I was working at something mindless and watching random Youtube videos when this popped up in recommendations for some reason on Justin Whang's great video about the WWF vs the PTC:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=X-8ICfWsUVw
I listened to the whole thing. I was like, what the fuck, this sounds like a second year English essay from a pop-culture course. I searched for the guy here on the Farms and got this thread. It is the first Breadtube video I ever watched and hopefully the only one. Holy fucking lol.
Imagine trying intellectualize Rick's cruelty on Rick & Morty as anything other than it's funny when he's mean. Just like it's funny when Homer is mean to Grandpa Simpson, it's funny when Al Bundy is mean to fat women and it's funny when Peter Griffin is mean to Meg. Imagine watching Rick & Morty and sympathizing with fucking Jerry, a cartoon character where the entire joke is he's weak, cowardly and totally inept at everything.
I've got me one of them fancy arts degrees too, Mr. Renegade. If you really want to intellectiluize the mean = funny dynamic, it helps people achieve an emotional catharsis by releasing pent up emotions from being forced to deal with people they dislike every day by the drudgery of modern life, in the same way I would guess Mr. Renegade probably laughs at mean jokes about Donald Trump. Everyone knows someone spineless and inept like Jerry. Everyone is totally annoyed by that person. A cartoon character that you can laugh at provides a way to release repressed negative feelings toward that person in a manner that has zero actual negative impact on that person. It's kind of funny that he is criticizing retarded Rick & Morty fans who think they're intelligent for watching a cruel show about space farts while simotaniously lacking any kind emotional intelligence, and then seemingly tries to paint himself as emotionally intelligent while simultaneously lacking the emotional intelligence to realize that this kind of cathartic release is important to people's sanity.