You did a fact check on a joke? What’s next, fact checking Babylon Bee articles?
Unfortunately there is someone sitting in their basement that has already retransmitted the original comment post as proof of a hoax "From highly placed anonymous sources".
You would be surprised at the number of people who think (a) the space program is a hoax; (b) the South Pole is a hoax; and (c) the earth is really flat.