Social Media killed the Comedy Star (Regarding the "joke police" in today's society)

I've been trying to write this post for a few days now so I'm just going to sum it up because I don't have time to type everything I want to.

With the rise of social media giving everybody and their grandma (literally) a "voice" and a place to post thoughts and feelings on any topic, at any time, for the entire world to see, a unfortunate casualty has been, and is going to be the death of comedy.

I've been watching this digression that started before the #metoo movement, but has accelerated intensely since then.

With Roseanne, James Gunn, Elon Musk, and most recently what triggered it was a season finale from the AMC show Preacher that Seth Rogen writes that had an actual Nazi coming to save Hitler (who escaped Hell) wearing a MAGA hat (an obvious, bad joke that references the media and celebs calling Trump Hitlter) and watching the social media comments of people "quitting watching" the show and comments like:

"keep your politics to yourself"

"I will never support you again, Seth"

"The left controls the media, I'm 'boycotting' amc"

etc.

This is a show that has literally Jesus as an inbred simpleton, God in a fetish dog suit riding around a Harley with various biker trash women and a junkie vampire that uses an umbrella to avoid the sun

It was a dumb joke, and so was Roseanne's, and believe it or not, James Gunn's terrible, unfunny, and inappropriate jokes.

Fox news ran the story about Preacher as actual news (basically the equivalent of a dick joke, and it made the front page of FOX) and the comments are just rediculous

SJWs get offended from everything under the sun. But now, both sides are "offended" from everything. Comedy is no longer taken at surface level and all jokes are now scrutinized because everyone now has a platform and are vying for clicks and likes.

A lot of the time, I don't even think people are actually offended, they are just spewing crap on social media for attention. But this is only going to get worse until telling bad jokes is going to evolve into an actual crime.

It's sad, but it's a definite negative side effect of social media. Back in the day if you told a bad joke (dead baby, "racist", etc) and it fell flat, you just felt dumb for not getting laughs and moved on. Even people that used to actually get offended, would just say something like "that's offensive to me" and move on.

Now everything is a "movement" and a white knighting shite fest. Everyone is trying to seem self-important or narcissistic to a detrimental level.

Everyone is posturing for some non-existent platform or stance and comedy is dying a slow death.

Dave Chappelle has hit on this, and a great youtuber named idubbbz, and they are both right.

PBS Video and article on Chappelle and this topic

idubbbz TV calls out the "joke police"

Comedy is endangered, and we need to all chill out and laugh at stuff. Laughter is important and so is comedy. I'm scared of what this road is going to lead to, and something needs to change, or in 5-10 years we are going to be a lifeless, boring, and tortured society.

/end rant