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Disillusioned youth find voice in dark humour

Youths light candles in honour of victims of the June 2024 Gen Z protests, in Nakuru, on June 25, 2025. [Caroline Chebet, Standard]

From youths humorously posting their last wishes and eulogies, complete with the photos they’d like used on their epitaphs, online platforms have recently become home to a surge of darkly comic posts. Behind the satire lies a generation expressing deep frustration amid an uncertain future.

Over the past week, digital spaces have morphed into bleakly comical outlets where young people use dark humour to articulate an uncertain future and their readiness to die as killings and abductions incidents, which are synonymous with demonstrations, increase.

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