… titillating to think of the animal slaves killing each other for their favor like some kind of Animal Augustus Caesar sitting atop the coliseum
directly makes it sound like they’re thinking about all that instead of just incuriously laughing at something coded as humor. these people do not do media analysis and i’d be shocked if they felt anything besides mild amusement or whatever the term for “i recognize that was formed like humor but it wasn’t funny enough to get a reaction” i didn’t know the german loanword.
i’m confused then.
directly makes it sound like they’re thinking about all that instead of just incuriously laughing at something coded as humor. these people do not do media analysis and i’d be shocked if they felt anything besides mild amusement or whatever the term for “i recognize that was formed like humor but it wasn’t funny enough to get a reaction” i didn’t know the german loanword.
I believe the term is “about as funny as cancer” which also accurately describes the situation