When I saw something different in her eyes...

This was the kind of joke I used to post on Facebook back around 2012. I'm not very proud of them, but that was the vibe: fake suspense, a dumb punchline, and those famous ellipses to force you to hit "see more."

The ellipses were a classic trick: you'd put ... .. . right before the punchline so the Facebook algorithm would cut off the post and the reader had to expand it. It worked.

This is what it looked like:

Basically, suspense jokes that ended in nothing. This was the humor of a 15-year-old kid with internet access.