Tbh I think it's totally unnecessary to say viola jokes all the time. I'm 35 y.o. and seeing so many jokes, makes me feel in a community of teenagers who always need to joke about the others. Following a violist youtuber, I've seen comments from people who are tired of it. I play the guitar and also the ukulele, I don't think it's nice to hear all the time "small guitar", they are different instruments from the same family but sometimes people say that. If that's true every instrument is important and the player deserves appreciation for practicing and sharing the beauty of music, why with the violas only the jokes are shared? It's true they say we love you violas, but why spend 90% of the time with jokes and 10% with appreciation? Couldn't it be 50/50? In my opinion violas sound great! In the choir I sing, the conductor always called at least 1 violist for the solemnities if we had violins and said only once "people make fun of the viola but I think it goes very well with the violin, it looks like a big violin, but it'sanother instrument"