Refusing to Laugh

"*Hey, anybody else having this same problem as me where, like, you haven't laughed? In a really long time? Like, months?*"
―Erik
Refusing to Laugh is the 121st lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on September 29, 2020.

## Summary

Erik realizes that he hasn't laughed since he watched a fart video back in March and also when his cat got coronavirus. He leaves a comment and kicks his student Jeremy out of class for laughing.

Erik goes into Rainbow Six and asks his team to tell him a joke. One of them says something sexist, so Erik tries to do a Fortnite dance and accidentally teamkills him. Then he sees a video of Kanye West peeing on a Grammy award, but Erik decides that it's not funny. Next he tries a Veery Good "You Laugh You Lose" video, but it's mostly just people getting seriously hurt and it just makes Erik upset. He decides to transition to a Raycon ad, promising the company that there will be no weird stuff in Raycons: The Movie.

Erik watches two sound mimicking apps in a loop, with each loop higher pitched than the list, but it doesn't help him laugh. Then he watches old people do funny things on TikTok and it almost makes him laugh. Then he leaves a comment for Doctor Phil after he complains about people calling him Daddy. Then he sees a bunch of kids doing stupid stuff on TikTok and deletes it.

As a last resort, Erik watches a compilation of offensive jokes, but they don't make him laugh and he doesn't understand the man with the accent. Instead he tells a joke of his own in the comments. He decides that instead, he'll just learn how to do a fake laugh.

## Comments

*Laughter and sadness; Such opposite emotions, yet both make us cry. Sadness gives us strength, while laughter refills our hope -- what our hearts fight for.**Once there was a man with no laughter or sadness. His name was Ted Cruz. He was a lizard, the kind that likes tweets of porn, plus his dick was weird. I've only heard tell of the one they call Ted Cruz. Sounds like a bitch though. Real annoying voice, with a handicapped penis, not a single friend. It doesn't matter. Ted Cruz has no emotions. He gets off to blood. I hope I never, never ever hear him laugh, lest I lose my mind.**I prefer him numb -- may sadness never find him, so that laughter can't. Big Money I'm out, suck my gross balls and asshole; Whole thing's a haiku.*
- Erik

*Trust me ... I WONT STOP pic.twitter.com/RmVkqrSa4F*
- @kanyewest

*I wish that grammy was my goddamn mouth...*
- Erik

*Wow I can't believe how much disturbing violence you included in your little laughter game. Like what's going on here, do you people J/O to this stuff or something? Because if you do you're gonna love J'in O'S to MY youtube channel "SALVIA STUNTS” where I crash my fucking bike into a garbage truck arm that picks me up and dumps me inside before compressing me to death. It's a total whoopsie, extremely sexy stuff. Also check out my linktree where you can find all my pay pages where I'll send you personalized videos of me trying to ice skate for the first time and shattering my ankles before a sniper blows my head off. "SALVIA STUNTS" check it out l'm workin on a video right now called "You Laugh You Bust a Fat One" and it's 100% injuries, including footage of a guy catching coronavirus just by visiting Walmart.com. That's right Walmart as a business has so much coronavirus inside it that just interacting with them online is enough to give you a viral load. Speakin of loads I gotta go hurl myself off a waterfall and comically hit every rock on the way down so some dude in Utah can jizz to it seeya!*
- Erik

*You're not a real doctor either but you still put that in your name so I'm gonna keep calling you daddy bro 😬*
- Erik

*A Vaudeville agent is interviewing acts. A man comes in and says "boy do I have the act for you!" The agent replies, "Well what is it you do?" The man explains:**"First of all my wife and I come out on stage fully nude while eating plates of each other's shit. She's swinging an aborted fetus above her head that we've stuffed with illegal fireworks, which she slings into the audience, aiming for the nearest child as it detonates. I then bring out my daughter on an operating table and DIY amputate every single limb from her body while a surgeon advises me over speakerphone. While that's happening, my youngest son comes flying out dressed as a french maid, strapped to a military drone that slowly hovers over the stage while my wife shoots a dildo machine gun at him. Once he's unconscious from blunt force trauma, we wheel out grandma and feed her into a wood chipper while singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin" from Oklahoma. For the finale, I show my unnaturally bulged gut, turn around, and give rectal birth to a dozen live lake trout as they spill into a freshwater tank on the stage, which my wife then drowns our newly limbless daughter inside while I get a blowjob from our HIV-positive family dog."**The agent is stunned, "That's amazing, what do you call yourselves?" And the father replies, "Cuties!"*
- Erik

## Context

1. ↑ The joke Erik tells is a rendition of the classic joke "The Aristocrats." In this case, the punchline Cuties refers to the 2020 film that received criticism for how it handled its subject matter of the sexualization of children online.

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