Watch and learn kids. This is how misinformation works. It also works the same for real news too, so let's break this down.
1. Somebody plants the seed of misinformation. Sometimes it's a unintentional. Sometimes it's planned. In this case it's a joke by "mr__person__"
3. Final step. Somebody new sees one of the posts and doesn't bother reading the whole story. They just look at the screenshot or in the case of news, the headline.
Then they post something like this.
1. Somebody plants the seed of misinformation. Sometimes it's a unintentional. Sometimes it's planned. In this case it's a joke by "mr__person__"
2. People spread that "seed", but now the context gets partially lost. It makes it harder to find the truth simply because it takes more time to read it all and to find the source of the information. In this case it's people replying to that post and playing along, but in case of news it's new articles being written about the thing, people sharing it on social media etc.You must've missed it. Got the screenshot right here:
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Totally didn't make this in MS Paint
3. Final step. Somebody new sees one of the posts and doesn't bother reading the whole story. They just look at the screenshot or in the case of news, the headline.
Then they post something like this.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk and make sure to always read the whole story to not appear dumb on the internet!Where does it say the game and/or mods were going to be shut down though?
All I see is a dev being tired of stupid/lazy people and telling them off.