it’s because reality is terrifying and our world’s dying, and our developmental years were spent in a constant state of using increasingly nonsensical humor to cope
It’s called the rise of neo-dadaism and the same thing happened during WWII
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The same thing also happened in the rise of Surrealism in the art word post WWI.
You ever see those photos of a super expensive piece of art that’s just the Mona Lisa with a mustache glued on her? Or just a toilet in a modern art museum? That’s literally where it comes from.
However I feel a big difference is also this; the rise of dada especially is from the mindset that something as horrible as the allowing the first world war to happen means humanity has no inherent value, and therefore nor does its art.
However, in Millenial humour, another big factor is the rejection of using racism/sexism/exclusionary and insulting language as a crutch for humour. As a result, the appeal of surrealist humour has become much more prevailant.
So basically; Millennial humour is a a form of rebellion and counter culture movement to what the generation before saw as “valuable” while also being a progressive step towards not building humour on the concept of harm. WHich, in of itself, is ALSO counter cultural to many events we are exposed to in today’s society.
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