So a week ago, YouTube started recommending me some HAWP videos. HAWP is short for Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin' and it's a brainchild of siblings Anthony and Ashly Burch (one is a Borderlands 1/2 writer and other is a voice actress). It's a web-series of short comedy sketches making fun of games, industry, and whatnot.

Long story short, I decided to finally check out some of the videos and holy cannoli......this has to be most painfully unfunny stuff I've ever seen in my life. Ashly talks way too fast, bugs her eyes out randomly for no reason, Anthony has zero acting skills and every sketch ends up with some speaker blasting chiptune noise.

I sat there confused for a while. How is this even remotely funny? Maybe I'm witnessing a peak performance of ironic comedy (so-unfunny-that-now-it's-funny)? Do some of us get teleported in some near identical parallel Earth where unfunny stuff tend to be funny for a few minutes? Stranger things have happened. For one reason or another, no matter how hard I tried, I just didn't get any of the stuff I've seen there.

Anyway, that got me curious. Have you ever stumbled upon some web-series/artist/TV show that you just don't get? Do share with me, I'm curious to know.

P.S. Just to give you an idea of what I had to go through, here are some of the HAWP videos I've watched:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7XLhizhcfk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oJtfULZj0Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNKxAy049w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2fpX7b1iE
Thought-provoking stuff for sure.

6 years ago

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I don't get negativity as a way of life.

6 years ago
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It's been around for a long time, and I started watching from near the beginning. It's probably different if you don't. And yes, there's hits and definitely some misses. They are basically playing caricatures of themselves (very exaggerated, not meant to be realistic at all), and it's homemade low (zero) budget stuff. It's okay if it's not funny to you though. Different people have different senses of humor.

6 years ago
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Supernatural.

Everybody was so hyped about it, so I started watching it for two whole seasons. The plotholes were that big, I felt intellectually offended, the story so sense- and meaningless, the jokes unfunny, the characters bland, I really wondered why everybody likes it so much. Two half-cute chaps really make them people freak out?

I don't get it.

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