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Haha, dude, if are looking for negative views, you are in the wrong place.
People here haven't demean even my stuff during three month already. Why "even"? Because I was accustomed to receive cruel and humiliating comments about my creative work regularly during whole my life.
Instead, they either find something good in it, or give a constructive and not offensive criticism, or just don't comment if they are not interested in it. Welcome to Tapas Forums :joy:

Its kind of like a safe space for creators hu, nice, tho it wont prepare me for what awaits out there​:joy::joy:

I love offensive humor! I really don't mind jokes about stereotypes, race, gender, politics, etc. Potty humor is my preferred humor, and sometimes I don't find swearing just for he sake of swearing funny.

In matters like these, it helps to mind your audience. Medical humor, especially EMS humor, usually goes over very well with me. But if I say I found somebody "assuming room temperature" to that person's surviving family, I can expect to lose my job.

Also, just because a joke is dark or sardonic doesn't mean people normally down for dark humor are guaranteed to like it. Joke with me about dead bodies all you like, but I draw the line at dead baby jokes. Racist jokes or mocking people because they're rural, poor, of a different religion, or disabled will also flat out tick me off, as will racist and sexist jokes and such, but that's usually because they are based on tired stereotypes instead of truth and reinforce negative attitudes rather than mock them.

Ive never found swearing as a funny thing per say, i use it, but just to depict bad mannered individuals.
Hey you could try my cartoon if satire and dark humor is your thing, maybe you end up liking it

So would you say that, the issue lays when dark humor, even not intentionally, becomes bad once it promotes bad habits or beliefs?

It really depends, mostly with who is telling the joke. I can not stand people who use hate-speech and try to write it off as a joke.

I am OK with sex jokes but when it is over done, it just becomes gross.

I do enjoy some South Park but a lot of it is very hit or miss IMO. I just feel like most of their better jokes are the more tame ones.

I enjoy offensive humor. I'm pretty open when it comes to comedy. There are some things I hear where I cringe inwardly, but I can move past things fairly easily.
I write a lot of adult themed stories, but I try to be fair with warnings so I don't toss anyone off. I try to keep my humor open for all, usually.

I appreciate dark and offensive humor when and where I am expecting it. VGCats lost me as a reader when the creator Scott overreacted to some criticism by creating the most offensive gross-out comics he could and dropping it right into his comic feed about cute cats playing video games. Any sort of joke can be forgiven if the joke actually works. For an example of a webcomic series which gets blue humor right, I suggest reading Bled City, a hidden gem right here on Tapas. If you do read it, bare in mind that the first chapter is the weakest comedy in the series.

Octa, I decided that I would use your comic as example of good crude humor even before I saw that you had posted in this thread.

I commented the same, his own comic is the perfect example of offensive dark humor which is fantastic :joy:
I occasionally laugh while remembering this belly:

It's fine. I don't even think it should be called offensive, it's just humor

@Zaboem @amortelito you guys are the type of fan base that keeps one going really:') i owe you all
I still gotta improve both writing and art style but i have some pretty cool stuff planned.

Of course, ive never been told to fuck off this politely^^

Uh! I love offensive humor when its done properly!

A lot of people don't really have a great grasp of why somethings funny tho. Like they don't understand the context and think the reason people are laughing is because its just cruel. So they make cruel jokes of their own, and it never lands and all they do is make their (1) friend have to explain to their friends why you're like this and that they won't invite you along anymore.

Offensive humor only works contextually. like you can make jokes about your own plight and the things you can personally relate to. Because theres always going to be people who are in the same position as you are and will find that a witty observation.

"If the person on the gallows makes a grim joke, that's gallows humor.

If someone in the crowd makes a joke, that's part of the execution."

heres a really good twitter thread on it

I think it's ok if it's done smartly, but there are certain limits because sometimes nowadays people use cynicism as a way to look or sound intellectual.

Again, it depends on the context and the audience. There are so many things besides content that can make a joke bad. And sometimes jokes that are offensive to some people or under some circumstances are pretty good to others. For example, a witticism about the hard and messy work that's childbirth might make some men uncomfortable, and it might not be appropriate, say, at church, but people who've birthed a baby, delivered a baby, or (like me) both and are hanging out at home or at a pub or something might find it uproariously funny.

Okay seems like you are right, when it comes to webtoons, how are offensive jokes told apart betwne appropiate and non?

Again, it depends on your audience. And because your humor is more satirical as well as sardonic, I think you're doing just fine.