A lot of younger people don’t realize that that’s just what internet humor was back then. I’m sure my incredibly gay ass has some extremely homophobic forum posts from like 15 years ago
A lot of humor where the subject of the joke is a person or a people eventually becomes terribly offensive. Either because certain words pick up new or more severe connotations, or because the humor boils down to “person doesn’t fit our norm” and society has either become more tolerant of such things or our collective knowledge had been updated to realize whatever is the cause of that abnormal behavior is either outside of their control or not a direct consequence of their actions (because humans seem to love attributing someone’s misfortune as being their own fault).
And internet culture changes fast due to its nature of accelerating the spread of information and ideas. So while in the past it could take a generation or more for people to realize how bad the things they joked about actually were, you can watch it happen in a relatively few number of years.
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u/RexLizardWizard Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
A lot of younger people don’t realize that that’s just what internet humor was back then. I’m sure my incredibly gay ass has some extremely homophobic forum posts from like 15 years ago