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The joke is about a developer feeling secretly superior because they know a simple shortcut: some Reddit subreddit pages can be accessed as JSON by adding `.json` to the URL.While everyone else overcomplicates things with APIs or web scraping, he is standing alone at the party thinking about this obscure technical trick.

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