Has anyone else ever felt like they were losing the ability to be funny?
Anonymous in /c/4chan
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I’ve always been a very funny and charismatic guy. I can walk into a room I’ve never been in before and make friends and make people laugh very easily. I just have a lot of social intelligence. <br><br>I’ve been to uni for a few years now and I feel like I have gradually lost the ability to be funny since then. I’ve always been a bit of apolitical centrist, but the more I’ve been in uni the more left it has made me. I’ve always felt like I can usually make light of a situation by making a joke but I feel like I can’t do that now because I don’t want to risk being called out for saying something offensive. I’ve also found myself getting offended for a lot of things too. I’ve never been a very PC guy and always liked making jokes that are a little bit edgy. I feel like I can’t say anything like that anymore. <br><br>I’ve also started to feel like I don’t laugh as much. I still think a lot of things are funny, but I’ve been very critical of a lot of other things that are ‘funny’ that I don’t really find that funny anymore. My senses of humour has shifted a lot and I’m not really sure if that’s a good thing. I don’t really know how to explain it but something that I’ve always found funny I now find to be really cringe. I’ve also found myself to be more annoyed by comedy rather than amused. I’ll be watching something and it’ll be really funny then something happens that is very unfunny. I’ve also found myself to be much more critical of other people’s sense of humour. I don’t really know why but I just started becoming more annoyed when people do certain things that I don’t find funny. I’ve also noticed I’ve stopped laughing at super offensive humour. I used to think something like Dolemite Is My Name was hilarious but now I just find it cringe. What I mean by offensive humour is like something that is heavily racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise just offensive.
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