Talk:Humor on the Internet

Pretty please

Please don't turn this article into a random collection of internet memes. Please keep the discussion general, referenced from sources which discuss specifics of humor in the era of internet, along the lines of the initial stub. Staszek Lem (talk) 01:55, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

TODO

internet-exchanged humor as an important element of newly-emerging hacker culture

A hint may be found in <ref name=taoup/> cited in article. Staszek Lem (talk) 03:06, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Limor Shifman

A good deal of info may be taken from LS's article. However I would caution from re-using anything beyond typology and general comments: his statistics if obviously from the extremely limited sample. 03:39, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: ENWR 1510 Writing and Critical Inquiry

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 January 2023 and 2 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): KGS8TH (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by KGS8TH (talk) 15:12, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Proposed Addition of a History Section

I plan to add a heading titled ‘History of Humour on the Internet.’ This history section will detail the evolution of the history of humor on the internet. It will include the different forms that humor on the internet has taken (gifs, memes, reels) and the different platforms that humor has evolved onto (instagram; tiktok). This section will directly reference the multi-media sources that exist today - ie. Instagram, TikTok etc. The content in this heading will be written in chronological order as a timeline of developments. I also plan to add a visual example of a meme to illustrate how humor has been used on the internet. The meme is called “Wikipedia Image Meme” and it has been retrieved from the Creative Commons library page. Alexs3030 (talk) 19:01, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Addendum to Earlier Proposed Changes

Rather than focusing directly on the history of humor on the internet, my edits will be focused on the medium of internet humor. I will add a heading titled “Medium of Internet Humor” discussing three key mediums of internet humor: memes, GIFs, and short-form videos (ex. TikTok, Instagram Reels etc). This will ensure that my edits do not overlap with the history of other Wikipedia pages such as “Internet Memes.” Alexs3030 (talk) 18:51, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Possible AI use

Concerns were raised previously about AI-generated content in this article. This is a procedural talk page section to discuss it. There is no need to ping me in response. Read WP:AISIGNS for more information for why this is tagged; however, note that fixing the issue requires more than just removing the superficial signs. Gnomingstuff (talk) 11:01, 5 June 2026 (UTC)