Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana!
On my open source project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash), there's a nyan cat that move around whenever the app takes more than 1s to load. I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it
To see the nyan cat moving around your screen, you got to throttle the bandwidth: https://demo.filestash.app/
Humour is subjective, and whether you found them funny or not didn't really matter. They were just stupid little jokes for you to read while Discord is doing something.
Perfectly harmless, and adds a bit of charm to the app.
There are so many different varieties of sense of humor. It varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person.
It's one thing if a joke is actually harmful, of course. But, beyond that, I'd say that denigrating someone else's way of being whimsical is a specific subspecies of taking yourself too seriously.
The person you are responding to did not denigrated anything.
He responded to claim that if someone does not like those messages, then he "take himself too seriously". The response simple explained that author find those jokes unfunny.
As you said, humor varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person. That implies that not liking some kind of humor is completely valid sentiment.
There's a difference, though, between simply not liking some kind of humor, and publicly making fun of it.
I generally think that this advice is over-simplistic, but this tends to be a situation where the, "If you can't say anything nice, just don't say anything," principle really is a good rule of thumb.
If you insult someone for not liking the humor, it fair play from them to make fun of you back. And that comment was not making fun, it was expressing how that humor comes off.
Because what you want here is one sided "one side get to insult the other, but other is expected to not even express their opinion."
I'll throw in my 2c and say that I thought they were just fine. I wasn't verbally guffawing at their Sims-esque loading humor but the first time I saw it I thought "oh heh they're doing the sims thing" and then literally never thought overmuch about it again.
I really don't take myself seriously at all but I find such things in software more annoying than humorous because it's distracting (the reason for me was because I have to reprogram my behaviour to ignore said loading messages rather than view them as actionable items). Streamlabs is another with stupid loading messages. Such things aren't annoying enough to stop me using their software but it certainly not something I get kick out of seeing.
I'd also add festival themed icons too. The whole VSCode trolling a few years back might have been overblown but the end result was for the better imo. I find it distracting having seasonal icons and the fewer distractions I can find in my productivity tools the better.
Yeah. It always falls flat for me, like the "Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" messages you get when some web pages break down.
