Well the meme I saw (idk if you remember it, it was a meme with spongebob full of holes) was really about both.
But I suppose you’d say jokes about breaking out the guillotines and “eating the rich” is also about America and it’s priorities. My point is it clearly doesn’t matter how dark/cringey/unfunny those jokes are, people will upvote them because it goes with the culture of this site. People agree with the general point so they will upvote it. Whereas if I make a darker meme about a miscarriage people are booty hurt about it.
I mean we’re kind of talking about two things here. We are talking about our own philosophies about comedy, and we are also talking about the general culture of the site. I think we’re both getting a little twisted up in the Venn diagram, but they are definitely very distinct.
As far as the culture of the site goes: sure, of course it is inconsistent with some trends holding. There are a lot of people here, different people are on a different times, etc. There isn’t a whole lot we can do about it.
As far as the larger discussion about comedy, it’s just boils down to punching up vs punching down, and who is the subject of your critique. Could you say the SpongeBob thing was tasteless? Sure. But again, it’s not really “ha ha kids are dead.“ I think you would have to look into some pretty dark corners of the Internet to find that (like anti-natalist groups). The general sentiment is “America doesn’t care about children. They care about guns.“
Well the meme I saw (idk if you remember it, it was a meme with spongebob full of holes) was really about both.
But I suppose you’d say jokes about breaking out the guillotines and “eating the rich” is also about America and it’s priorities. My point is it clearly doesn’t matter how dark/cringey/unfunny those jokes are, people will upvote them because it goes with the culture of this site. People agree with the general point so they will upvote it. Whereas if I make a darker meme about a miscarriage people are booty hurt about it.
I mean we’re kind of talking about two things here. We are talking about our own philosophies about comedy, and we are also talking about the general culture of the site. I think we’re both getting a little twisted up in the Venn diagram, but they are definitely very distinct.
As far as the culture of the site goes: sure, of course it is inconsistent with some trends holding. There are a lot of people here, different people are on a different times, etc. There isn’t a whole lot we can do about it.
As far as the larger discussion about comedy, it’s just boils down to punching up vs punching down, and who is the subject of your critique. Could you say the SpongeBob thing was tasteless? Sure. But again, it’s not really “ha ha kids are dead.“ I think you would have to look into some pretty dark corners of the Internet to find that (like anti-natalist groups). The general sentiment is “America doesn’t care about children. They care about guns.“
Yeah I agree with what you wrote here. Sorry if I seem incoherent, I’m replying to different people and its hard to keep track.