<![CDATA[The growing consumption of religious humor on TikTok has introduced new ways for students to cope with academic pressure, particularly during the final stages of their studies. However, scholarly understanding of how such content relates to academic fatigue remains limited. This study aims to explore how final-year students perceive religious humor content and how it contributes to their experience of academic fatigue. Employing a qualitative phenomenological approach, this research involved 12 graduate students selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings reveal that religious humor content functions as a form of digital coping, providing emotional relief, mood regulation, and cognitive reframing of academic stress. Students perceive such content as a “mental break” that helps reduce tension and maintain psychological balance. At the same time, the study identifies an ambivalent dynamic: while the content offers short-term relief, it can also lead to distraction, procrastination, and, in some cases, discomfort due to the simplification of religious values. Furthermore, the positive effects are often temporary and do not address the root causes of academic fatigue. This study contributes to the literature by conceptualizing religious humor as a hybrid form of digital coping that integrates entertainment, spirituality, and everyday emotional experience. It also highlights the complex, context-specific relationship among media, religion, and mental well-being, emphasizing the need for a more nuanced understanding of digital religious practices in contemporary academic life.]]>
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