The crime: The murder of ironic comedy, and the subsequent beating of its still-writhing corpse with a nail-embedded 2x4.

The culprit: The internet, and braindead college students like you and I.

I've had it up to HERE, people. I'm tired of seeing these unfunny shitheads making money hand over fist while simultaneously winning the adoration of thousands of idiots like you with mindless, stupid "comedy."

xkcd. lolcats. Family Guy (and I, personally, LOVE Family Guy). Snorg Tees, the latest villain (latest being five minutes ago when I clicked on their ad).

These cretins follow a strict three step process to brainwash idiots into being even stupider than they are now. Allow me to spell this process out:

STEP ONE: They tell you that what they do is funny. Your empty mind cannot argue because you are a simpleton.

STEP TWO: They flash in front of your eyes something that is vaguely recognizable. Perhaps it is a Will Farrell movie? Maybe it's a reference to a Mario game?

STEP THREE: Their punchline is just obvious enough for you to realize that it is the punchline, but just stupid enough for you to think it is intellectual, making you feel like you have to laugh if you wish to feel smart.


Hilarity ensues.

Here are some examples of what I have gathered. I defy one of you to tell me that any one of these pictures are funny, clever, or even slightly creative.









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I'd go on, but the site tells me that I've reached my picture limit. I'm sure my point has been made, though.

I know a lot of you like this kind of humor. This is not an attempt to irritate or troll you. This is not firecheetah speaking right now.

This is just a guy. A guy who has an ounce of working brain matter who does not know HOW THE FUCK shit like this can POSSIBLY be laughed at.

This shit is not funny. It's driving me up a wall, because everywhere I turn I'm getting this shit shoved in my face. I mean, just the other day I caught my best friend making a lolcat macro. I can't take it any more.


And the pictures above are not selective. Don't come in here and tell me YOU ONLY PICKED THE UNFUNNY ONES TO MAKE YOUR POINT.

Every single one of those was randomly selected, either by closing my eyes and pointing at the screen, or by clicking on a fortuitously provided RANDOM button.

It's not funny.

I get it. Oh.... oh, dear reader. I get the jokes.

It's still not funny.

And if you happen to think that it is, then YOU'RE WRONG. That's fine. I deal with wrong people all the time. I just want you all to KNOW that you are wrong.

tl;dr: I HATE YOU ALL AND EVERYTHING THAT HUMORS YOU SO MUCH

This is why you were put here. This is your fight.

I have to combat this sinister evil the only way I know how: with lies.

Firecheetah what are you talking about? thats hilarious

firecheetah, telling people they are diseased isn't enough. You need to provide their salvation, their cure.

You must tell them what is funny.

I am compelled to agree based on the evidence presented. And frankly, being bombarded left and right at every site I go to by those goddamned snorg tees ads (and any other 'funny' t-shirt ads for that matter), it fills me with a unique kind of rage, and I'm sure if I could find some way to harness it I could be one of the most powerful men on this planet.

And you people wonder why at random moments I suddenly hate everything in the world.


I mean, I guess I can't talk since I've been targeted as an occasional proponent of lolcats and xkcd, but I do agree that it's pretty much cheap humour targeted at specific audiences that will appreciate it because it's clever and not because it's actually 'funny' (which concept I'm having semantic difficulties with, but that's BLAH BLAH LINGUISTICS FAP FAP to you), and I also agree that every single image presented in your argument is not at all funny, though I can appreciate that first xkcd in a pathetic nerd kind of way because after all it caters to, guess who, pathetic nerds, BUT MY POINT IS that in reality everything truly sucks and we can all go to hell.

QUOTE (Priestess_of_Farore @ Apr 2 2008, 03:23 PM)

And you people wonder why at random moments I suddenly hate everything in the world.