I’m usually not in either camp, but sometimes you see a post and you just know the type of people it will attract regardless of OPs intentions.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Funny how most people want their opinions to be respected while not respecting anyone else's.
I mean, what was the post? Some things that are posted are offensive whether or not you intended that and it's not unreasonable for someone to comment on that.
If it's happening to someone so often they need to physically move to a different platform, maybe they should pay more attention to what their saying and the audience you say it to.
Like if I'm with friends and someone makes a dead baby joke, I'd probably laugh, if someone recently had a miscarriage the reaction to that joke will be very different.
I wouldn't expect a lot of 4chan jokes to fly in normal society and if you can't engage with normal society without making 4chan appropriate jokes, maybe you need to work on your conversational skills.
Their mistake was engaging the offended idiot.
Indeed, if someone gets a little butthurt due to a simple joke, it ain't your fault they shoved it up their own asses.
There seems to be this new trend of accounts being created to post this low quality rage bate and other boomer humour at best in this community. This is either a bot, or a really bored loser, either way, the pattern is very obvious (new account that posts 3 comics in a row here and nothing else), and easy to spot and block.
I know this will have little impact, but do yourselves a favour - don't feed the troll.
really bored loser
That's offensive
It obviously hit home with the bored loser, since they picked it for one of their latest account names lmmfao
(seriously though, the mods of this community need to get a grip on this spam)
How is that offensive?
You need to educate yourself on why this is offensive!
My butt hurts!
*bait
Maybe for you. Don't kink shame them they can bate to posts all they like!
It is a fair point
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Imo, anyone that seems to routinely complain about people "taking things too seriously" with their edgy jokes tend to rely more on shock value than actual comedy...
Y'all aren't teenagers any more. Using slurs isn't funny any more.
Well...I suspect a lot of the people who routinely complain about this stuff actually are teenagers.
Ur fucking regarded.
idk that's still funny.
Well fucking regards to you too
The same can be said for a lot of people who complain about lots of things being offensive.
In reality you should seek a middle ground, don't take everything so seriously that it ruins the joy in life... but also don't treat everything (and everyone) as a joke.
To me, the biggest danger is people being “scared to talk about” a subject. This applies both to the comedian thinking of making a joke about X demographic, and also the member of X demographic unsure whether to voice how bad the joke made them feel.
Say the second guy condemns the comedian with an ultimate mic drop moment, so the comedian just shuts up and only talks the subject with an echo chamber of bigots who’ve had similar experiences.
Or, the second guy shuts up forever, and when the first guy runs for president on a platform of stopping the orphan crushing machine, the second guy thinks “Man, fuck that guy” and votes against him.
There’s definitely a much better median where they bring up the discontent in a gentle prompt - only escalating if they’re ignored. It takes two though, and the comedian would have to be okay with saying “Okay, I apologize.” That part is hard; with so much anonymous interaction now it feels rare for anyone to humbly admit fault.
Eh. People should take things as seriously as they feel they should. A lot of actually important shit, that challenges real and significant injustices, gets shut down with "don't take things so seriously". We don't need to turn discussing our feelings about the world into an "I'm so chill" competition.
But also, people need to understand - on both sides of the utterance - that "I find this offensive" is an informational statement, not a demand for action. If I find something you've said offensive, that's information that is now yours to weigh as you please. If you don't care to understand why, or decide that my feelings don't outweigh whatever else you're trying to do, then you're now making that decision with a little bit of extra feedback.
Getting defensive about someone not liking what you've done is on you.
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Man, this reminds me so much of a recent submission I made. The amount of BS text certain "users" can write and the extents they will go through to it for something relatively harmless is wild, specially when they are the sort to make wild unproven accusations.
"Seek offence and you shall find it"
Naaah fam, if you get hurt it's your choice to hurt back.
Offense is taken, not given.
This
This reminds me of people who comment, say on video clips of older movies and television, "you can't make stuff like this anymore." Just an unhelpful take on the situation. One that takes no effort to come by. Regurgitation at best.
It's not that comments are supposed to be original or something. Sometimes it's just to engage with the YouTuber or the community or just to boost the algorithm. If you're looking for good content on YouTube, watch the videos instead
Well done edgy humor always has its place. Its always sunny is plenty edgy, moreso than anything mainstream from any time prior, and extremely popular. The problem with people who make those comments is they could have NEVER made anything good, theyre uncreative and unthinking, and so they get locked into an outdated mentality and their humor never develops past whatever they found funny in their formative years. Because some things are edgy AND good they mistake being edgy for automatically being good.
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this doesn't say anything
This curiously says a lot about our current social sphere.
like what
Like it's all just a ego contest and in the end it doesn't really matter who's right and who's wrong, in the end all that matters is that one or the other will get enough social pressure to make the other one shut up.
In this day and age, people argue over everything from the most basic stuff all the way to the most ridiculous stuff
is that in the comic though or are you projecting your existing opinion on the vague topic of online arguments? does the comic say all arguments are bad? I is discussing the offensiveness of a joke bad? is it bad when to many people argue at once?
doesn't seem like there's much of anything deeper than "what's the deal with airline food?" type material that expects the audience to make the statement in their mind than actually saying anything itself.
It is about arguing culture.
No it's not!
That's not an argument, it's just contradiction
No it isn't
If that's from monty python then you are right. Marvelous piece.
- No it isn't.
- No I'm not.
- No it isn't.
(yes to all three, actually)
I see what you did there
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Oh man there was an entire south park episode about this...
Even triggering arguments to build up hype on socials. Can't find the episode, but it mentioned arguing or disagreeing with someone while aiming for a 3rd person to jump in overreacting and it spreads.
Edit: found it
Season 20 finale, 2010, featuring Elon musk...
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/The_End_of_Serialization_as_We_Know_It/Script
It's a way in which one person can create a massive reaction on the Internet. Look, person A trolls person B, but it's not about person B, the troll is trying to push buttons to try and get a reaction from hundreds, eventually creating person C, whose overreaction and self righteousness will elicit a reaction from persons D through F, who weren't trolls but can't help rip on person C.
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It de-legitimizes actual debate about issues with racism, homophobia, sexism, etc
When you just lump in everything that is legitimate debate along with batshit crazy stuff, then its far easier to just to dismiss it all and keep acting like a racist, homophobic, sexist ignorant jerk.
If you can't tell what is offensive and what isn't ... it's not a problem with the comic, it might have something more to do with you.
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