For some but I find them super hard to use well and remain funny (funny to me at least). Lame example of hashtag use:
> #baseball combines the two things Americans love most: Perfect lawns and arguments in hindsight about the decisions that professionals make.
I wrote this, but think it's funnier without the hashtag.
With many more I can think of things that I considered really funny, but had no conceivable way of adding hashtags without taking away from the brevity:
> I propose we start calling snow plow guys "Storm Troopers"
> The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease.
Where could I hashtag those up without making them considerably less funny? I think the brevity is required for maximum "impact", and I don't wanna detract by putting a hashtag in the middle, because its the sentence equivalent of stressing a syllable awkwardly.
Some people on Twitter have turned this awkward word-stressing into an art. Comedian Rob Delaney comes to mind as an expert in maximizing the awkwardness of it.
That is how twitter jokes look. It is part and parcel of the medium. Better to have the joke look like a twitter joke and get read by an audience, than to make it pure and read by nobody. Really, the hashtags are no more out of place than a smiley face on an email.
I don't use Twitter, but based on what I see on Instagram, I agree with the parent that those people look like asses. It comes off as whoring for followers, and a bit desperate.
I think it's different, however, if there are a few hashtags at the end which in themselves are jokes or metajokes and that add to the cleverness of the post, in the same way that XKCD alt-text does. A string of simple categories (#joke #jokes #funny #comedy) is just annoying.
And yet, many popular users do exactly that. I'm a huge proponent of keeping metadata, which is what hashtags are, out of the data. It sucks but, making your message "discoverable" pollutes your message.
> #baseball combines the two things Americans love most: Perfect lawns and arguments in hindsight about the decisions that professionals make.
I wrote this, but think it's funnier without the hashtag.
With many more I can think of things that I considered really funny, but had no conceivable way of adding hashtags without taking away from the brevity:
> I propose we start calling snow plow guys "Storm Troopers"
> The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease.
Where could I hashtag those up without making them considerably less funny? I think the brevity is required for maximum "impact", and I don't wanna detract by putting a hashtag in the middle, because its the sentence equivalent of stressing a syllable awkwardly.
Some people on Twitter have turned this awkward word-stressing into an art. Comedian Rob Delaney comes to mind as an expert in maximizing the awkwardness of it.