yeah seems like a lot of the people who first got propelled to (niche) fame in this scene in the mid 2010s know the ride's over and are either pivoting to more conventional forms of social climbing or slithering back into the shadows. they've lost their touch, or ability to project the illusion of having a touch.It's lost a little juice hasn't it? Over the past year I've seen some of my non online friends post red scare adjacent content which is a sure sign of the end. It's nearly Old Media at this point
What is the background imageI don't get the joke here... explain it to me Climaxer?
The phrase "It's finally September, y'all :leaf:" indicates a certain sanguine vacuity, here associable with the upper-middle-class American suburban female demographic, a culture poignantly juxtaposed to that of the violent Islamic fundamentalists, as conveyed by the admittedly solid photoshopping job. The humor here is that of textbook incongruity, plus the fact that 9/11 has a 9 in it and warrants a vague reference to the season of Fall (edit: and the various seasonal consumer delights entailed thereby), plus a generous dash of uncomfortable edginess, which one may come to expect from a place like the Red Scare subreddit.I don't get the joke here... explain it to me Climaxer?
Ah ok I thought there was more to it.The phrase "It's finally September, y'all :leaf:" indicates a certain sanguine vacuity, here associable with the upper-middle-class American suburban female demographic, a culture poignantly juxtaposed to that of the violent Islamic fundamentalists, as conveyed by the admittedly solid photoshopping job. The humor here is that of textbook incongruity, plus the fact that 9/11 has a 9 in it and warrants a vague reference to the season of Fall (edit: and the various seasonal consumer delights entailed thereby), plus a generous dash of uncomfortable edginess, which one may come to expect from a place like the Red Scare subreddit.
This is the core of American culture war logic: negative partisanship, contrarian provocation, etc. Not just humor, the only identity or ‘substance’ experienced by these types is contra least generous idealization of cultural opponents, and fantasizing about their suffering or punishment.You could also say that the humor involves an awareness that the three previously stated components do not, in fact, amount to funny, but instead amount to outrageous and insensitive, and that in light of this the real humor is at the expense of those who find it so outrageous and insensitive.
This point is what I was trying to get at in @version 's Hypothetical Enemies thread, but dilbert here does a better job.This is the core of American culture war logic: negative partisanship, contrarian provocation, etc. Not just humor, the only identity or ‘substance’ experienced by these types is contra least generous idealization of cultural opponents, and fantasizing about their suffering or punishment.
And this is coming from someone who enjoys a bit of 9/11 humor here and there