When the Vietnam futsal team won 4-0 against the Australian team in the third-place match of the 2026 Asian Championship, some people reversed the story to talk about logic. That Vietnam futsal lost 2-4 to Thailand futsal was reasonable, then Australia futsal lost 3-4 to Thailand futsal showed their strength, but then lost heavily to Vietnam futsal.
So what are we aiming for? Bridge in football? Is it irony? Or simply a humorous status posted on social media with the aim of increasing interaction?
Perhaps, we should try to be more humorous. To mitigate the so-called delusion. Why? Let's take the example of the Vietnam U20 women's team winning the right to enter the quarter-finals of the AFC U20 Women's Championship, facing the Japan U20 women's team. Understanding the strength and level difference, but the story is still "only one match away from the World Cup ticket". Pulling pride, spirit and will into the story, to feel like cheering, but in reality it is ridiculously inflated. Or in other words, it is flattery to the point of being unacceptable.
Actually, it's not funny at all. And even if the purpose is humor, be careful because modern humor is different from the old days. In the old days, humor that created laughter was not simply for entertainment. It was the laughter of intelligence, of criticism. Trang Quynh teased officials, teased the king, reversed the situation with intelligence and wit. The listener laughed, but after the laughter was a nod. It turned out that what seemed like a joke was real.
But now, society still has laughter, but the way people laugh is different. Deep layers are easily inferred, so that a joke can be interpreted successfully. A gentle sarcasm can be attributed to "disrespect". It is not difficult to recognize that social networks have changed the way people perceive humor. There, everything is pulled to two extremes. Either praise, or criticism. Either right, or wrong. There is no longer much space for subtlety.
And so, instead of laughing at each other, people switch to "scrutinizing". People no longer look for meaning behind, but look at the mistake right on the surface. So, laughing, but it's a feeling of incomprehensible before illusions, itching before unintelligible flattery.
