How would aliens feel about modern internet humor? Such as things like memes and vines? Especially the weirder stuff like dank memes and edits.
Humor is a very important part of human cultures. Humans love to make each other happy and one of the best ways to do this is by telling them something funny to make them laugh. As technology continues to advance on earth, one of the more common ways for humans to communicate is through the internet on social media. This has created an entirely new category of humor that is incomprehensible to those who are not avid users of social media. Jokes on the internet are typically expressed in what is known as a “meme” or an image, video, or piece of text that has been copied and spread rapidly across the internet. It is like having an inside joke with millions of other humans. Sometimes if a meme has been circulated enough, one only needs to post portions or loose variations of it in order to get the reference across. This makes it very confusing for those who missed the joke when it was first being spread around. These memes can even go so far as to becoming ingrained in a human’s speech pattern. The most well-known speech pattern that has been adopted from the internet is to replace every “L” and “R” in a word with a “W” and then throw in a “W” to other words randomly as well. It is a very strange thing to do and appears to cause humans to feel irritation and exasperation when they hear or read it, so it is not entirely certain why they continue to use these patterns. Do these internet jokes and cultures make any sense at all? No. Do the humans find them to be funny and make them happy? Yes, and in the end that matters more than their thought processes having any semblance of logic at all.
