🤣🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ you stomped all over THAT punchline, Walter.

I agree that it's lazy. I'm not sure it's worth that much ire. I've always seen the "?" of the world as a puzzled expression, shorthand for an inarticulate "Huh?" An admission that words fail the writer utterly.

But to be fair, when someone is depressed, words may feel like a Herculean effort. Perhaps they came to the article hoping for help or insight, didn't find it, and couldn't muster the energy for more than a "?" and assumed you'd get it.

Or not. I hope you replied to them with a link to this post! Maybe they'll elaborate.