The snark and clapbacks in the comment section of this X trollpost between the Americans and Europeans is so, so good 

https://x.com/cigsmake/status/1915889305077112871?s=46

Honestly this X post is a masterclass in arttrolling. The aesthetic immediately pits against each other the Euros and the Yanks. 

Euros—> we enjoy life by smoking and drinking at noon on a workday, you overworked Yanks! 

Yanks—> that’s why your GDP is going down the shitter! 

An actual work of internet art

I dunno, there's something very kayfabe about this euro vs. yanks thing. I've never met a person IRL who actually gets worked up about this.

Oh it’s def one of those very online people things 👍

Yeah I mean I can respect very online things when they are amplifications of something that at least marginally exists IRL but stuff like this just feels like a psy op. Most Americans love to romanticize the Euro lifestyle, and most Euros envy and admire American prosperity and ingenuity.

There’s def that but I would say there’s a long history of American-Euro trolling and it’s obvs very online now. But used to be reflected in movies like EuroTrip (the train scene with the creepy Italian guy played by Fred Armisen … mi escusi!). Or the dumb Americans (Griswold Family) in European Vacation knocking down Stonehenge with their cars haha

Def online stuff might intensify these things (agree there), though I think (or at least hope) a good number of folks are making light of it all, though obvs some aren’t. Though there’s the other argument that folks nowadays battle out their grievances through online trolling/debate rather than actual in-person squabbles/disputes, and then things just sorta fizzle out (though that’s a little different than what we are discussing here, I guess)

Yeah it might be that when things go online, they tend to suddenly turn more "serious" and people actually adopt identities around these things. Especially when they are adjacent to actual political disputes, they take on more perceived weight.