R.I.P 2 My Youth
Looking at the article, it seems to mean Inherently Funny Words meets Running Gag. Not that there's much to go by in the 4 sentence description.
"Polite life will fill you full of cancer." - Iggy Pop "I've seen the future, brother, it is murder." -Leonard Cohen
As the original creator of this trope, I wish to deny that this is Inherently Funny Words. It is a type of Running Gag, however.
With most tropes, examples are qualified by context. This would be very hard to do with Gag Words, since much of their humorous potential depends on their repetition out of any previously recalled context.
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"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Gentleman Troper!
Basically, Gag Words is funny words used in a work, whereas Inherently Funny Words is a long enumeration of random words that some troper finds funny. The former is a trope, the latter is not.
I think some transplanting would help, and IFW should be in the Just for Fun namespace.
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"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Gag Words is absolutely not thriving. 14 links, 14 inbounds.
Isn't this basically the same as Inherently Funny Words? At least some of the examples seem to match.