Yeah I’m all for some dark humor, but can we not make this Reddit 2.0 or whatever?
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Dark humor is humor generated from your own pain.
Edgy humor is humor generated from the pain of others.
The first one is funny, the second is boring and shitty
Eh. I'd say there's exceptions. Maybe more to the point of "Don't Punch Down"?
I can laugh all day at the rich/privileged suffering the consequences of their own mistakes.
"Don't Puch down" is good rule to live by.
Maybe the rich/privileged are controlling/influencing so much of our lifes that this counts as your own pain.
Not certain the rich feel pain the same way, but you're right. Punching up has value and often is the right thing to do
I feel that privilege is a concept that should be applied to classes, not individuals. You can't just judge someone as privileged based on one aspect of their life.
The whole "punching up" concept just leads to it being accepted to make misogynistic jokes at white women, ablist and body-shaming jokes at "creepy" men, racist jokes at wealthy Asians, and so on.
Rather, I think the intent behind the joke, and the consequences of the stereotypes it reinforces, is what should be examined rather than the demographic on the receiving end.
I think its more the way humor is used/intended.
The problem is that people use humor as a weapon. If you fall those people point a finger at you and laugh while calling you an idiot.
Others use it as a way to deal with stuff or in general just see it as something to make light of a situation. Those people would also laugh but they would come to your help, ask if everything is alright and would help you up. While knowing that everybody falls down sometimes and that it can funny.
Everything can be funny with the right people and that helps to cope.
Dark humor is good as long as it's actually dark humor. As much as I hated the power mods of Reddit, Awkwardtheturtle's constant trolling of the dark humor sub was fucking hilarious. He'd throw random rules on posting and commenting that would take off most comments and posts by default. Seeing those immature assholes lose their shit over not being able to be as racist is hilarious.
Redditor "You like dark humor?"
Me "Yeah sure I guess"
Redditor "I LIKE RAPING BABIES AND MURDERING MINORITIES! I ALSO BEAT MY WIFE! PLEASE LAUGH!"
Your example has the dark, but none of the humor.
Did I just have a very different Reddit experience to everyone else or is this a massive circle jerk?
Definitely a circlejerk outside of specific subs
I’m sure there’s an instance for that
Exploding heads...
It's fine. There's still plenty of sexism. Reddit people love that. 😎
Man I really miss the hide button to keep troll bait shit like this here out of my feed.
Dark Humor and racism are different things. But many don't get that (in both directions)
Hey now....
You're a rock star
Get the show on
Get paid.
This is a blatant exageration.
Just... better
The admins and moderators removed my comments. Am I so racist? No. It's the admins who are wrong
Jokes with no suffering are not jokes but too developed piles of shit.
Spot on
Many people are saying this LMAO.
Hey, I'm from Reddit and I'm not like that. :/
Edit: Meant to say from Reddit, not a Reddit. Lol.
You mean you used to be?
Yeah, that. Mis-typed is all.
as a racer I'm really offended by this post
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