There are subs like /r/roastme where people post pictures of themselves then other users roast them.
Roasting seems to involve saying mean things. The jokes are usually about alleged abandonment by their fathers, or fat jokes, or some other joke targeting their appearance.
The thing is I love comedy. I take comedy very seriously. I don’t take myself very seriously but cheap jokes like these are something that I don’t find funny but that could just be due to quirks in my sense of humour.
Then there is the whole assymetrical nature of the ordeal. The roasters are anonymous so the roastee cannot retaliate with a comedic roast of their own but that could also just be the nature of what a roast is.
In the end I just find it something that is not only unnecessarily mean but also not funny. But it is something that the roastee’s volunteer to so I don’t find it rage inducing.
What do you all make of roasting?
Roasting of complete strangers such as on the mentioned subreddit sucks because it isn’t funny. Nobody there is clever and most of the insults they use could be applied to basically anyone
Roasting your friends is a valuable form of bonding and can help resolve social conflicts before they actually become serious conflicts