Cards Against Humanity, the dark-humor card game for adults, is one of Kickstarter's biggest success stories — the game went viral after raising $15,000 on the site in 2011. Since then, dozens of copycats have proliferated, usually selling "unofficial expansion packs" to the game that use the exact same gameplay with a specific angle.
Almost all of the card games lean into a random, shock-value brand of humor reminiscent of meme culture circa 2014.
"These games get churned out like once every week," Farrar said. "They just have a sense of humor that I don't share, where it's like 'Wacky Unicorn saves the day, and here's a card where it's the unicorn's booger' or whatever."
Copycats of Cards Against Humanity over the years have included Guards Against Insanity, Crabs Adjust Humidity, Cards Against Originality, and Humanity Hates Trump. The original Cards Against Humanity has begun taking legal action against copycats, according to Kotaku.
None of the creators of these games responded to Business Insider.