Gelotophiles are people who actively seek and establish situations in which others may laugh at them.
Gelotophiles speak frankly about misfortunes and mishaps but also about situations in which they acted stupidly or produced something that was involuntarily funny.
Typically, they would not mind if they were caught on camera while something funny (yet potentially embarrassing) happened to them and this was sent to a TV program that shows such clips or if it was uploaded to websites such as YouTube or the like.
The empirical study of gelotophilia started in 2009 when the first academic paper on this topic has been published.
[2][3][4] Gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism describe three different stances towards laughter and laughing at.