True Satire
Now, not many people realize the art behind satire.
Websters defines Satire as a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn. It's usually filled with wit and irony, and refrains from personal opinion. True satire can be taken with a grain of salt, and sometimes even be found humorous.
A small known website known as we are the mainstream claims to be a satire article site, holding subtle indignations out towards sites such as Myspace, Vampirefreaks, and Yahoo Chatrooms. In responce with this, they created WATM to prove that people could not understand true satire.
Obviously, neither could they.
Today, I'm going to do what is considered the "ultimate (dis)honor" for a satire visionary. I'm going to create a satire on WATM itself.
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The whole of WATM revolves around articles. There are many, and some are even worth a read. However, let's remember that this site was based around satire in all it's glorious forms. I think it's an absolute sad day when you think you can hide an article labled "F*ck Juggalos" behind the concept of satire, but this was the title of one of the first articles on WATM.
Now I'm all for a good rant, but rants do not apply inside the realm of satire. That's like saying sex with your mom is like sex with any other chick, because they've both got holes for you to stick it in. There is connotation in the semantics of rants. There is nothing but facts that are usually avoided in the mainstream of society, with wide held, ironic and non-insulting remarks or opinions thrown in simply for viewing pleasure. Thusly, the phrase "news flash - attention juggalos: all those bottles filled with yummy looking colors under the sink are actually faygo! drink up!" does not equal satire. I've seen better acts from Cats on broadway.
The one thing I love most of all on this site is that at least twice before you ever read an article, you get blatent "If you don't like it, F*ck off" messages. This remark has grown to be something of a trend on WATM, which is ironic as hell considering the base of thier articles. Claims of "You just don't understand." or "You're too stupid to get it." are all over the forums and articles themselves, but they continue to denounce things such as trendy teen culture or religion. Gee, I wonder what a person who lived Goth culture would say to me if I said what they were doing was stupid. I do believe it'd be something along the lines of :
Me : Why do you do this ?
Goth : Because I'm Goth.
Me : But it's stupid..
Goth : You just don't understand. (sound famaliar? *gasp!*)
News flash, WATM - You know why you get so much hate mail? It's not because people don't understand satire, it's because you're no good at writing it! The bulk of your articles revolve around generalizations and are far too personal, not to mention you're basicly picking on the weaklings of the crowd. For crying out loud, you've got rants on Juggalos, Scenesters and Myspace. While people are out trying to teach these teens how to live in life, what are you doing? calling them names like a child, whining about thier culture and trend, and since when did satire involve teaching people how to throw canned food out the window of a moving vehicle? Honestly, did your mother drop you all on your heads when you were born, or do you seirously put forth an effort for this website?
Seriously, give up the act. you've only got one article on your site that comes close to being true satire. Satire is about scorning overlooked follies or idocies, not defimation. Stop acting like teens are stupid for acting like teens. Stop trying to hide hatred behind satire, it's insulting for those who actually understand how it's done. You whine and moan about how people are so stupid because they don't understand, yet you fail to explain it every single time claiming that people are just 'too stupid'. You're like a teacher who gives out F's for a paper they never assigned. "Here ya go dumb kids, see ya next year. Maybe I'll remember my textbooks next time!"
You want to know true satire? Super Mario bros was nothing but a two bit plumber with a gay cop mustache, George Bush would sooner think Brazillian is a numerical quotent, and WATM would call a 5 year old a mooch for being fully dependent on thier parents. Get a clue.
Websters defines Satire as a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn. It's usually filled with wit and irony, and refrains from personal opinion. True satire can be taken with a grain of salt, and sometimes even be found humorous.
A small known website known as we are the mainstream claims to be a satire article site, holding subtle indignations out towards sites such as Myspace, Vampirefreaks, and Yahoo Chatrooms. In responce with this, they created WATM to prove that people could not understand true satire.
Obviously, neither could they.
Today, I'm going to do what is considered the "ultimate (dis)honor" for a satire visionary. I'm going to create a satire on WATM itself.
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The whole of WATM revolves around articles. There are many, and some are even worth a read. However, let's remember that this site was based around satire in all it's glorious forms. I think it's an absolute sad day when you think you can hide an article labled "F*ck Juggalos" behind the concept of satire, but this was the title of one of the first articles on WATM.
Now I'm all for a good rant, but rants do not apply inside the realm of satire. That's like saying sex with your mom is like sex with any other chick, because they've both got holes for you to stick it in. There is connotation in the semantics of rants. There is nothing but facts that are usually avoided in the mainstream of society, with wide held, ironic and non-insulting remarks or opinions thrown in simply for viewing pleasure. Thusly, the phrase "news flash - attention juggalos: all those bottles filled with yummy looking colors under the sink are actually faygo! drink up!" does not equal satire. I've seen better acts from Cats on broadway.
The one thing I love most of all on this site is that at least twice before you ever read an article, you get blatent "If you don't like it, F*ck off" messages. This remark has grown to be something of a trend on WATM, which is ironic as hell considering the base of thier articles. Claims of "You just don't understand." or "You're too stupid to get it." are all over the forums and articles themselves, but they continue to denounce things such as trendy teen culture or religion. Gee, I wonder what a person who lived Goth culture would say to me if I said what they were doing was stupid. I do believe it'd be something along the lines of :
Me : Why do you do this ?
Goth : Because I'm Goth.
Me : But it's stupid..
Goth : You just don't understand. (sound famaliar? *gasp!*)
News flash, WATM - You know why you get so much hate mail? It's not because people don't understand satire, it's because you're no good at writing it! The bulk of your articles revolve around generalizations and are far too personal, not to mention you're basicly picking on the weaklings of the crowd. For crying out loud, you've got rants on Juggalos, Scenesters and Myspace. While people are out trying to teach these teens how to live in life, what are you doing? calling them names like a child, whining about thier culture and trend, and since when did satire involve teaching people how to throw canned food out the window of a moving vehicle? Honestly, did your mother drop you all on your heads when you were born, or do you seirously put forth an effort for this website?
Seriously, give up the act. you've only got one article on your site that comes close to being true satire. Satire is about scorning overlooked follies or idocies, not defimation. Stop acting like teens are stupid for acting like teens. Stop trying to hide hatred behind satire, it's insulting for those who actually understand how it's done. You whine and moan about how people are so stupid because they don't understand, yet you fail to explain it every single time claiming that people are just 'too stupid'. You're like a teacher who gives out F's for a paper they never assigned. "Here ya go dumb kids, see ya next year. Maybe I'll remember my textbooks next time!"
You want to know true satire? Super Mario bros was nothing but a two bit plumber with a gay cop mustache, George Bush would sooner think Brazillian is a numerical quotent, and WATM would call a 5 year old a mooch for being fully dependent on thier parents. Get a clue.
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