The post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.

The misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).

No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.

Sure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people.

What's robotic ink?

Probably robotic ilk using the more common modern usage of ilk - https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ilk

.. along with an unintended cool in-joke about how dogs can't type.

Yeah, at first I thought it was 'ilk', but then I suspected that there was yet another exclusionary in-joke hidden somewhere.

Ah I missed that. Fair enough then.

Sorry, I didn’t get the reference. I’m a moron. My bad.

Don't worry, just for fun.

I'm pretty certain that's a quote from Bandit.

Ah fair enough.