The bonus is that 1990s radio rock, which is the genre that Cake song belongs to, happens to be a dumb, immature thing that, by and large, I can't help but like.
Know how you get those distracting superficially-related but content-irrelevant thoughts in your head when reading/watching/listening to/attending something?
Ever thought this one line that your coworker or professor or some TV show character said would make a great dance mix?
Ever wonder how it would sound if you reversed the stuff people said? Ever wanted to do it just to see if you could find something satanic in it like those crazy urban legends claim -- or for that matter, completely stupid things like racial slurs or sexual expletives?
And what if you could make people say stupid things? What if you could cause people to sing songs by saying stupid things? Did you suddenly imagine your boss's cell phone ringtone playing Cirno's Perfect Math Class instead of the Nokia Tune?
Do you like to revel in horrible, horrible puns, or the ability to pick out something that sounds like bad language in a completely unrelated audiorecording?
I think I may like self-aware humor a little too much. Like, some series might crack the worst joke ever (worst as in completely tasteless, or worst as in badly-structured; either applies), but if the series follows up by making fun of itself for cracking that joke, then I'm all "Oh, I can't stay mad at you."
Well the appeal of animal macros is "here's a cute animal, and here's a witty thing to go along with it".
I can see that YTP might be a bit niche -- it's silly in an extremely childish way, and some people might not like that style of complete irrelevance and/or nonsense.
One curious thing is how I really like YTP but I don't really like other styles of humor that much, such as dark humor, dirty humor, slapstick, schädenfreude. Incidentally, I also like the very different humor style of Look Around You -- though one could argue that both have absurdist components, which create humor by suggesting completely radical changes to one's understanding of "reality" (as presented in the setting). YTP does it by augmenting the in-the-show "reality" with an external context (i.e. beyond the fourth wall), and breaking it repeatedly, while LAY does it by subtly and deadpanly introducing elements that clearly don't make sense.
That said, the deadpanness of LAY is another reason I like it. A sort of "stealth" humor, if you will. Some YTPs have some of that -- the ones that rely on flashing something across the screen quickly or changing scenes after a key punchline to pretend as if nothing happened.
I don't really know how to describe it, but...y'know, it's kinda like a prank, I think. It's like, you did something and you wait for someone else to figure it out later, after they've been pranked. But when playing the prank yourself, you can't help but almost giggle at the thought of them being pranked. And you can't help but be curious how they react to it. Maybe. I don't really know.
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TPS makes me feel significantly less childish, however, and also introduced me to Death Cab for Cutie so I don't consider them very immature
but usually both are good
That's good.
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>Insert social context wherein animation is meant for children and does not contain intellectualism.
An old girlfriend of mine got me into Jars Of Clay. Oddly enough, I started liking them more after i broke up with her.
crude humour
pink sparkly things
pop punk
puns
Mountain Dew
Know how you get those distracting superficially-related but content-irrelevant thoughts in your head when reading/watching/listening to/attending something?
Ever thought this one line that your coworker or professor or some TV show character said would make a great dance mix?
Ever wonder how it would sound if you reversed the stuff people said? Ever wanted to do it just to see if you could find something satanic in it like those crazy urban legends claim -- or for that matter, completely stupid things like racial slurs or sexual expletives?
And what if you could make people say stupid things? What if you could cause people to sing songs by saying stupid things? Did you suddenly imagine your boss's cell phone ringtone playing Cirno's Perfect Math Class instead of the Nokia Tune?
Do you like to revel in horrible, horrible puns, or the ability to pick out something that sounds like bad language in a completely unrelated audiorecording?
If so, Youtube Poop is right for you.
i can see the humour now, but initially i was like 'how can anyone be entertained by this'
any funny animal pictures, really
Also they aren't made very often anymore, it seems.
i'm still not convinced that any amusing picture is improved by the addition of an ungrammatical caption
I can see that YTP might be a bit niche -- it's silly in an extremely childish way, and some people might not like that style of complete irrelevance and/or nonsense.
One curious thing is how I really like YTP but I don't really like other styles of humor that much, such as dark humor, dirty humor, slapstick, schädenfreude. Incidentally, I also like the very different humor style of Look Around You -- though one could argue that both have absurdist components, which create humor by suggesting completely radical changes to one's understanding of "reality" (as presented in the setting). YTP does it by augmenting the in-the-show "reality" with an external context (i.e. beyond the fourth wall), and breaking it repeatedly, while LAY does it by subtly and deadpanly introducing elements that clearly don't make sense.
That said, the deadpanness of LAY is another reason I like it. A sort of "stealth" humor, if you will. Some YTPs have some of that -- the ones that rely on flashing something across the screen quickly or changing scenes after a key punchline to pretend as if nothing happened.
I don't really know how to describe it, but...y'know, it's kinda like a prank, I think. It's like, you did something and you wait for someone else to figure it out later, after they've been pranked. But when playing the prank yourself, you can't help but almost giggle at the thought of them being pranked. And you can't help but be curious how they react to it. Maybe. I don't really know.
i guess a lot of Internet humour is less witty and more purposefully stupid
which seen from one perspective is part of the charm, but it's not my preferred humour, i guess
take for instances, comedians that pretend to be a strawman of a certain position
the former is witty, if done well