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>>imicha+(OP)
I love Wikipedia, but Wikimedia does not need your donations at all, as much as its misleading ads try to convince you it's on the brink of death.

As far as this particular article goes, it just comes off as kind of cringeworthy to me. This is a style of internet humor that went out of fashion about 10 years ago.

>>marcel+09
> This is a style of internet humor that went out of fashion about 10 years ago.

You know what else has happened in the last 10 years? People got stupid.

Between 2017 and 2023, the percentage of U.S. adults at the lowest levels of illiteracy increased from 19% to 28%. Some studies show that the US's peak literacy was around 2015 and has been decreasing ever since.

>>mapont+og
How? How do 28% of people not know how to read?

>>unethi+Sh
It'll be below PIAAC level 1 or similar. Even below that level many people can read simple text and extract basic information.

Perhaps it also includes people who can read other languages, but not very well in English.