Kelvin Yu is a writer on the Fox sitcom “Bob’s Burgers” and co-starred on the Netflix comedy “Master of None.”

Last week, I woke one morning and typed some of my personal thoughts about a joke from the new reboot of “Roseanne” into nine tweets and pressed send.

In the episode, which aired April 3, Roseanne and Dan awaken after passing out on their couch to discover they’ve missed all the TV shows “about Black and Asian families” (a thinly veiled reference to their fellow ABC sitcoms “black-ish” and “Fresh Off the Boat”), to which Roseanne quips: “They’re just like us. There, now you’re all caught up.”

Up until that point, Twitter had been a junk folder for my b-side thoughts and a place I might go to research who bit Beyoncé’s face. That morning, though, I decided to use it differently. I guess I was looking for a place to unpack my tangled discomfort with the subtle yet loaded implications of the joke I had heard the night before.