Comment on Anon works out
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoA 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 :/
mriormro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
May I ask why you’re on greentext? It’s literally just 4chan screenshots and if you know that kind of humor doesn’t sit well with you then it might be better to avoid it.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s on the front page pretty often, as it seems like one of the larger communities
I’ll probably end up blocking it as the other reply mentioned, but I don’t usually like doing that. It’s also a bummer cause occasionally something really lovely gets produced by 4chan, you just have to wade through a lot of bleakness before you find it, it would seem
I don’t mean to disparage others their choice or preferences, just expressing I don’t really understand them
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
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Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I probably will at some point, it’s a shame though cause every once in a while something really fun or charming comes out of the greentext communities or reddit or lemmy. I don’t meant to condemn folks for their choice or preferences, just express that I can’t relate to them
Hope you have a good one :)