There can be millions of views and people laughing in the comments, but no! There is nothing funny about that! That poor animal was spooked, that person literally broke an arm! There is nothing funny about suffering! I don’t care what music you add.
The worst part is how these little harmful clips are included with a seemingly harmless collage of videos. You’re relaxed, laughing at cute puppies being happy, but oh no, hey, here is a harmed dog that folks think is funny. Seriously.
There is no reason for these videos to be so popular.
I even see folks sharing videos of a single clip of people/animals harmed and folks calling it “funny.”
This is my unpopular opinion, and it that it is unpopular disgusts me.
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I agree with you.
Yeah they are.
sadly unpopular but factually correct.
I mean but what about kids falling down?
Agreed
It’s one thing if the animal is just like being jump-scared or is more annoyed than hurt or scared, but I recently saw a ‘funny’ compilation video that included a dog rushing in and eating the rest of a kitten’s food as it was still trying to eat. The poor baby was getting shoved around in the bowl because of how eager and rough the dog was
What about that is funny or cute??
I agree generally. Genuine question: what about if a grown man is afraid for a moment of a rubber animal thinking it’s real like a spider
So how does it feel to be the arbiter of humor?
Thank you! I hate “prank” videos because of this.
Why do people think they have the right to harass a random stranger, then expect the person to be okay with it and find it funny?
Like sure, I’m totally fine with some random prick embarrassing me in public in front of a bunch of people and in front of God knows how many more online, for them to make fun of me. 🙄🙄
I generally agree, but have you considered the virtues of “Man gets hit in the balls with football”?
Animal being scared or harmed? Yeah no funny. Human hurting themselves due to incompetence or hubris? Very funny, yes.
Obviously not fatal or even permanent injury. And it helps if they seemingly deserved it.
Is this really that unpopular of an opinion though? If your source is instagram reels comments… then that makes sense. They literally make fun of disabled people on instagram… they need to up their moderation.
kids getting hurt is always funny tho.
I’ve never seen any clips of dogs being harmed and people found it funny can you share any examples
I can’t really agree with this not only because humor is subjective, you can’t declare something funny or unfunny but also because it is clearly something that is ingrained into the human psyche. In every culture across the planet, laughing at someone else’s pain is a universal occurrence. This is especially true when the pain is rather minor or non life threatening like a broken arm.
And if you think about it in terms of behavioral psych it makes sense too. Laughter can serve many purposes. Say a baby falls and people laugh, this teaches the child that falling is not something to get upset about and they learn to get up and keep going. Now let’s take the baby and make it a 18 year old kid falling across the stage at graduation and everyone laughs. In the moment the kid will feel embarrassment/shame and this emotion will push them to make sure they watch their step closer in the future. In evolutionary terms this is a net positive.
For example, let’s say a hunter in a primitive tribe goes out to hunt a boar and it ends up ramming him and getting away. When he comes back empty handed, tells the story and people laugh, he’ll probably feel shame for not being able to feed the tribe. This will drive him to get up the next day and stay out even longer until he brings something back.
I tend to not be amused by someone being hurt, other than the accidental nut tap, that shit is funny. I do find startled things funny. There’s a subreddit called startled cats and I laugh so hard at it. It’s mostly cats that will play with something and knock down something else, then it gets them startled.
Slipped on a banana peel that fell out of the trash in the kitchen and fell on my ass. It hurt but I laughed about it for 5 minutes, it was so cliche. Pretty funny imo am I allowed to laugh at my own pain?
I dont laugh when people get seriously hurt or killed though. Only temporary,minor pain is funny to me.
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It can be funny as long as it’s humans doing it to themselves. I’ll stand behind the Three Stooges and Jackass being funny because everyone involved knew what they were signing up for. I agree that accidents and anything having to do with animals getting hurt aren’t funny though.
I was raised in an era where a guy getting hit in the nuts with a football was prime comedy, and I will not apologize for it!
Humor is subjective. If I find something funny, then it’s funny to me.
But I love watching UFC!
Take my upvote. This is truly unpopular, but trashing other peoples taste is crazy talk
i agree mostly. i think there are varying degrees of “oh that’s messed up”. like, for example, someone getting slightly startled by someone jumping out at them isn’t that messed up, because they’re usually fine. but people falling or hurting themselves is pretty messed up because it definitely wasn’t funny for that person lol
i especially don’t understand why people find kids getting hurt funny?? you kinda have to be a special kind of weird to find that funny, imo. i feel the same way about startling kids / animals (like the cucumber cat videos) because that’s just being mean. plus, it feels a little exploitative when it’s being done to kids. because like…why else would you post a video of your kid getting startled or falling down if not in an attempt to get likes? i just don’t really get it lmao