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.
a huge part of the far side was the novelty of non-human life forms doing human things… bugs, plants, animals… often mundane tasks… we have since been through an entire generation entertained on the base premise of ‘absurdity’. i can imagine this simple humor being unfathomably basic, and nearly unattainable through that lens.