I've done a few How To Steemit posts. It's usually just clickbait and I turn the whole thing into a trainwreck about four lines in. The humor is easier to pull off when you catch people off guard. Same with the fiction. The story seems more convincing if the reader doesn't realize it's fiction until the end. If someone was teaching me how to do this stuff, they'd tell me to do it the other way around. And that's probably why they write lessons and not humor.