“snicker”
This word best describes the quality of a great number of the mocking, “cloaked” humor that has evolved on this thread.
Snicker—yes, that’s the right word.
SNICKER: (Webster) to laugh in a sly or partly stifled manner, as in disrespect or embarrassment”
Go with partly stifled & disrespect. I didn’t think it merited a guffaw.
Satire-
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.