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it's perfectly comprehensible to me
someone's girlfriend sits on her phone 24/7, but somehow consistently fails to pick up a call when her partner calls to double check something on the grocery list, with the joke being that her phone disappears into a black hole when that happens
If the joke relies on that much of an assumption about a fringe scenario, then that context should have been provided within the joke. For example, the appositive “her” has no reference noun and therein no information about her connection to the joketeller.
In a similar vein of lacking context, can you explain this joke?
"A dog walks into a tavern and says, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'."
the context is the real life situation that OP experiences, i also have experienced that and find the joke funny, but it doesn't have to be funny to everyone. you are simply not the target audience
I’d understand the scenario and perhaps even find it funny if the joke-teller were to provide the essential context
not everything is made for you
Yes, that’s why the first thing I said was asking if it was meant to be comprehensible because I could not parse a clear and singular intent behind it for reasons I’ve already mentioned. “Incomprehensible” is a genre of media, especially for TikTok.