This was the first thing that popped into my head, but it felt gratuitously negative despite being a reference to a joke.

That makes me wonder if I'm interpreting the guidelines correctly

To me the previous comment sounded gratuitously hilarious, in a positive sense. Not mean, just poking fun.

This reply may not have appeared at first as constructive but it actually revealed salient information about the article. It brought attention to the fact that the movement is relatively small. You also succeeded to do that with humor -- no easy feat.