When Jokes Cross the Line: Analyzing Regular Humor and Dark Humor in YouTube Shorts 文章

ArXiv CS.CV2026-06-02NEWSen作者: Sydney Johns, Sanjeev Parthasarathy, Shantnu Bhalla, Vaibhav Garg

摘要

arXiv:2606.00046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video platforms such as YouTube have reshaped how users engage with entertainment and information, emphasizing brief, highly engaging content such as Shorts. Within this ecosystem, certain content occupies a gray area where it remains allowed but may still have unintended negative effects on some audiences. To study this problem, we introduce TwistedHumor, a dataset of 1,211 YouTube Shorts paired with 33,041 related comments, with hand annotations for humor presence, humor type, harm, topic, rhetorical devices, and stand up context. Beyond dataset creation, we present a multi view analysis of how humor and harm appear in short form social media. Using LLooM based concept induction over video descriptions, we find that dark humor frequently clusters around themes of critique, coping, awkwardness, and identity expression rather than appearing as a single uniform category.