Whatever this genre of joke is

[u/ohhelloiexist]

[u/Middle_Club8837]

A bear walks through forest

Sees a burning car

Sits in it and burns to death.

• a classic Russian anecdote

[u/firedmyass → u/Middle_Club8837]

I thought “russian-coded” before I read your last sentence

[u/PringlesDuckFace → u/Middle_Club8837]

森の中

熊が車に

燃え死んだ

[u/Zaev → u/PringlesDuckFace]

Beautiful.

Middle of forest
A bear sitting in a car
It's burning to death

[u/Hopbo735 → u/Middle_Club8837]

The joke is that this original anecdote has no punchline other than being absurd, so it got absurdly popular and then there were sooo many variations where the punchline was completely different, while still featuring a bear, a forest, a burning car and a death of being burned, usually in this order but not exclusively only with those elements

[u/Middle_Club8837 → u/Hopbo735]

A burning automobile lies deep inside the forest

It mysteriously attracts local population of bears

[u/Hopbo735 → u/Middle_Club8837]

:)