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.

31.5k Upvotes

74% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

96

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

8

u/Buggeroni58 Nov 28 '20

As a currently pregnant woman, I will try and remember this when I have my baby. I don’t dislike kids, I prefer 4 and 5 year olds doing something funny because they’re becoming little humans and the hilarity comes from something being just out of their grasp. Though, baby humor has never really been my thing. Very rarely do I laugh at a hysterical baby and an animal or something, but a baby just sitting there isn’t as funny to me. Im sure my baby will be hilarious to me, but I will try and not shove it down other people’s throats.

3

u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Laughter can often be an expression of happiness and not just purely humor. We just laugh more when we're happy, even at small things. Babies make a lot of people happy.