This study aimed to test a hypothesis about the correlation between levels of gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism and understanding of Internet memes as a specific form of humor. Sample consisted of 45 native speakers of Russian (aged 18 - 30; 73,3 % female). The levels of Internet memes' understanding were assessed independently by two experts with the use of criteria formulated during the pilot study based on semi-structured in-depth interviews. Gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism were assessed with PhoPhiKat <30> questionnaire. J. Raven's “Standard Progressive Matrices” test was used to control the level of psychometric intelligence. Concordance of experts' scores for understanding of memes was assessed with Kendall's W. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to test the main hypothesis. We found no correlation between the scores for gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism and understanding of Internet memes. Presumably, the type of attitude towards humor does not play a significant role in understanding of comic texts.