Humnet. Corpus of digital humor in Spanish is a database created to study digital humor in Spanish and to understand how we laugh on the internet. This resource makes it possible to analyze how language evolves, how communities form around shared entertainment, and how humor reflects social trends, communicative patterns, and cultural change.
Humnet brings together different types of humorous content —such as jokes, memes, and demotivational posts— in various formats, including images, GIFs, videos, and texts circulating on social media and videos platforms such as X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, Bluesky or YouTube.
The corpus covers a period of 25 years and includes materials from 2000 to the present. In addition, it complements the multimodal database Humcor, which compiles 125 years of oral humorous production from different varieties of Spanish in Spain, Hispanic America, and Equatorial Guinea, and Humtext, which brings together humor from Spanish written publications from 1495 to the present day. Together, these digital archives offer a unified view of the evolution of humor in Spanish and make it possible to trace how tastes, themes, and humorous strategies change over time, providing a broad and comprehensive perspective on its history.