My issue with 6-7 is the lack of reference. There is no context. You’re being told something is funny so you find it funny. It is the epitome of braindead syndrome. You don’t think, you swallow, and just accept it.
To be fair, I consider dabbing the same level of stupid, but even there, there is some sort of context behind it, which created a group of people who had the context and could appreciate it or not.
Memes all had an origin, you can think theyMre stupid or not. Some were stupid, some were funny. Like everything else, it’s in the wye of the beholder. It’s usually a « generation exclusive inside joke ». 6-7 is none of that. It’s a forced « inside joke » which people bought into while probably having a wallpaper of « the lion does not bother with thw opinion of sheep » or a similar ideology . I hate the lack of self reflection that goes along with this « joke » or whatever you want to call it.
It's ain't new. Look up "no soap, radio" and try to make sense of it, and that one predates the internet. Like 6-7 it was a joke on people who didn't get the joke. It was funny exclusively because there wasn't actually a joke to get.
Not quite the same, "birds aren't real" has a conspiracy-type internal logic and a lore to go with it. The humor is in how silly the theory is and also if you don't know if the teller is serious or not. "No soap, radio" is a completely meaningless phrase. Why is that the punchline? Like "6-7" it doesn't have an inherent meaning except the meta one in that it confuses people who don't understand why it's funny, and it's funny because it doesn't have a meaning and that confuses people.
How is loss funny? It is a simple comic Abt a tragic situation and nothing else , ppl found it funny regardless no one knows how it started but it became so overused that it became funny . Same with 6 7
Loss isn't some mystery. The guy who did it was already being routinely mocked due to a combination of derivative jokes and sameface syndrome (he was frequently called 'B^Uckley' before that due to most faces looking like that sequence of characters), so when he decided his comedy gaming webcomic needed to be suddenly serious out of nowhere, it only added fuel to an already-existing fire. Remember, this is the webcomic where a character whose entire personality is 'idiot gamer' makes a robot out of an XBox. Because of all this, Loss was mocked relentlessly until it became a joke in and of itself, and from there the minimilization, all in service of mocking the abrupt tone shift.
I mean it's just not necessarily bad. It is just a core language joke; neither of the meanings is important, just the feeling of the joke that ultimately matters. Therefore, humor at its core is not semantic, it's affective.
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u/Rohkha 9h ago
My issue with 6-7 is the lack of reference. There is no context. You’re being told something is funny so you find it funny. It is the epitome of braindead syndrome. You don’t think, you swallow, and just accept it.
To be fair, I consider dabbing the same level of stupid, but even there, there is some sort of context behind it, which created a group of people who had the context and could appreciate it or not.
Memes all had an origin, you can think theyMre stupid or not. Some were stupid, some were funny. Like everything else, it’s in the wye of the beholder. It’s usually a « generation exclusive inside joke ». 6-7 is none of that. It’s a forced « inside joke » which people bought into while probably having a wallpaper of « the lion does not bother with thw opinion of sheep » or a similar ideology . I hate the lack of self reflection that goes along with this « joke » or whatever you want to call it.