• @eyeon
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    114 hours ago

    it’s frustrating that people react and spread misinformation without doing the bare minimum of research, but I don’t think making obvious satire is frustrating. if anything hopefully people learn from it and stop taking screenshots of things as truths

    • @macattack
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      110 hours ago

      True.

      I think that as we move towards shorter and shorter clips/tweets, there’s an assumed prior context that is often missing. For example, Borat or Stephen Colbert’s character on The Daily Show are clear caricatures but when you have a 5-second clip out of context, it actually feeds into the narrative it is ridiculing.

      The same goes for naming cosplaying an elected official.