It is still a popular troupe, just not with the new gen that exposed to twitter "self righteous".
This is going to sound very much like an excuse, and go ahead if you think so, but let me explain.
I grow up at a time where "play rough" i still just play rough. We got hurt, stand back up, laugh at it. I know my friend doesn't try to truly hurt me. We took it as training, if you will. We got accustomed to pain, and we laugh when others get hurt. But we know when to laugh and when to not. There are some who basked in the pain of others, but most would just see it as them learning what pain is and laugh with them to lessen the pain.
There is a reason why old people often says that the generation has gotten weak. Because in their view, it does.
But for me, who grow up in the gen gap, knows that it's not people got weaker, just more sensitive. I know that not everyone could tough it up, and laughing at others suffering has become misused and misinterpreted. The old gen, laugh at pain because that's the only thing they could to lessen it and they laugh at the "comedy gag" because it was a reflex for them. It also help that people generally know no one truly harmed there, so it became an excuse to actually laugh to their heart content.
The problem now is that those who got laugh at because of others basked in their pain. Those people find solace in online when they can't voice their frustration IRL. That is fine. But what's not fine is them displacing their frustration and projecting it onto others online. Now, when someone is hurt because of their friend and they both laugh it out, people online would quick to judge and cancel the friend that did the hurt, even when they are just play rough with no one actually hurt. This trend grows, people start finding like minded online, and others started to have to tiptoed when online. Younger audience who saw this, slowly accept that there is no such thing as "play rough". And now, we see people who complain at every little thing.
2015 is pretty much the last year for the troupe to still be seen as funny since after that, the new gen is the one in control of the creative production