Once in a while, everyone hears a joke that goes over their heads. Maybe it's a reference we don't understand, or maybe it's just a niche sense of humor we're not too amused by. But while we all have our excuses for not getting a joke, sometimes the joke is so obvious that you'd have to be completely unaware of humor as a concept in order to not get it. And when the joke goes wooooshing so dramatically over someone's head, there's a subreddit for that.

The sub /r/woooosh catalogs some of the most embarrassing moments of people missing a very clear joke. Maybe if they'd moved on when they realized they didn't see the joke, things would be going fine for them, but instead, they posted some complete nonsense in response to the joke, often meaning it in the rudest way possible, which succeeded only in making themselves look much dumber. Here are some of the most awkward interactions where someone missed a clear joke.