The present study’s aim is to examine short narrative texts, jokes, and flash fiction written or performed by young Kuwaiti writers, artists, bloggers, and social media influencers, with focusing on texts that include hidden messages reflecting their reaction to the pandemic—whether positive or negative. In addition, the study will investigate the self-narration, representation, and the differentiation between the “I” as Kuwaiti citizens and the “Other” as foreigners who live in the Kuwaiti society and who has been treated as the ‘imagined enemy’ who was the main cause of the COVID-19 pandemic during the last three years. This study draws on reader response theory by Todd Davis and Kenneth Womack, and humor techniques from N. Roukes’ Humor in Art book to analyze the writer-message-reader matrix. It examines elements of sarcasm and irony, as these are not so much verbally expressed as subtly suggested. Hence, this study focuses on two functions regarding people’s behavior and sociability, namely humor for a positive purpose and advocacy to confront fear and anxiety by mocking a position, political decision, or a certain social reaction. For that purpose, I chose to analyze jokes distributed via social media and a Kuwaiti artist’s Bader bῑn Ghaith cartoon drawings. The methodology of this paper is to observe hidden messages as kind of psychological stress relief through humor during the pandemic (e.g., published narrative texts on Twitter and Instagram) that carries justified components of aggression, as Freud described it, noting that humor can be analyzed via two key components: (1) instinctive material, usually sexual or aggressive, and (2) the formal structure or technique providing excuses or social tolerance for provoking such taboo and socially suppressed feelings. Such jokes allow others to share unacceptable tendencies in twisted ways, and an aggressive person may express his or her feelings of humor rather than expressing them explicitly. In conclusion, we can examine humor as an expression tool related to a particular social activity or event and the surrounding environment. Additionally, the extent to which society receives humor can be viewed as a type of collective expression. For example, a person not only tells the joke to himself but must share it with others who can absorb and decipher its meaning to complete the joke’s position and intended purpose.