Why is it that we find it fun and funny?
Smoking Crow, August 13, 2014, 11:09:28 pm
It's a few things, depending on exactly what we're talking about. For one, weird and gross stuff is funny in its own right, and there's really not much further explanation to that.
At the risk of coming off as a pretentious douche, I also have a casual interest in psychology, especially group dynamics, and a lot of PoE/F Plus things are great object lessons in that. It's genuinely astounding to see how norms, language, and tribal allegiances spontaneously crop up around the most inane and trivial bullshit imaginable. It's also interesting to see how those things then influence individual people. Communities on sites like 4chan and Tumblr have the power to induct relatively normal people, particularly young teenagers, and turn them into roaring assholes. I guess I'm basically just repeating what Portaxx said.
Not that I think we're immune to that stuff, either. I started browsing PoE when I was 13. PoE was always fucked up in its own way, and it would be naive for me to think that it didn't damage me somehow. At least I'm not putting maggots up my peehole, I guess.