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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Somewhere down the line we replaced gags and jokes with "relatability" as a stand-in for humor

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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure, but I feel like what floated to the top wasn't. XKCD, PBF, SMBC, even the narrative ongoings like Penny Arcade, 8bit Theater, Checkboard Nightmare and the like were never 100%, but regularly at least made strong attempts at humor, a noticeable difference to what floats to the top of the internet comic culture of today.

I agree that for every Penny-Arcade there were 2 Ctrl+Alt+Deletes. But now it feels like there are 100 CADs, 1000 comics somehow even worse in quality than that, and nobody is acknowledging the modern Penny-Arcades. (I'm not a huge PA fan actually I'm just using them as a useful instrument for the metaphor, please don't get too hung up on the specific title named)