A fictional story about a husband/father being cruel to his family until they leave doesn’t exactly seem like fun entertainment to me 😅
4chan’s idea of a joke tends to involve some kind of suffering or cruelty, I don’t really get the appeal. It shows up on my feed and I can’t help but think “someone wants to read this sort of thing…?”
At least the one about the lady pissing herself and jumping in a canal or whatever was kinda silly and just a story about doing something dumb
It’s creative writing with a subversion of expectations. You expect anon to be in a public gym with a random uncontrolled child, not at home with his own child. You side with him until the very end. The whiplash is the joke, not child cruelty.
Yeah, I understand that it’s a subversion of what’s expected, it’s just also depressing
“The joke is that you thought it was just a weird interaction with strangers, but he’s actually being shitty father and abusive husband!” doesn’t really work for me 🤷🏻 I get why it’s funny to other people, I just can’t really relate, and so much of 4chan humor has that same shared thread of being an asshole, life being a bleak existence, or making up a strawman to attack a particular population. It’s just kinda depressing to me :/
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
How is that your takeaway from this entertaining fabrication?
B312@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You forgot to mention that the fabrication is gay
sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is it gay if he has wife and children?
sidekickplayah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s the fake part. The gay part is: why is he lifting? Wanna look good for the men or some other gay shit?
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He left her for another man (his spotter)
HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And also fake.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A fictional story about a husband/father being cruel to his family until they leave doesn’t exactly seem like fun entertainment to me 😅
4chan’s idea of a joke tends to involve some kind of suffering or cruelty, I don’t really get the appeal. It shows up on my feed and I can’t help but think “someone wants to read this sort of thing…?”
At least the one about the lady pissing herself and jumping in a canal or whatever was kinda silly and just a story about doing something dumb
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s creative writing with a subversion of expectations. You expect anon to be in a public gym with a random uncontrolled child, not at home with his own child. You side with him until the very end. The whiplash is the joke, not child cruelty.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I understand that it’s a subversion of what’s expected, it’s just also depressing
“The joke is that you thought it was just a weird interaction with strangers, but he’s actually being shitty father and abusive husband!” doesn’t really work for me 🤷🏻 I get why it’s funny to other people, I just can’t really relate, and so much of 4chan humor has that same shared thread of being an asshole, life being a bleak existence, or making up a strawman to attack a particular population. It’s just kinda depressing to me :/