
We’ve all come across some version of the joke with a kid, shovel, and dark night combination. Dark humor-lovers come in abundance there. If you want to find your kind, Reddit might just be the place for you. We just want to make you feel good about all the times you chuckled at inappropriate times in social gatherings thinking of a really dark joke that would make everyone hate you. By: Kritika Narula Does Reddit provide the best dark jokes on the internet?ĭid you know that in the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud had a hypothesis: that humor was a safe escape for people’s repressed emotions, sexual urges, aggressive tendencies, and the like? More recent research has actually shown that people who appreciate a dark sense of humor or have one are likely on the higher end of the IQ scale.Įven though it feels more obvious to assume that the grumpy recluse characters in your life would enjoy dark humor, it’s actually the chirpy, emotionally stable ones in the group who are likely to crack an inappropriate joke or laugh at one unapologetically.
