• DarkThoughts
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    18 months ago

    “I know people saw a character that I played do some really extreme things on The Boys and I don’t care if you’re in costume, I don’t care if you’re in character – it’s not OK and it’s not funny to demand those things from me in person at my booth. It’s not OK.”

    “Frankly, to the person who did that repeatedly today, I made it pretty clear that it wasn’t OK and that only seemed to make this person and their friend angry. I didn’t think this needed to be explained but I was deeply uncomfortable – it was quite clear I was uncomfortable.”

    Homelander cosplayers, huh? Who would’ve thought about that…

      • @[email protected]
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        08 months ago

        Holy fucking lol what

        ^i have never watched this show and have no context at all for this information^

        • maegul (he/they)
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          -18 months ago

          Yea, there’s a scene in the latest season that involves her character breast feeding a grown man (who’s the show’s parody of Superman, and also kinda alt-right leaders/politicians, no less).

          What strikes me as particularly dumb, apart from not recognising that the show is satire, is that her character’s motivation was to get ahead by pleasing the man in charge. Which means, even if she were in character, and ok with the ridiculous idea of providing or pretending to provide breast milk, she’d have no interest in providing any breast milk to anyone.

    • The Pantser
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      18 months ago

      Article doesn’t say but there is a good chance by the context.

  • Silverseren
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    08 months ago

    The Boys has a lot of super creepy right-wingers who idolize the fascist characters in the show, totally oblivious that the show is making fun of them and those characters.

    It’s super weird that they’re that dumb, but combined with that is just how weird and disturbing they are as people because of that.

    • Suspiciousbrowsing
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      08 months ago

      That’s actually incredible. It was extremely obvious they were taking the piss out of the right… Kind of alarming if that wasn’t picked up on by some

      • @[email protected]
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        08 months ago

        These are the same folk who think the Colbert Report wasn’t satire or get upset that wolfenstein’s Twitter account promoted a new game about killing Nazis (all the wolfenstein games are about killing nazis).

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            -18 months ago

            These idiots didn’t even say “woke”, they said “political”. They’ve never processed any part of Rage lyrics other than “fuck you, won’t do what you told me”.

          • @[email protected]
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            I don’t understand? Why did ratm have to get political?, why couldn’t they just stick to their music?

      • @[email protected]
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        -18 months ago

        Being oblivious to reality is a feature of Republicanism.

        Take rights away from 50% of the population, be surprised that the vast majority of women don’t like rights being taken away.

      • Silverseren
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        -28 months ago

        No, they really don’t see it. And they instead idolize Homelander and think he’s the one that’s correct in the show and doing what’s right and what they want to do.

        • @[email protected]
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          -18 months ago

          I have literally never seen anyone idolize homelander. This is like Marilyn Manson getting his ribs removed so he could suck his own dick: often repeated, never substantiated

      • @[email protected]
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        -18 months ago

        The push to get trump on the GOP ballot started as the largest troll in 4chan history.

        Halfway through, the ones in on the joke got swarmed by morons who thought it was serious.

        But man, literally the everest of trolls, was almost beautiful to watch.

    • @[email protected]
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      -18 months ago

      As a matter of fact, satire does not work. Fascists will idolize the fascists in satire, always. It feels like satire only works with people who already have an education about the dangers of fascism.

      In the broken mind of a fascist, satire is actually a kind of utopia. It’s how the world is supposed to be in their twisted ideals.

      • I Cast Fist
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        -18 months ago

        I feel like the only satire that works is full blown, overt caricature, like the WW2 propaganda cartoons

      • @[email protected]
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        -18 months ago

        Poe’s Law per Wikipedia

        Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

      • @[email protected]
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        -18 months ago

        One day we’ll have a movie that starts with a warning like:

        This movie is satire. If you actually relate to and agree with the ideas presented in this film, please seek professional help.

        • EchoCranium
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          -18 months ago

          Unfortunately it would get paid as much attention as the FBI warnings about piracy being illegal.

    • @[email protected]
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      -18 months ago

      Star Trek has a similar subset of fans that are all like “When did Star Trek get all woke? More pew pew!”

      Try 1966