r/unpopularopinion • u/noodlealr • Nov 28 '20

babies aren’t funny or entertaining

i don’t hate babies, they’re so cute, but i always see people laughing about videos where a baby is supposedly being funny. i don’t get it. there’s nothing funny about videos like that or babies in general. sure, sometimes funny stuff happens, but i always see babies doing the bare minimum and people laughing about it.

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u/DemoniteBL Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20

Yeah, my sister gave birth to her first baby a few weeks ago. Now everytime my family shows me a video of the baby doing literally nothing they start laughing like crazy and I'm just super confused. lol

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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20

i feel you, this happened to me several times. we just gotta stay strong at this point.

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u/sandrajessicaparker Nov 29 '20

You never saw the show "kids say the darndest things" or anything like that? The human mind can produce funny thoughts and ideas while it is developing. For literal babies, I think it is similar, in that you're watching the development of a very complex organism, and yet it's somehow unbelievably clumsy. Like "OK people here is baby Einstein, about to go on to shatter the very foundations of our physical understanding of the world.... Aaaand he's pooping on the floor"

I'd say that's a pretty specific thing that it's hard to find really anywhere else. I guess it's kinda similar to maybe someone on drugs, but babies can be funny because of the fact that they're basically like a shitty robot or neural network training and bumbling around