I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a different time period or whether my sense of humor is just misaligned, or if it’s just that I don’t have the background necessary, but I don’t understand shit.
I don’t get any of the jokes, some are just completely undecipherable, and some comics just leave me feeling stupid as hell.
How do you guys understand any of this? What do the user demographics of this community look like?
Is this a government psyop? Are these comics evidence trails to hire super smart cryptography detectives like Cicada 3301? Are they memetic triggers for activating sleeper agents? To be honest I think I’d feel better if it was.
They’re not really “jokes” as in laugh-out-loud. It’s more “make me roll my eyes and snicker” kinda stuff. I love TFS because it pairs uncomfortable subjects with things uncomfortable subjects “shouldn’t” be paired with.
It plays with the dichotomy if the familiar vs. the absurd. It diffuses the seriousness of a situation by inserting something absurd…as if the absurd thing is normal.
It’s an exercise in stretching your sense of the absurd.
Also kinda like that advice when you meet someone intimidating…“just think of them on the toilet”.
I think they’re better enjoyed in the newspaper, when you don’t have to see multiple and understand none like on an internet forum. That way you can just be like ‘eh, better luck next week’.