funnification

English

Etymology

fun +‎ -ification

Noun

funnification (uncountable)

1. The process of making (something) fun.
   • 2002, Renny Ramakers, Less + More: Droog Design in Context, page 219:

     Functional and economical thinking is too limited and the shallow 'funnification' of our culture that compensates for this even more so.

   • 2005 March 14, Jeremiah Scott, “1964 Ford Fairlane 500 - Fairlane Funnification”, in Motor Trend:

     (see title)

   • 2010, Hubert Hermans, ‎Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka, Dialogical Self Theory, page 291:

     The process of funnification taking place at the level of the self can be seen as analogous to the concept of "McDonalization" ^[sic] (Ritzer, 2000) on the societal level.

   • 2011, Erica Hayes, Blood Cursed, page 17:

     And then...well, the demon lord already likes Diamond's sense of funnification.

2. The process of making (something) funny.
   • 2001, Linda Woodbridge, Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature, page 20:

     Situating vagrants in comic genres, in line with long-standing literary conventions involving the social hierarchy, promoted what I will call the " funnification" of poverty.

   • 2024, Joel Morris, Be Funny or Die:

     The exciting thing is that this mental process of 'funnification' applies to stuff in familiar comic forms (a clever satirical takedown of a politician we dislike, a succinct and recognisable nailing of an everyday experience, an ingenious pun, a neat turn of phrase, a precisely observed parody), but also to mad stuff that makes us laugh like drains, but which we cannot immediately explain.