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Frankly, some of it is push back against busy-bodies who seem to be totally incapable of parsing the concept that the Internet isn't some sort of bastion of absolute truth. It's sarcasm that idiots take far too seriously. More than a little is because certain autocratic wanna-bees seem to desire to use the Internet to intrude upon people's most private thoughts and moments.
But yes, explain it all away as some sort of nefarious plot to justify even further intrusions into people's lives.
Edit: Since the page was bugging out, in reply too: "You are who you pretend to be."
I'm not talking about "pretending" to be anything. I'm talking about screwing with overly serious idiots who can't comprehend that ordinary human conversations aren't logic problems to be solved, to the point where they call everything that isn't a dispassionate recitation of official statistics to be a conspiracy theory. If you think sarcasm is 'pretending' to be something else, then you fail to grasp the very basics of human communication, and frankly it feels like you're being deliberately obtuse about it.
You are who you pretend to be.