I’m honestly very confused by it. This rules make less and less sense to me everyday because the creators werent clueless idiots, damn near every post here was intentionally funny? Do you mean no humor only comics or obvious jokes?
Or is it if the character is saying it to make a joke or trying to be funny? Is it fine if the writer/artists intent was to be funny?
The point of the community is not to share good jokes that they have found from comics. It’s to share a single frame that, without the rest of the page, has a different connotation than originally intended.
Usually, the older the comic, the more likely you’ll run into these cases. Modern comics are written with modern language in mind. Today Archie is MUCH less likely to say how “gay he is” because nobody really uses that term to mean happy anymore.
I think the purpose was to have the humor be caused by the lack of context. If you look at the older posts by FlyingSquid, a lot of them are funny because the words take on a different meaning than what was originally intended.
I think the name of the community is actually a good indicator here. It’s for comics that are funny because of removing them from their original context. The most common humor is “teehee” humor coming from interpreting innocent panels in a dirty context, like this:
Other humor comes from silly situations that are absurd without context like this:
Panels that are funny in the original material can be good for this community, if removing the context provides different humor. This is supposed to be funny in the original because a bear shouldn’t accept being spanked by a man, but removing the context allows it to be interpreted as sexual spanking, which is probably not what the original comic intended (there’s undoubtedly a lot of writers/artists sneakily inserting their fetishes into their work, but it’s more about how the general audience would’ve interpreted it).
the smurfing one seems intentionally funny, which is my point, a lot of these seem intentional and ppl are just assuming the writers were slow or people didnt make crass jokes back then?
It’s generally hard to guess at authorial intent, but the smurfs one isn’t any more dirty than the rest of the smurf language, in context. Here’s the full page:
Here’s another few panels from that issue that shows how often verbs are replaced with “smurf”:
If you replace that many verbs with “smurf”, eventually you’re going to end up with something that sounds dirty. In context, it reads as very normal speech though. Maybe the author knew that and secretly did it intentionally, but the general audience wouldn’t have interpreted it that way.