about an AxeCrazy, mind-raping, probably necrophiliac character would be like ''without'' the CharacterDerailment (No sexually explicit acts). After the first response was a compliment, the summary was edited to make clear the already strongly implied messagebrief thanks to the character limit, but this is still an exaggeration: "THIS IS SATIRE, NOW SHUT UP GORN FANS".

This troper writes deliberately ridiculous fanfiction for the HarryPotter and Literature/{{Twilight}} fandoms, both of which are notoriously rife with FanDumb. (In reality, she is a genuine fan of HarryPotter. Twilight, not so much.) However, her parodies are apparently ''too'' stealthy--she has received kind, well-intentioned multi-paragraph reviews that completely missed the point. She hasn't quite got the heart to correct them. Her profile is here, in case anyone wants to take a look.

This troper wrote up a parody news article on spoof website Uncycylopedia, claiming that a team of Cambridge scientists led by Dr. John Cleese had objectively proven that Americans are intellectually inferior to other human beings, and submitted it to poll website and home of politically-charged, rage-and-death-threat-infused, internet based discussion Sodahead.com. In a twist of self-verification, the ratio of comments that noticed the source to comments of pure, flaming, patriotic hatred was about 1:50.

This troper from Toronto wrote a geography paper about my impressions of Japan. I based my research upon anime comedies like Ranma 1/2. I thought it was pretty obvious my paper was a joke, I mentioned that "japanese teens like running on rooftops of houses." I When we got our papers back, the instructor informed me in front of the class that my paper was "racist."

In sophomore ( second year of high school) health this troper was assigned a project on dangerous and addictive chemicals. Considering I hated the class and the teacher with a fiery passion I did the only logical thing and based my entire project on Di-hydrogen Monoxide. No one figured it out and the teacher gave me an A+ on the project.

This troper once had to write an argumentative essay about a subject. He chose abortion, and proceeded to write a stealth parody on extreme right-wing pro-lifers. And it worked!