u/EmpiricalSyndicalist

I really don’t want to seem dramatic or anything but this is one of many steps to how a word turns into a buzzword, people learn a word via how other people use it instead of it’s actual definition and begin using it as a catch-all term

“Silly character is actually the strongest” trope is literally the polar opposite of “edgy” as actual edgy characters and media take themselves way too seriously, you’re not gonna see a squirrel girl comic right next to the boys in a library lmfao

Now I get it, There are absolute melvins out there who fall into the “Schrodinger’s Douchebag” category who genuinely believe what they’re saying but pretend as if it was a joke just to dodge consequences and you technically can’t prove indefinitely if they were joking or not

But I think the idea that ANY dark joke is bad is a bit overblown, If a joke has an actual setup and a punchline then that’s by definition, a joke, if it doesn’t then it’s probably an admission of fucked up beliefs, examples:
“How many police officers does it take to change a lightbulb? Zero, They just beat the room for being black”(this person is making a joke)
“Haha, Police Brutality, So funny right?”(this person thinks police brutality itself is funny)

I can get people being cautious and flinching at anything slightly insensitive and again, blame it on schrodinger’s douchebag, but pretending as if you can’t at least tell the difference between someone being a asshole and someone actually making a joke without supporting the thing in the joke is way too much of a broad and absolute claim