HumorMs. Lucinda and Ribbitz on transbian "gender euphoria"

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[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There's a "child abuse" reporting category for YouTube videos, as it were.

[–]lunarstrain[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You can't do that to a transbian Ukrainian refugee like princess Lucinda, she's not grooming. She's just creepily targeting and forcefully encouraging the children. Two totally different things!

I hope people are aware this is satire...

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The thing is, to be successful satire it has to be different enough, wittier enough, and it has to be more lucid than the "real" (choke) thing, and every time I come across this individual that's not what I see, which is why I don't care to take this seriously as valid satire and will happily respond to it as what it appears to be. Satire needs to assume intelligence on the part of the viewer and invite them into the joke more effectively.

It's not good satire. The wrong audiences will take it seriously and this time I won't say it's their fault.

You can't send the wrong message in the process of skewering the right one and expect to hide behind the satire defense. This individual needs to up their game. But they have the same problem as The Onion—the real thing is already waaaaaay out there. It's hard to riff off of that effectively.

[–]lunarstrain[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Then "troll" might be a more apt description. For me, at least, there's entertainment in knowing that he's doing this in jest, even if it is lowbrow. The people of his target group aren't usually a bunch of high class intellectuals. Other videos as Lucinda are much more obvious in their absurdity, it's just it becomes a lot less clear when it's specifically about trans stuff. Like you said, it's hard when the individuals you've chosen are already so insane.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The people of his target group aren't usually a bunch of high class intellectuals

I think this might be the actual problem: Some of his viewers are not going to detect the absurdity.

But if he wants to be Sisyphus or Don Quixote, that's his prerogative.