Beyond a Joke: Multi-Angle Reasoning for Detecting and Explaining Harmful Humor in Memes· 超越笑话:多角度推理检测和解释有害幽默的框架
Internet memes intertwine visual cues, textual content, and cultural context, making them particularly challenging to interpret in scenarios where humor, sarcasm, and harmful intent coexist. These complexities highlight the need for explainable meme understanding systems that can provide reliable and structured reasoning to support both accurate classification and human interpretability. However, existing multimodal classifiers either overlook these interdependencies or provide only limited interpretability. In this paper, we introduce MAR-12, a novel framework that leverages Vision Language Models (VLMs) for meme detection and understanding in settings where humorous and hateful elements may coexist. The framework first interprets each meme through twelve structured perspectives derived f