Could being funny be the most flexible personality trait?

[Normieville]

I feel like being funny gives you more social mobility/allowances in comparison to traits like being charming, charismatic, intellectual, confident etc. The fact that people pay to see some ugly douche be funny on stage is evidence of this. Thoughts?

 

[Blackout.xl]

Cope. If u don’t have looks you’ll be seen as the ugly guy who makes everyone laugh

 

[ChoSeungHui]

 

[Deleted member 2846]

Being genuinely funny is rare tbh. It’s either you come off as annoy or you’re funny. There’s really no in between.

 

[Normieville]

Cope. If u don’t have looks you’ll be seen as the ugly guy who makes everyone laugh

But isn't the ugly guy who makes people laugh higher status than the ugly guy who isn't?

Being genuinely funny is rare tbh. It’s either you come off as annoy or you’re funny. There’s really no in between.

So you'd agree that being genuinely funny is a halo?

 

[Blackout.xl]

But isn't the ugly guy who makes people laugh higher status than the ugly guy who isn't?

So you'd agree that being genuinely funny is a halo?

He’s higher status sure but that’s like a man with 5$ being richer than a man with 0$. Difference isn’t much

 

[Slayer]

Being genuinely funny is rare tbh. It’s either you come off as annoy or you’re funny. There’s really no in between.

This was always my problem. I would always try being funny to compensate for my lack of social skills, but I would come off as annoying because I hadn't developed an acceptable sense of humor yet, or at least that's what I thought the problem was.

The reality, as I began to find out, was as puberty started making me better looking, my jokes suddenly became funnier too. But my mind is so fucked up from the initial social rejection in my early high school years that I developed avoidant tendencies regardless of how people treat me now.

 

[BigBoy]

This was always my problem. I would always try being funny to compensate for my lack of social skills, but I would come off as annoying because I hadn't developed an acceptable sense of humor yet, or at least that's what I thought the problem was.

The reality, as I began to find out, was as puberty started making me better looking, my jokes suddenly became funnier too. But my mind is so fucked up from the initial social rejection in my early high school years that I developed avoidant tendencies regardless of how people treat me now.

The opposite happened to me

I was known as "the funny guy" in elementary/middle school but became the awkward unfunny kid in high school. But my looks stayed exactly the same.

 

[Deleted member 2846]

This was always my problem. I would always try being funny to compensate for my lack of social skills, but I would come off as annoying because I hadn't developed an acceptable sense of humor yet, or at least that's what I thought the problem was.

The reality, as I began to find out, was as puberty started making me better looking, my jokes suddenly became funnier too. But my mind is so fucked up from the initial social rejection in my early high school years that I developed avoidant tendencies regardless of how people treat me now.

A brutal realitypill is everyone has a different perception of you. To some people you are funny, to others you’re annoying, to others you’re invisible.

Your close friends probably think you’re funny, but your acquaintances and friends you don’t hang out with as much may think you’re not funny. Everyone has a different opinion of you especially if they don’t know you like your close friends.

 

[Deleted member 1751]

Just be an introvert theory

 

[Deleted member 4209]

being "funny" = being gl

eugene tells a joke = everyone leaves room awkwardly
chad tells same joke = everyone laughs