what constitutes as "autistic humor"? - """"jokes"""" for minecrafters

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No, no no! You guys just don't get it!
Jokes have to be wrapped in so many layers of irony to be funny because being unable to tell whether it's mocking the absurd or absolutely serious is all a part of the fun.

On the topic of generations, since 2025 marks the start of Gen Beta, I wonder how much further our humor will devolve when they take over mass culture in 20 years. Gen Z are now the Millennials.
 
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I'll interpret the question to be "what will an autist trying to be humorous do?"

Think of how a 5 year old understands humor: they say something, people laugh, and so the 5 year old repeats it until it loses impact. Then they'll move on to saying more shit, trying to mine for something that gets laughs, without ever zeroing in on a sense of humor, either personal or contextual.

Now imagine a 15 year-old doing this, or an adult: if they're still approaching humor this way, it shows an incapacity to form a sturdy sense of self from which their own sense of humor can spring, and also an incapacity to "read the room," model the minds of others, and cynically manufacture humor appropriate for the context. this insecure aspie behavior is "autistic humor," which is to say it isn't humor at all.

Complain all you want about millennial humor or zoomer humor or boomer humor, but if the person doing the funny has a devil-may-care attitude because "fuck you, this is who I am," or is adeptly tailoring it to an audience, then it is either based or contextually fitting, respectively. Autist humor is neither of these things, it is a mockery of human behavior performed to try and fit in with humans, it is insecurity made manifest.
 
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