Offensive shit, dark humor, gross depictions of gore, all that jazz. The humor you hear from sites like The Hard Times and other punk websites that have this "not giving a fuck attitude" but they're punk so they actually do in fact give a fuck and are willing to stop when it's genuinely harmful or unconsented.

People act like Newgrounds becoming "Politically Correct" (I use this term with care because to be honest, it's misused by a lot of actual bigots as well nowadays) is a good thing, but to me, it feels like it's lost what originally made it fun to explore back in the day. Sure, it's gained life with a completely different demographic of people, but I grew up with the original demographic. I just like seeing communities where in humor, nothing is sacred, but nobody's being actively harmed. A way to blow off steam or cope with trauma through harmless edgy fun.

It's like seeing your favorite rapper go from making offensive, social commentary filled, disrepectful gang rap to mainstream, radio friendly party trap. It's not bad or worse in an objective sense, but it has you feeling depressed as fuck clinging onto the past. You accept and respect the rapper for asserting his creative freedom and shifts, even feel happy for him about that , but you can't help but feel a little bummed about it knowing he's not the same.

I digress, I just wish I could find another community of likeminded people who don't mind getting as gross and unkempt in terms of humor while understanding it's just fiction, it's just for blowing off steam and not genuinely targeted to any specific persons and with no intent to harm. If anyone reading this has some reccomendations for safe communities of this type, I'd be interested in joining.

I know it's weird hearing this from a person like me of all things, the kind of person you'd expect to be your "average sjw tumblr user" in the eyes of dark humor posers who act edgy not because they genuinely care about the philosophy of using art and words to explore the gutters of humanity without causing real harm, but because they wanna seem cool and strong (retards.)

You know, non-white, has a cutesy aesthetic, survivor of lots of fucked up trauma I will not mention here, biological female, diagnosed autistic, pro-lgbtq+, advocate for gender egalitarianism, all that knick paddy wack bullshit. But I've never touched tumblr in my life and have come to surprise some of those edgy posers with how 3-dimensional dark comedy can actually be if you truly pay attention.

People act like any media that's dark in themes, even offensive is horrible, and worthy of a cancel or even a death sentence, but coming from a girl with literal RSD (I overreact to a lot), I think that's a HUGE overreaction. To me, dark humor depends on the creator and how it's executed.

I can't trust an scummy asshole like Sh*dman because he's genuinely a fucked up piece of dogshit and that's putting it lightly considering he's a member of the kind of people who had traumatized me as a child (You know what it is). What he draws is often not that funny. It just comes off like he's genuinely gooning off of that shit, of which is confirmed he is.

But other artists such as myself and a lot of my friends are none of that. We create and draw offensive shit, but not genuinely because we fetishize it or find it fun, but to sort of explore and criticize the complexity of the human capability to create such issues. I draw art of my trauma, but in a form that sexualizes the male perpetrator, in a bet of reclaiming. It's my own way of saying "fuck you" to the oppressive gender roles I have been forced to suffer the consequences of, by sexualizing the men who want ME to be the sexy one. Like "No, creep, you do it. I'm not entertaining you, you're the one forcing me to fuck you so you could at least try to make yourself sexually appealing to me if you want it so bad". That is an example in my case. It's basically why I don't feel horny when I draw men in such a way but just calm, accomplished and even euphoric. In a way I can't explain. Like a weight has been lifted off of me.

I don't know if you know, but a lot of the subject matter that dark humor touches upon is almost always man-made. Sexism, racism, anger-driven violence, all that shit is man-made. If humans didn't have the emotional or cognitive capacity that differentiates us from wild animals, we'd just be killing for survival with no genuine emotional reasoning for it. So to conserve energy in dire times especially, if we saw no need to kill, we wouldn't kill at all.

That's kind of a philosophy I see in dark humor, which is why I find it so beautiful and participate in it. Freely exploring and exposing the pure lack of reasoning for how humans think and work to the point such fucked up behaviors spark within us as a species.

TLDR: Dark humor go brrrr (No I'm not summarizing it for you, son. Go do your homework lol)