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Explanation
The Joke
A man is complaining about a media personality who makes his entire living by infuriating people, and notes that "now he's making me angry." The comic then shows a progression: the man declares he'll "just ignore" the provocative content, but we see a montage of his entire life passing by -- getting coffee, pastry, and tea, going through major life events (appears to be a wedding under an arch), and eventually his gravestone reads "Here lies Steve Jones. Never clicked that link."
The joke is that the man's strategy for dealing with rage-bait media was simply to never engage with it for his entire life. What seems like a small, momentary decision ("I'll just ignore it") becomes his defining life achievement, the single most notable thing about him -- so much so that it's engraved on his tombstone.
The Humor
The comic satirizes the modern attention economy where media personalities deliberately provoke outrage to generate clicks and engagement. The humor comes from the absurd escalation: avoiding one rage-bait link becomes a lifelong, Herculean achievement worthy of memorializing on a gravestone. It simultaneously mocks how difficult it actually is for people to resist engaging with outrage content and suggests that the truly heroic act in the internet age is simply not clicking. The mundane progression of an entire life reduced to this one accomplishment is both funny and a pointed commentary on how much mental energy outrage media consumes.