Fun fact: Editors are usually also people. Except for that one dog I met during a cold winter's day in 1987 in a run-down London pub.

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incognito124 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

On the internet, no one knows you're an editor

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scorpionfeet 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can you explain the reference? It whooshed me.

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shafyy 2 days ago | parent [-]

Haha, no reference. I just made something up and tried to be funny.

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Mentlo 2 days ago | parent [-]

I tried figuring out the reference with Gemini, and it said this:

The immediate reply to that comment is: "On the internet, no one knows you're an editor." This is a direct play on the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." By setting the anecdote in 1987 (a few years before the World Wide Web was publicly available), the commenter is implying that back in the analog days, if a dog wanted to be a writer or an editor, they couldn't hide behind a screen—they had to sit in a smoky London pub and do business face-to-face.

Which makes a lot of sense actually. I would imagine that's what the replier to you thought you meant.

	▲	shafyy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hahaha great story. But that's not what I had I thought about at all.

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taneliv 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

No way, bro! I'm no longer an editor, though.