[xapata]

If the author wrote, "This is satire," it'd ruin the satire.

[banish-m4]

Poe's law. This doesn't seem completely absurd because there are plenty of jerks on planes who don't dim excessively-bright screens much less reduce the volume of crap music.

[TechDebtDevin]

I've flown close to a million miles and can't recall a single time someone played music out of their speakers.

[sghiassy]

If you have to explain that it’s a joke, then it wasn’t funny

[sfilmeyer]

What's the bar, though? If out of a million people reading a joke, 80% find it funny, 20% find it meh, and one solitary person needs the joke explained to them, I think it's still fair to call it a funny joke. There are multiple comments in this thread missing the satire so it's obvious the percentage is a bit higher than that, but I'd wager the majority of people didn't need the joke explained to them.

[cmcaleer]

To you.

[mrguyorama]

This doesn't apply to satire. Your lack of media literacy is not evidence of bad satire.

[j0hnyl]

It was obviously a joke, and not a bad one.