Satire doesn't need to be inaccurate. It needs to make you think about something that seems nonsensical.
The posted skit subverts the common expectation set by presenting a cure for some ailment. You'd be expecting some pill, coping strategy, or perhaps some "cleanse your body of negative energy" crystals being peddled with the promise to make you healthier, not a weapon which does quite the opposite.
The absurdity prompts you to think about it and arrive at that conclusion you did. That is the point of satire. It very often is true, but the way it packages the truth is what makes it satire.
26 Comments
SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 297d
Can't find a source for this
dracc@discuss.tchncs.de · 103 pts · 297d
I was about to say the same. Yahoo did a fact check and came to the conclusion that the headline is fake.
frunch@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 297d
(งツ)ว damn, lol
onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 296d
Now that's a name that I haven't heard in a long time
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 297d
I remember hearing about it months ago, it did happen but idk where, probably some fucking podcast.
onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 296d
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 297d
Please mark this as satire as it is fake.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d
Stop harshing my buzz dude
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 296d
Stop buzzing my harsh buddy
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Can you hear my harsh buzz?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 296d
This is satire
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 296d
This isn't satire. This is the actual cure to fascism.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 296d
what makes it satire is he was originally talking about insomnia, which in itself was absurd
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 296d
Well, I mean... It does work technically. Never insomnia issues, guaranteed.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 6 pts · 296d
Satire doesn't need to be inaccurate. It needs to make you think about something that seems nonsensical.
The posted skit subverts the common expectation set by presenting a cure for some ailment. You'd be expecting some pill, coping strategy, or perhaps some "cleanse your body of negative energy" crystals being peddled with the promise to make you healthier, not a weapon which does quite the opposite.
The absurdity prompts you to think about it and arrive at that conclusion you did. That is the point of satire. It very often is true, but the way it packages the truth is what makes it satire.
AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 297d
Helix8o8@lemy.lol · 22 pts · 297d
Lets hold him to that until the end of his life. Whenever he generates any internet traffic whatsoever, BAM. "kys"
peshmerga@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 297d
or this
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 297d
Hey Farva!
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d
You’re talking about shenanigans right?!
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 297d
free entertainment, a racist torturer dies :3
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 297d
SHENANIGANS!!!!
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 297d
so nice for him to encourage people to go to the polls and support Mamdani.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 7 pts · 297d
I love that pic, and love that scene
peshmerga@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 297d
Let’s hold him to his word
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 3 pts · 296d
Thank you for clarifying that this is satire
nebulahhh@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 296d
Shenanigans