Sorry, this reply is going to sound ultra dry, but I would like to explain why I phrased it that way and why I think it's accurate. It is clear that these story events are meant to be taken as actual instances of abuse in story context, but they are also presented with elements of the extremely absurd and farcical, to the point where it feels like they were trying to make the abusive situations silly and goofy on purpose by invoking various paraphilias that are commonly used as humorous topics online. Which would definitely imply that they were playing it for laughs, right?