The bottom image is pretty much why it's funny to me.

Apparently for dudes who've got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, "someone who's wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they're smarter than you" is their kryptonite.

Tons of people keep trying to convince him even though he's just saying "no you're wrong" over and over again.

The point is that when you're an adult and talking to a child, you can't talk to them like an adult. When you're dealing with someone without the faculties or desire to engage in informed debate, just save your breath.

Actually incredibly instructive to US readers at the moment given our horrific levels of education and high levels of misinformation and bias in media.

His trolling is top notch, like the smoothness of a sharks skin.

His trolling is obvious, yet so many people take it seriously.

It brings engagement to his page.

They're actually quite thin, like a shark's smooth skin.

It's funnier this way.

After a commentor stated that Planned Parenthood only uses a tiny bit of their budget for abortions, I linked this:

https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640

The number of lemmings who thought I was serious... jesus.

I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.

/s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.

Smuuth like your brane?

Cunningham's Law states "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

You forgot one more point:

3. Sharks are smooth.

Because it is a comedic reflection of what is happening right now with certain people insisting misinformation is fact and true despite all evidence to the contrary. (Eg: trump won, vaccines kill, ETc.)

Now your brain is smooth as a shark, as they say

I'm not sure what you mean by "dysfunctional autism" exactly, but this is a known trait of many autistic people. They often fail to pick up on social cues that most other people take for granted. It's just because their brain works differently, they tend to take people at face value. And unlike what some have professed to believe here, their desire to explain or correct you does not come from a desire to "be the smartest person in the room", but rather it's their way of helping. They like to have accurate information, so they assume others do too. So yes, combine these two traits with a person who like to screw with them and you get conversations like this, which unfortunately amounts to a pretty nasty form of teasing.

Because apparently for dudes who've got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, "someone who's wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they're smarter than you" is their kryptonite. You can play dumb on almost any subject and their ego, their staunch belief that the masses are so far below them, will blind them to the fact that you're just fucking with them, and as long as you don't admit you're fucking with them or acknowledge that there's anything Off about what you're saying, they won't be able to stop themselves trying to get you to Respect Their Authority, and they won't be able to see that will literally never happen.

I don't know what you're talking about buddy, shark skin is slick and smooth for hydrodynamic porpoises.

No you were probably feeling the Sandpaper Shark, which is actually a species of fish, not shark. Sharks are smooth.

You're mistaken. Shark skin is known for its smoothness when rubbed from any angle.