Internet Humor

Internet humor, yeah, you know what I'm talking about. From lists to edited pictures to any other random poor excuse for comedy. Truthfully there isn't much on the internet that can make me laugh, without wit atleast. They've over run the internet or atleast most fan sites. Humors a wonderful thing, and mostly a cure for any kind of boredom, a good laugh is worth a million dollars in canadian currency... But we don't all have that much, nor is it that easy. People seem to have alot of excuses to pass off at humor. Some people find it funny, maybe I'm just to uptight about it but I find it irritating at most.

For one thing, lists are probbally the most popular. People think they can get a laugh by saying "There is no number (insert number)", its not funny when all the answers are predictable and look like it only took the auther five seconds to type out. If you're looking at a top list made from fandom of anything, most of the jokes you'd expect. "You know you're too big of a fan of (what ever the heck your a fan of) when...".
You'd already of realized any of the options, they are never realistic and most of the time aren't funny. No ones ever going to jump ontop of peoples heads becuase they are a Mario bros. fanatic. You want to be entertained of course, it may be too demanding to say that the writers of lists aren't trying hard enough. However I'd rather have no lists at all unless they ARE funny. I want to laugh, I don't want to laugh at the fact that you'd have to be a complete obsessive freak to do anything on such a list, nor will I. When lists relate to a subject, such as "The top five thousand reasons Bill clinton cheated are...", Its obvios its going to tell a number of innane reasons that aren't realistic, if any are even slightly witty is overshadowed by the lack of humor in the rest of the list. Its just not funny any more, after it being abused so much and over done its not even the least bit funny. If you wanna make someone laugh, think of something thats orignal, or atleast rarely done. And make it witty. Or you'll lose my non-existent-respect for you total strangers. Remember, most of us already know the one-bazillion-ways to annoy total strangers with rubber snakes, so we don't need to read them without threat of torture.

Alright, one thing I know for sure. Puns, aren't punny. No, really. Its not that the many resort to it but when they do, its chaos.

Edited pictures can only be funny when the jokes are well thought out, when you just throw in some random quip or insult and then go wild people aren't going to be amused for more then half a second. Heck, insults may be considered class A humor, but its not at all wholely amusing. For example, my site insults me and my intelligence on nearly every page, its only funny the first time, as you'v probbally realized. You need wit to back it up or its all for not. Take your time, don't just throw something random, gorey, insultive, or violent together just becuase everyone else is doing it. Besides, why jump off a bridge like everyone else when you can bring scuba gear?

Funny stories, okay, I know if you have a freind who likes to spread as many humor stories as they can like I do, (Hi DG) you know what I'm talking about, and if not you're lucky, flee now! Don't let yourself be tramatized by this! Go! For yous who don't and continued to read anyway, they are short stories that climax into some unsettling joke at the end. Its not that these can't be funny, its just that 90% of them are innane and/or perverted garbage. They need to be well thought out. But they fail most of the time.
To close this, I'd just like to say that if you wanna be funny; Be creative, be intelligent, and be orignal. Thank-kyew and guh-night



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