Clever and funny.
In the past, I spent a lot of time thinking about claps on Medium. I wrote my own humorous Clapping Strategies story way back in 2018. It was very different than your. Obviously, claps mean different things to different people.
After much consideration, I eventually decided to go with always clapping 50 times for every story I enjoyed. Not because I wanted anything, but because I no longer wanted to be a writing critic on Medium. I never asked for that job. Nor do I want to have to judge how many claps a story is worth.
If I read a story and enjoy it, it gets 50 claps from me. If I don’t enjoy it, I don’t clap. Simple. I gave this story 50 claps. Take it however you want. 😉😀