I'm not sure if this is the right board for it, but since

It seems as soon as PC culture is destroyed, this era of freedom (being dumb and weird is ok) will have completed its cycle, and some new era will take over. I predict a new intellectual rennaiscance, where we'll say "okay, we've had our fun with this Earth, but it's time to start thinking abiut the future". I think Trump's election is like our bachelor party. We're enjoying one last display of our "fuck it" attitude, and then we'll get to work on figuring out how we're going to keep surviving as a species by focusing on the sciences.

>>8849972
It could just be you getting too mature for 4chan.

>>8850016
I like this concept. I think we'll reach a point of elevated collective-oriented culturalism, when people will make art torwards a goal, possibly something like advanced AI or space colonization.

>>8849972
I'm not sure if this is going to make any sense, I'm having a hard time articulating my thoughts here

I do think there's going to be a trend towards longer, more involved jokes in a general sense, moving away from one-liners and quick a-ha references. Getting bombarded all day by top-10 lists, predictable memes, sterile advertisement humor is tiring because we can guess the punchline as the joke is unfolding, but the polar opposite of nonsensical stuff that tries to subvert this like Tim and Eric feels formulaic in it's absurdity.

The "quick reward" isn't paying off anymore and we're overdosing. I think >>8850016 is on to something

Norm Macdonald has talked about how movies that are deemed comedies are destined to fail because they're judged at every moment on whether the joke is funny enough and they live or die by the punchline, whereas something like a Tarantino film can be casually funny, because it's primary goal is not just a joke. They can have long setups to jokes that aren't terribly funny, or scenes that are humorous in a 4/10 way instead of a 10/10 payoff, and it gives much more creative freedom and also doesn't detach itself from the more dramatic/meaningful/philosophical/whatever content that comes with it.

Just riffing, I dunno

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>>8849972
Humour is just the shockwaves of the Dialectic progressing

I guess the low hanging fruit has been plucked. I mean, there was time when just writing a novel was, well, novel. Doesn't mean novels are dead now, just that they're not interesting in and of themselves.

Bumping because im interested to hear what people have to say about this

OP here. I'm glad some people are interested. I think >>8850016 said some pretty important things, because, for quite some time, comedy was something much more regional, and now it's globalized as fuck.
I'm from Latin America, and I can relate to comedy from US, Japan, South Korea and Europe. I'm afraid this kind of humor (post-ironic) will stay for longer than it should.
It's like Renaissance kept going until 1950 because everyone on the planet liked it. Stuff are repetitive to me because they are multiple iterations of the same comedy style, but with different discourses. Everyone has different opinions but express themselves the same way.

>>8850394
Christ you're a fucking idiot
>I'm from Latin America

Ah now I see

>>8850426
that's another example from the meme culture

>>8849972
As long as people are anxious and unwilling to confront reality, we'll see this kind of humor. Should conditions improve, making reality more bearable, we'll see a renewed tendency towards the type of earnest communication that was common in 1950s American, and which seems naive to us as we are now.

>>8850477
> the type of earnest communication that was common in 1950s American [sic]

There was nothing earnest in how people spoke to each other back then, I think you're mistaking honesty with pretense of honesty which is all we've lost.

In order to grasp reality we have to have an idea what reality is to begin with

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The problem with today's humor is that there are no limits. Xenophobia? LOL. Child porn? LOL. People dying? LOL. Repetition? LOL.
Anything goes, and there is no identity nor constraint. What is the point of art if it can be anything and not respect any rule? Also, why is it that now everyone is a comedian without even being an author? People on Facebook creating memes, anonymous internet users making comedy as well... it's why Amazon's KDP has so much garbage and you can't identify what kind of book you get because they are all so different.

>>8850544
Christ this thread is really attracting dimwit psueds

>>8849972
>Is the internet "humor" getting stale?
No, you just grew up. Now leave my board redditor

>>8850016
Sorry but let's say such era ends in about 10 years, how could this new era succeed if the majority of the online population would still be dumb and weird as fuck?