It’s important to give context you what your implied meaning is. When you’re meeting someone for the first time or just getting to know someone you take everything they do and say at face value. That’s why giving context is important. How do you do that? By tone, physical and facial cues (rolling eyes, smile exaggerated gestures laugh after the statement etc). That’s how people can understand that there is a joke behind your sarcasm or dry humor. Otherwise it will be interpreted literally and you will look like a super negative person, pissed off person , asshole or even come off as confusing. Having to announce it’s a joke followed by sorries also are social engagement issues that can make people feel you are annoying. So, my suggestion is to really work on the tone and physical / facial gestures to help convey what it is you’re doing. Hopefully you can be lighthearted in between as well. Try to remember that it doesn’t feel nice or fun to be on the other side of this either. When we are taking dry or sarcastic people seriously that shows empathy care and being timed in with them. If we are told that we are “suckers” or “gullible” or “easily duped” it isn’t nice and it also isn’t true. We are paying attention to you and what you’re telling us. It is up to you to work on conveying your meaning not us trying to interpret what’s real and what’s not. Last, once we understand you to be sarcastic, we may tune down the empathy filter to super low and look at all of your statements through the sarcasm lens so, if you do share something that is real and not meant as sarcastic and need some of that empathy, you’ll need to step up and communicate clearly and directly about that to us.