Mainstream social platforms have become hostile to humor. On Reddit, on X, and on everything shaped like them, edgy jokes, satire, and irreverent roleplay are routinely suppressed, tone-policed, or met with bans — usually by systems that cannot tell a bit from a belief, and increasingly by audiences that have stopped trying.
So the funniest people online sorted themselves into two bad options. Anonymous boards offer total freedom and nothing else: no identity, no craft, no reputation, nothing that survives the thread. Mainstream platforms offer identity with no freedom: your real name is attached, so the joke has to be safe enough to be read literally, out of context, by a stranger, in six months, in a screenshot.
Neither of those is a comedy venue. One is a wall to shout at and the other is a company party. A large and genuinely underserved audience — the people whose humor does not fit anywhere else, the “I would get banned for this on Reddit” crowd — has had no dedicated home at all.