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by thix0tr0pic 4446 days ago
A common method to avoid interfering with the statement you're trying to make is to mash as many hashtags in as possible after the fact.
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Can you imagine that, though?

"The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease #joke #black humour #funny #comedy"

You'd look like a colossal ass if you did that.

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.