• Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        124·
        2 months ago

        A fictional story about a husband/father being cruel to his family until they leave doesn’t exactly seem like fun entertainment to me 😅

        4chan’s idea of a joke tends to involve some kind of suffering or cruelty, I don’t really get the appeal. It shows up on my feed and I can’t help but think “someone wants to read this sort of thing…?”

        At least the one about the lady pissing herself and jumping in a canal or whatever was kinda silly and just a story about doing something dumb

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          241·
          2 months ago

          It’s creative writing with a subversion of expectations. You expect anon to be in a public gym with a random uncontrolled child, not at home with his own child. You side with him until the very end. The whiplash is the joke, not child cruelty.

          • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, I understand that it’s a subversion of what’s expected, it’s just also depressing

            “The joke is that you thought it was just a weird interaction with strangers, but he’s actually being shitty father and abusive husband!” doesn’t really work for me 🤷🏻 I get why it’s funny to other people, I just can’t really relate, and so much of 4chan humor has that same shared thread of being an asshole, life being a bleak existence, or making up a strawman to attack a particular population. It’s just kinda depressing to me :/

            • mriormro@lemmy.world
              51·
              2 months ago

              May I ask why you’re on greentext? It’s literally just 4chan screenshots and if you know that kind of humor doesn’t sit well with you then it might be better to avoid it.

              • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
                5·
                2 months ago

                It’s on the front page pretty often, as it seems like one of the larger communities

                I’ll probably end up blocking it as the other reply mentioned, but I don’t usually like doing that. It’s also a bummer cause occasionally something really lovely gets produced by 4chan, you just have to wade through a lot of bleakness before you find it, it would seem

                I don’t mean to disparage others their choice or preferences, just expressing I don’t really understand them

                Hope you have a good one :)

                • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                  7·
                  2 months ago

                  You would probably enjoy this community more.

                  [email protected]

                  FWIW, I totally get the way you feel about greentexts in general. I think it’s a very natural reaction, and those of us (myself included) who enjoy these posts without reservation are actually the unusual ones who have been desensitized by a lifetime on internet forums.

                  There’s a certain jaded callousness, seasoned with a sprinkling of cynicism and misanthropy, which allows one to most fully savor the fruits of c/greentext 😂

              • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                2 months ago

                I probably will at some point, it’s a shame though cause every once in a while something really fun or charming comes out of the greentext communities or reddit or lemmy. I don’t meant to condemn folks for their choice or preferences, just express that I can’t relate to them

                Hope you have a good one :)

    • superkret@feddit.org
      10·
      2 months ago

      Fuck, that channel is so depressing.
      Starts out as him and his wife sampling food at restaurants, pivots to them sampling whisky, then him sampling whisky alone, then the famous video where his wife leaves while he reviews the Laphroaig.
      And he’s been making a video sampling a new bottle of whisky basically every day for the past 8 years, most videos getting fewer than 100 views.

      • mriormro@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        Ehhh, certainly that video was a bleak point but if you scope out his latest videos you can see he sounds like he’s in a better place and occasionally brings on a friend or two to happily review together.

        As to his low view count: it seems like it’s a small, consistent community that watches his stuff. So he’s found a little niche for himself.