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Poe's Law

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Poe's Law	comment	The core idea of Poe's Law is that a parody of something extreme can be mistaken for the real thing, and if a real thing sounds extreme enough, it can be mistaken for a parody (all because parodies are intrinsically extreme, in case you haven't noticed it). This can also happen to someone whose picture of the opposing position is such a grotesque caricature that it renders them unable to tell parody from reality. Reality and parody are further blended by the fact that something that started as a parody might turn into a Windmill Political that some people take as gospel and go to a very serious (if not literal) war. According to Rational Wiki, Poe's Law was formulated by Nathan Poe, referring to the Flame Wars on Christian forums where Creationism vs. Evolution was discussed: Many users posted parody comments, which were followed by both angry and supportive replies. Poe phrased his law thus: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article." As far as we know, nothing to do with Edgar Allan Poe. While Poe's Law referred originally to religious fundamentalists, it can also equally apply to austere atheism, steely socialism or communism, crazy capitalism, extreme environmentalism, fanatic feminism, crackers correctness, or indeed, absolutely any other debate where controversy runs high and at least one position is particularly extreme, such as the infamous North Korean Twitter feed that got mistaken for the real thing. A similar notion was named "The Harry Golden Rule" by Calvin Trillin: "The Harry Golden Rule, properly stated, is that in present-day America it's very difficult, when commenting on events of the day, to invent something so bizarre that it might not actually come to pass while your piece is still on the presses." See Stealth Parody, which this law tends to undermine. Don't Explain the Joke is one of the possible outcomes of this law. Parody Retcons attempt to appeal to this, as does the "Just Joking" Justification. If a work actually becomes popular as a result of this law, that's Misaimed Fandom. If you are trying to invoke this trope to get people to believe something you just made up to feign legitimacy, it's a Bavarian Fire Drill. Many a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer is used to avoid this trope. The Horseshoe Effect is closely related, as it concerns statements which are so radical and extreme, it's difficult to tell whether they're coming from the far-left or the far-right. Compare Doublethink, Insult Backfire, Isn't It Ironic?, Propaganda Piece, Sarcasm-Blind, and Some of My Best Friends Are X. To really turn this trope into a brain-twister, compare it with Death of the Author. See also The Tyson Zone and Aluminum Christmas Trees. See Indecisive Parody for works that can't quite decide if they're parodies or sincere and so attempt to have it both ways.
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Poe's Law / int_1099a6ac	comment	At one point, there was a popular image macro making the rounds on Facebook which made fun of fans of Fight Club who supposedly contradict Tyler's "don't talk about Fight Club" mantra by... well, talking about Fight Club. In the film itself, Tyler coins that saying specifically because he knows people will disobey it, and thus expand his sphere of influence.
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Poe's Law / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock had a large faction of fans claiming that the fourth series would actually have four episodes rather than just three, a theory that became increasingly popular in the fanbase after the third episode and apparent series finale aired. Many argued that the episode was so laughably implausible, answered so few questions, and featured so many bizarre events that it couldn't be real, and was intended to seem like an impossible and nonsensical story to clue in the audience, and therefore the fourth episode would explain it to all be some kind of dream or hoax or false reality and provide a "proper" conclusion. A week later, that faction of the fanbase discovered that Apple Tree Yard (which replaced Sherlock in its timeslot) was a real show, and the episode was not, in fact, written poorly on purpose.
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Poe's Law / int_1463a028	comment	The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Raw" has Stabler and Munch trace a weapon used in a school shooting to a gun store that also turns out to be a front for a white supremacist/neo-Nazi group. The owner and his son are more subdued in their racism, being able to hold relatively polite conversations with the police, whereas the woman they hired as extra help is by far more openly and obnoxiously racist, going so far as to refuse to give her name when the group eventually gets taken to court. Then the son pulls a gun in the courtroom and starts blasting, and the woman pulls a gun in return to kill him in self-defense - and it turns out she is actually an undercover FBI agent under an alias.
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Poe's Law / int_17e6cb15	comment	Bojack Horseman: Sarah Lynn's teen pop musical career was a long-winded critique of the teen-pop mindset (e.g. "My Heinie Isn't Too Tiny"). However, her demographic were supporters of that lifestyle and not wanting to lose them, she walked the line by settling on Indecisive Deconstructive Parodies. This left her very disillusioned over her fans and how she was perceived and heard, which was the beginning of a long, painful burnout...
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Poe's Law / int_18be2615	comment	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an infamously over-the-top parody of sexploitation films. However, when screenwriter and director Roger Ebert and Russ Meyer later met the Sex Pistols, they were nonplussed when Johnny Rotten expressed his admiration for the movie because it was so true to life.
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Poe's Law / int_19ac548b	comment	In one Sid the Sexist strip, Sid managed to score a bird on Blind Date because she thought he was a comedian and only pretended to be a perverted Geordie stereotype.
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Poe's Law / int_19d5167b	comment	The cancellation of Chappelle's Show and Chappelle's subsequent Creator Backlash response was due to a growing Misaimed Fandom of racist white viewers.
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Poe's Law / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	Batman (1966) was a very popular comedy show in its day, but a surprisingly large number of modern-day viewers assume that it was meant to be a serious adventure show. This included Neil Hamilton, the portrayer of Commissioner Gordon, who would get annoyed if he saw other actors cracking up on set. Part of the reason is the show's extremely heavy use of The Comically Serious; for all the nuttiness surrounding Batman, he always treated the events of the series with utter straight-laced professionalism, even if it was declaring that the answer to a riddle was "A sparrow with a machinegun!"
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Poe's Law / int_1b82328b	comment	Liturgy had always been a polarizing band, but by the time of the release of their third album The Ark Work, even the relatively positive reviews of the album said they couldn't tell if the album was intended completely seriously, or if the band were trolling their listeners.
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Poe's Law / int_1b958797	comment	In a Checkerboard Nightmare arc, the titular character creates a children's show centered entirely around promoting himself and his merchandise. Said Merchandise-Driven nature is so transparent that the show becomes a hit amongst teenagers and young adults who mistake it for biting satire (the fact that Chex could only afford for the show to be run on a 4AM timeslot didn't help).
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Poe's Law / int_1c63e768	comment	Heathers (of which Mean Girls is a sort of Lighter and Softer Spiritual Successor) was originally meant to be nothing more than a spoof of high school shooting cases, even taking place in suburban Ohio to make things all the more ridiculous. Many people, however, interpreted the film as a genuine deconstruction of high school cliques and teen movie clichÃ©s, and it was soon branded a top-tier high school movie.
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Poe's Law / int_21e1640f	comment	JonTron accuses Soulja Boy of this when the man had the audacity to not only release a console that was just a Dolled-Up Installment of an existing emulation box with an inflated price tag, and not only sell it loaded with ROMs of copyrighted Nintendo games, but even retweeted someone pointing out how the device would play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Jon is so blown away by the man doing something so blatantly illegal and asking for trouble (and yes, Nintendo was on Soulja Boy's ass within the month) that he's convinced the whole thing must be a joke:
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Poe's Law / int_222736a	comment	There are still people who have to have it pointed out to them that A Modest Proposal is not intended literally. A Modest Proposal was Jonathan Swift's satirical essay that suggested solving the problem of working-class children in Ireland being a drag on their parents by selling them as food to rich people. Most interpretations read it as a satire of British attitudes towards the working class of Ireland. It created a scandal because some people didn't get the joke (Swift intended a scandal, but not like that). Modern readers who take it seriously justify their stance with Swift's misanthropy and deteriorating mental condition later in his life. At the time of the writing, however, he had no such attitudes or problems.
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Poe's Law / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" satirized the trend of TV networks trying to make spinoffs and successor series that are frequently inferior to the original show (this episode predated Futurama and Seth MacFarlane's animated shows), with all three segments deliberately badly scripted, bland and cheesy. However, some fans mistook the Stylistic Suck for actual bad writing. Matt Groening was worried that fans would react that way. This happened mostly due to two reasons: This wasn't the first episode that gave some of the Springfield recurring characters A Day in the Limelight; the previous season had the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield", which also served as the pilot for a potential spinoff titled "Tales of Springfield", albeit that one had the series' usual tone and none of the (intentional) bad writing this episode had. Second, many of the younger viewers had no idea the shorts were meant to be a parody of existing shows, since, at least in the second and third short's case, were based on decades-old works that had very short runs (for a good reason) and thus were pretty obscure. Lisa being replaced by a Dumb Blonde teen in the third segment came as particularly baffling to some, not realizing something like that happened in The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. "Saddlesore Galactica" satirised the show's own Seasonal Rot and tranformation into a much less grounded series, and wasn't intended to be taken seriously. Despite Comic Book Guy being used to hammer home that this was a parody, many fans missed the joke and it's widely considered to be among the worst episodes in the series.
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Poe's Law / int_288ab9e4	comment	Because of the way Norman Boutin responds to his detractors for Empress Theresa, it is inevitable that he will respond to almost any criticism in a highly dismissive fashion. Due to this, it is almost impossible to tell who is Norman and who is just pretending to be Norman on the Empress Theresa Wiki, as the comments are filled with mass numbers of accounts all using similar names with ever-increasing numbers on the end. It's at the point where a trolling attempt may go entirely over the head of any user on the site and they just assume it has to be Norman.
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Poe's Law / int_2891585b	comment	The Rap Critic states this as the problem with Kesha: She's supposedly a parody of current music, but when "serious" artists are making songs that are just as ridiculous, it's hard to tell.
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Poe's Law / int_28c6afce	comment	They parodied social justice warriors in a column about how Thomas & Friends is racist, sexist, and transphobic, right?
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Poe's Law / int_28f30dc9	comment	Russian film-maker Anton Ilmyanov was disconcerted to see videos showing UFOs and putative "sky-beasts" living in Earth's upper atmosphere appearing on ufology websites as proof positive that not only UFOs but the fabled "sky beasts" existed. The reason for his disconcertment was simple: he had created the videos himself as educational exercises, demonstrating how ridiculously easy it is to fake these things with modern technology. Even though he had clearly labelled his work as deliberate fakes that should not be taken as real, and the whole point of making them had been to demonstrate how such things can be faked, they had still ended up with the UFO-nuts anyway. Even today they are still out there, with some commentators explaining that Ilmanyov has clearly been "got at" by Them and forced to denounce the films... see Fortean Times, FT329, July 2015)
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Poe's Law / int_2b727723	comment	Reddit: The site has an entire subreddit devoted to people believing satirical articles, and another one devoted to true news stories that could just as easily come from places like The Onion. The r/pyongyang subreddit is either an English-language mouthpiece for North Korean propaganda or an extremely dedicated parody of one. Nobody is sure which. r/MURICA started out as a satire of over-the-top Patriotic Fervor. It slowly morphed into a sub dedicated to genuine patriotic fervor, albeit still very self-aware. Sometimes the original ridicule pops up now and then though.
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Poe's Law / int_2c430670	comment	Housos is a Black Comedy of Australia's working-class bludgers (i.e. the working-class who don't work). Two current affairs programs aired hard-hitting 'exposÃ©s' on this offensive new Reality Show. Interestingly, when they realized the show was fake they tried a new angle, complaining about tax-payers money being used to subsidize filth. The show's home channel, SBS, raised all the funds itself. All in all, the Housos creator was happy at the hilarious free publicity, while the current affairs shows got publicity of the wrong kind altogether.
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Poe's Law / int_2d01f8dc	comment	In the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Buttniks," they wander into a coffee shop and witness a poetry slam. Butt-Head goes on stage and deliberately stinks up the joint to the annoyance of the crowd. Beavis drinks lots of cappuccino (or, as he called it, "Crappuccino") and turns into the Great Cornholio and goes off on an insane incoherent rant. The audience loves it and call it "groundbreaking stuff," instead of recognizing it as the babblings of an overcaffeinated psycho.
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Poe's Law / int_2dab4fef	comment	Snopes has numerous examples of rumors that were sparked by articles from these and more.
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Poe's Law / int_336abfb3	comment	John Legend did a cover of "Baby it's Cold Outside", while changing some lyrics to make the man call a taxi so that the woman can go home. The commenters can't decide on whether it was an attempt to "clean up" the original song (which is commonly mistaken for being about Date Rape when actually the woman was portrayed as wanting to stay with the man but feeling pressured to leave), or a parody of the people who thought the original song was about rape. Some of the people who thought it was a parody point out the awkward rhyme of "scurry" with "Murray", who's apparently the name of the driver.
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Poe's Law / int_34e71667	comment	Brass Eye, which hoodwinked British celebrities into participating in fictional public information films, culminating in a Member of the British Parliament raising a question in the House of Commons about the ludicrous made-up drug "cake".
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Poe's Law / int_355a1bef	comment	Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles (found here), allegedly written by a Christian mom. Some believe that the author is dead serious, while others are convinced that it's blatant satire. The final chapter reveals it all to be a troll, though, with the author (through Voldemort) not-so-subtly calling out everyone who thought it was legit.
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Poe's Law / int_35a060cc	comment	Airplane! was actually an adaptation of a serious airplane disaster movie called Zero Hour!. While obviously a lot of jokes were added, most of the script - Ted and Elaine's Glurge filled romance, the goofy premise, the fish poisoning, the sick little kid - is lifted straight from Zero Hour!, where it was all played completely unironically. It's actually kind of fun to watch the two back to back and see how little was changed.
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Poe's Law / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The comic parodies this here. A man and a woman are in bed in their underwear, and the man is saying, "It wasn't lousy sex; it was a satire about lousy sex." A weird version of this is exploited in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, "Literally." Since many Biblical literalists haven't actually read the Bible, you can go ask them "Do you really believe in [crazy thing that wasn't in the Bible but sounds a bit like it might have been]?" and they'll answer "Yes."
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Poe's Law / int_3b34143f	comment	An article called "Harry Potter Sparks Rise In Satanism Among Children", in which six-year-old girls claim that "Jesus died because he was weak and stupid", was copied into a furious chain letter and circulated about the web. Commentators noted that many of the article's more obviously parodic passages were excised from the letter, suggesting that the poster may not have believed it him/herself. Regardless, it worked, triggering a panicked reaction among fundamentalists, in spite of (or perhaps because of) it ending with J.K. Rowling praising Satan. The very same article led to a concerned parent sending mail to Reader's Digest, criticizing them about interviewing Rowling. After a bit of back-and-forth, the reader mentioned reading about it on The Onion whereupon Reader's Digest pointed out that it's a humor paper, and Rowling is not really a Satan worshiper.
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Poe's Law / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked.com: The site has two articles about "Satirists Attacked by People Who Totally Missed the Point," here and here. Also, see this article about how the blogger meant to come off as so ridiculous that nobody could take it seriously... and the media thought he was being literal. This article takes the other way, of which some certain parodies became successful because people didn't realize that they were satires. This article is about movie trailers for 2011 summer movies - a romcom, a comedy, and an action movie - that can be interpreted as parodies of their respective genres. They aren't. It shouldn't take long to realize that this article about The Lord of the Rings is a parody. But according to the comments, some people still didn't get it. Cracked.com has also argued that the Reaganite fantasy Red Dawn (1984) is actually a parody of resurgent Cold War paranoia, claiming that the film is actually highly critical of the United States. Yet another article from the site was about a woman who had created a fake online dating profile to see if the rumor that men on that site would overlook personality flaws and mismatched tastes if the woman in the picture was "hot." Even though the profile depicted someone who was very rude and immature, she got a lot of replies. There was also a woman on Craigslist who pretended to be a cow to see how many men wanted to date her anyway. About 20 sent in serious responses without reading the ad.
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Poe's Law / int_44127c7c	comment	The Power Rangers franchise works by taking action sequences from the Super Sentai series, dubbing them, and inserting their own footage with at least two Sentai: Gekisou Sentai Carranger (Power Rangers Turbo) and Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger (Power Rangers: Dino Thunder) were total or partial parodies of the Sentai genre respectively, and made into completely serious Power Rangers series.
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Poe's Law / int_443e41c7	comment	Natty Comics is about a woman who unleashes violent retribution upon sexist men, who then declare that they deserve it. It's not surprising that many people believe it was secretly made by an anti-feminist to make feminists look worse, but the author has expressed left-wing, pro-feminism views on social media, making this extremely unlikely.
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Poe's Law / int_45854dfc	comment	When it was released in 1997 Starship Troopers was very easy to mistake as a genuine attempt at making an ultra-patriotic action movie that turned out rather poorly. A decade later its actual nature as a pure and unrestrained satire became painfully obvious as the entire plot of the movie turned out to be frighteningly prophetic. note When a hopelessly outclassed enemy did attack a major American city with a very low-tech but devastating surprise attack, the reaction turned out almost identical to the movie, including all the delusional mistakes and propaganda. Meanwhile, the director of the film in question (who wasn't American and had an entirely different cultural background) still nods politely at interviewers who "discover" the parody in the movie. The original novel by Robert Heinlein was completely serious about the political messages of the story.
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Poe's Law / int_474c18c1	comment	BioShock Infinite is filled with in-universe propaganda posters. It's pretty clear these are all intended as satire. This didn't stop a Florida Tea Party group from posting one of the posters on their Facebook page.
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Poe's Law / int_49ad83ee	comment	Another famous video, the Greatest Freakout Ever: At least 3/5 of the comments were "Boy, this is what World of Warcraft does to people?!?", ignoring that you can replace "World of Warcraft" with "Xbox Live" or "EverQuest" and it'd still make sense... or that. The internet still seems to be divided between those who think it was fake and those who think it was real, without any conclusive proof one way or the other. Detractors often point to the over-the-top reactions of Steven (the freakout kid) as clearly being acted. Some cite the interview of Steven by Daniel Tosh on his TV show Tosh0 as definitive proof that the video was fake. The episode involves Tosh interrogating Steven, with the help of Michael Winslow (You know, that guy who makes the funny noises), eventually using a polygraph machine, and finally resorting to a threat to shove a remote up his butt if he doesn't tell the truth. This is a comedy show, and it's not known what occurred backstage.
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Poe's Law / int_4a453e0d	comment	In Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, the main villain is a racist, paranoid DHS agent who is a parody of The War on Terror-era jingoism and militarism. At one point he meets Neil Patrick Harris and tells him that he was inspired to join the security apparatus because of Starship Troopers, not understanding that the movie was explicitly a satire of people like him. Of course if he'd read the book, that would be a different story...
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Poe's Law / int_4cfbcc07	comment	Plato's Symposium contains a sequence where the playwright Aristophanes gives a "Just So" Story explaining his idea of what love is, about how everyone was once a four-legged four-armed intersex person, but the gods cut them in half for their egotism and they're now searching for their missing halves. It's not uncommon to find versions of this story on myth-focused websites as an example of an actual Greek creation story, as it doesn't seem that much more absurd (and many even consider it one of the first examples of the One True Love). In context, though, it's meant as a mockery of creation myths, between the absurd imagery and the fact that Aristophanes is drunk off his ass.
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Poe's Law / int_4dd85f39	comment	In documentary Religulous, Bill Maher disguises himself and starts preaching the actual tenets of Scientology in a park. Most people laugh at him and call him crazy, unaware that those were Scientologists' real beliefs.
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Poe's Law / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Taken to something of a logical extreme in Homestuck, where Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, Dave's Stylistic Suck webcomic, is described as "a webcomic ironically maintained through a satirical cipher" with "legions of devoted fans, most of whom are totally convinced" of his sockpuppet persona's sincerity. A bit of meta irony kicks in when you consider that in real life, Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff actually is much better known than Homestuck and MSPA, and genuinely does have legions of devoted fans (though most of them are well aware of its ironic Stylistic Suck value). Part of the reason is that Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff originated before Homestuck and was posted on the Penny Arcade forums by Andrew Hussie.
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Poe's Law / int_54299033	comment	What exactly Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron is a satire of continues to be argued over to this day. Those on the right claim it's a satire of egalitarianism. Those on the left claim it's a satire of the right's views of egalitarianism.
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Poe's Law / int_543933d1	comment	Swedish humor show Grotesco featured a song called Det Ã¤r bÃ¶garnas fel ("It's the gay men's fault") which became a hit and can be watched here. It's a textbook example of this trope. The song is sung by a reverend who claims that gay men are to blame for every single bad thing in the world and sings that "I don't know the line and verse, chapter or part, but somewhere in [the Bible] it says that it's the gay men's fault." He and lots of other singers then go on to give gay men the blame for things that clearly aren't gay men's fault. One woman sings that "My son shot four people to death with the hunting rifle. Somehow, I feel that it's the gay men's fault." A man sings that "I once ate porridge and confused curry for cinnamon, and that wasn't carelessness; no, it was the gay men's fault." It's almost impossible to imagine how it could be more obviously satiric, and still, when it was performed live on the family show AllsÃ¥ng pÃ¥ Skansen, somebody reported the show to the police for being upsetting to homosexuals.
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Poe's Law / int_57a3683f	comment	Not Always Right and other such "true story of human idiocy" collections are just plausible enough that it's impossible to know for certain how many of their submissions are genuine, though at least one is a known Urban Legend.
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Poe's Law / int_5908ee91	comment	When G4 held their 2011 VideoGame Deathmatch and pitted The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim against The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the Zelda Universe fansite posted an article sarcastically imploring their readers to help Skyrim, "our favorite game," help win the vote. So many people in the comments took it at face value that ZU had to post another article explaining that it was meant to be a joke. Incidentally, the comments themselves exhibit this trope as well; site members who got the joke tried to partake of the sarcasm in their own comments and got said comments voted down to as low as -20.
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Poe's Law / int_59da62aa	comment	You can actually exploit Poe's Law in Fallout: New Vegas. During the final battle, you can convince Lanius to end the fight and withdraw by convincing him that he's about to run straight into a trap â€” would a four-star general like Lee Oliver really be so incompetent as to leave a massive gap in his defense that any enemy could use? The real answer, of course, is that he really is that terrible at his job, but by tricking Lanius into thinking Oliver is instead Obfuscating Stupidity, you can end the battle right there and then with no further bloodshed, as Lanius will choose to withdraw rather than risk a total defeat.
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Poe's Law / int_5f21e309	comment	When Hey! Pikmin was first announced through Nintendo Direct, a person decided to make a satirical change.org petition about trying to get the game (a spin-off released during the franchise's ten-year Sequel Gap between the third and fourth core games) canceled, in response to legitimate petitions on the site over more hot topic games at the time. Despite the writer going out of his way to take potshots at how pathetic these kinds of petitions are and the people who make them (even characterizing the supposed creator of the petition as a troubled schoolkid who bears grudges against people in his life who "wronged" him and rejects the localization of the Pikmin series in favor of the Japanese version), and while a major part of the fanbase instantly managed to peg it as a satire, unfortunately, there were still a few out there who thought the petition was legitimate, either raging over how stupid it was or legitimately signing it.
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Poe's Law / int_5f7aea6d	comment	C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is a mockumentary based on an alternate history where the Confederacy wins the Civil War. Said mockumentary details an America, with slavery as part of the modern way of life, bat-shit crazy politics dictated and decided in part by the desire and need for human chattel, and numerous fictional, parody products with extremely racist overtones. Then the mockumentary comes to its conclusion, and you find out that a lot of those ridiculous, over-the-top products that couldn't possibly exist, actually did, and were actually being sold for decades. The whole totalitarian plot to conquer the entire New World from top to bottom, that sounds like the alternate ending for The Wild Wild West, or possibly Code Geass: yeah, that was actually the plan all along, and something the Confederacy would have attempted had they won the Civil War. Suddenly, the mockumentary, while still a bit ham-handed in presentation, becomes a little more uncomfortable to watch...
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Poe's Law / int_5f86155f	comment	Lo Zoo Di 105: After having informations that the catering at the Music Festival of Sanremo offered food with a horrible taste, it spreaded a Running Gag about the Festival host Gianni Morandi being a coprophague. He probably haven't liked it, since now they have to bleep his surname every time they make a joke about it.
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Poe's Law / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: The Alt Text of one comic suggests trying this on a noted pit of stupidity and prejudice: The punch line for another is that it's impossible to tell if someone's an expert on literary criticism or mocking them with gibberish. This comic mocks Simple Plan, by having the listening assume their lyrics are jokes.
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Poe's Law / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic: In their review of Scooby-Doo (2002), his younger self defends the movie by claiming that it's making fun of the show's pointless celebrity cameos. The Critic responds that no, the movie just has pointless celebrity cameos. Sometimes the Critic's opinions are mistaken for those of Doug Walker's; one such misunderstanding led to a short feud between the character of the critic and Mara Wilson, when Wilson had mistaken the Critic's vitriol for Doug Walker's honest opinion.
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Poe's Law / int_68a59532	comment	Maddox of The Best Page in the Universe discussed this trope in an early 2003 article where he declared that political satire was made obsolete with George W. Bush in office, going so far as to claim that it was impossible to critically analyze Bush's speeches because "the man practically satirizes himself".
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Poe's Law / int_6eed44ab	comment	The final 2017 episode of Dead Ringers was themed around the premise that Donald Trump had just set off a nuclear war and the world was doomed. The responses to this news portrayed by the episode were deliberately silly (eg Jeremy Corbyn calling for "urgent negotiations" with the missiles), but after the episode aired, the continuity announcer reassured "the concerned woman who phoned" that Trump hadn't really started nuclear war.
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Poe's Law / int_6f778e46	comment	This was the subject of Renegade Cut's video "Post-Satire Capitalism", as he discusses how extreme politics and socioeconomics have become.
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Poe's Law / int_714c3981	comment	Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" made two VH-1 Top 100 lists (one specifically for So Bad, It's Good songs) and was praised for its "sincerity" even though Biz was not only a rapper but also a comedian, and the song's Stylistic Suck is played for humor.
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Poe's Law / int_7950b30f	comment	The Colbert Report: Colbert plays a parody of a right-wing pundit. Many conservatives were convinced that Colbert was a real neoconservative and that the show was a parody of the way the left views the right. In March 2014, Colbert drew the ire of social justice online advocate, Suey Park, who started the Twitter hashtag #CancelColbert, over a tweet Colbert made that was parodying the issue of Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder and his launch of the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation. (The tweet in question consisted entirely of the punchline and none of the setup or context). Colbert answers back here.
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Poe's Law / int_7c038c18	comment	In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Secret of Success", Doofenshmirtz holds a telethon to fund his evil schemes, even going so far as to perform a short song called "I Want Your Money" to make his intentions even more obvious. Lawrence, watching from a dentist's office, believes it's "a brilliant work of satire" and declares it his new favorite show.
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Poe's Law / int_7f9f892f	comment	Because War Thunder is notorious for numerous leaks of classified or otherwise restricted documents, someone posted a joke about a prospective Raytheon (a large American defense contractor) employee being asked if they played War Thunder. As a result, many people truly believed that playing War Thunder was a genuine impediment to obtaining a security clearance or working as a defense contractor. However, Raytheon has denied asking asking such questions, stating, "We only look at a personâ€™s education, employment and criminal history when hiring. Weâ€™ve never looked into a personâ€™s video game habits and I canâ€™t imagine a case in which weâ€™d have a concern with any game."
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Poe's Law / int_807ff105	comment	Paleontology enthusiasts tend to enjoy mocking the many low-quality dinosaur books out there, with their questionable anatomy and information decades outdated at release. A perennial favorite of such groups is an image from a kids' book of "Aeolosaurus", supposedly an ankylosaur that could glide like a flying squirrel. The image in question is indeed from a real kid's book—that being, Be a Dinosaur Detective, an activity book featuring a section that challenges the reader to pick out real dinosaurs from fake ones. Unsurprisingly, Aeolosaurus is the latter. Underlining it further, right next to it is a dinosaur supposedly named Rhedosaurus.
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Poe's Law / int_87b55b5d	comment	In early 2022, the website Hard Drive (gaming's answer to The Onion, from the same people behind The Hard Times) made a report that all functioning Wiis would self-destruct in 2023. Despite the ludicrousness of the statement, enough people believed it that Snopes and even Nintendo Life were forced to point out that it was a satirical article.
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Poe's Law / int_89446aa7	comment	A significant plot point in Glass Onion. It takes Benoit Blanc longer than it should to solve the case because there are so many stupid and amateurish mistakes made in the crimes committed (murdering somebody at the most suspicious time imaginable, not immediately disposing of damning evidence, committing crimes while a detective is present, stealing ideas for crimes from things people said mere hours ago, etc.) that Blanc discounts the real culprit Miles Bron, on the basis that it doesn't make sense for a man as seemingly intelligent as Bron be so foolish, even entertaining the possibility that someone is framing Bron because of how thoroughly all the evidence points to him. As it turns out, no, Bron did it. He's a clueless moron who's good at sounding smarter than he actually is. He really did genuinely do all those monumentally stupid things while committing his crimes, because he really is just that incompetent. This is, in fact, the point behind the Double-Meaning Title; a Glass Onion, as observed by Blanc, is something that has many layers, yet is ultimately see-through and has an obvious answer.
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Poe's Law / int_8a0f6e8a	comment	The "DK Rap" from Donkey Kong 64 was supposed to be a bit of silly fun — an intentionally cheesy song that composer Grant Kirkhope described as "monkeys rapping about bananas and grapes." Unfortunately, because the game was released during a period when many other series were adopting Theme Tune Raps in an attempt to stay hip with the kids, most players at the time took it at face value.
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Poe's Law / int_8d7658da	comment	While The Onion is perhaps the most famous satire newspaper on this list, other satire newsletters and satire news sites like The Daily Currant and Weekly World News can also fall victim to this. One famous example from the Daily Currant happened when marijuana was legalized in Colorado on January 1, 2014. They published a story titled "Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization", which naturally got well circulated on social media and elsewhere. Apparently, it was so convincing that Annapolis, Maryland Police Chief Michael Pristoop cited it when testifying in front of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee about the legalization, having overlooked the three clues that it was a satire: The article was published in 2014, but it cited The Rocky Mountain News as a source, which went out of business in February 2009. The article also cites an interview with a Dr. Jack Shepard. That's the name of a character on Lost. One of the supposed 37 victims was a guy named Jesse Bruce Pinkman. Jesse Pinkman is the supporting lead on Breaking Bad.
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Poe's Law / int_8d8100ab	comment	The article also cites an interview with a Dr. Jack Shepard. That's the name of a character on Lost.
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Poe's Law / int_8e5c135d	comment	I HATE YOU was a creepypasta detailing a supposed hidden level in Super Mario World with tons of gore, creepy imagery, and a big twist ending. The original upload featured a comment from its author Slimebeast where he mentioned that he wrote the whole thing as a joke, but since it didn't include any obvious tip-offs that it was supposed to be a parody and didn't do anything more ridiculous than a standard gaming creepypasta would, once it was mirrored on other sites without its original context it was taken at face value as a serious attempt at horror writing. The result was that fans of gaming creepypastas ate it up as it was a story by a prolific author with some obvious effort put into it, while more critical readers such as Retsupurae mocked it for being a narm-ridden Cliché Storm. Slimebeast's second attempt at a Mario pasta, Mario Is a Monster did a better job of highlighting its parodic intent by having a clear punchline: The narrator is so dead-set on making Mario out to be the true villain of the series that he ends up glossing over the nastier parts of the "spooky lost game" he's talking about because they don't fit his narrative. Even so, that didn't stop a member of the Lost Media Archive from contacting Nintendo of America to find out whether or not "Mario Nights" was a real game.note The fact the reply letter he got was dated April 1st suggests he may have been in on the joke.
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Poe's Law / int_91011b13	comment	A The Whitest Kids U' Know sketch "Kitty History" parodied many historical conspiracy theories. As seen in the comments of this upload, many people thought the sketch was seriously supporting those theories.
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Poe's Law / int_947ed2f1	comment	The Viridian Saga is a parody of Paranormal Romance novels based on the Cthulhu Mythos. It was written by The Nostalgia Chick and her friends, crowdsourced in a series of online videos, and aided by ghostwriters. It was self-published under the alias "Serra Elinsen," who also serves as a sock-puppet for the authors to create online drama. Part of the point of the experiment is to see how people would react to it, and the authors were quite pleased when the novel caused some kerfluffle among Lovecraft fans and got some serious literary reviews. It also works the other way: fans often play the part of a straightforward Fandom or Hatedom, meaning that it's almost impossible to tell if someone's in on the joke or not.
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Poe's Law / int_9612548a	comment	Grabbed by the Ghoulies was released as a parody of the Haunted House trope. However, a lot of people criticized the game for taking tropes it parodied completely straight. IGN even listed it as one of the worst "Survival Horror" titles ever. Yes, they put a parody of many Survival Horror games as a straight example of a bad one. (Even if it is IGN.)
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Poe's Law / int_96fe1b72	comment	Various Point-and-Laugh Shows (both Talk Shows and Reality TV) occasionally feature (dis)honored guests that are so over-the-top that no one in the audience can be certain whether they're for real, actors, or some combination thereof.
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Poe's Law / int_97ce01ba	comment	Many people think Bee Movie is unintentionally stupid (which may explain its memetic status) when a stupid movie was actually what Jerry Seinfeld was going for.
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Poe's Law / int_980a4fb2	comment	From the 24/3/14 episode of Media Watch: Two of the following headlines about the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are from genuine newspapers, while one is from a spoof - "Pastor Predicted Disappearance of Jet", "Missing Jet in North Korea", "Plane Stolen by Aliens". Which one is the spoof? The correct answer is "Missing Jet in North Korea"
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Poe's Law / int_99885b85	comment	There's been a lot of debate over whether Velma is legitimately promoting politically correct views or satirizing them, due to many audience members perceiving the narrative of the show as exaggerated and lacking nuance yet many audience members also feeling that a lot of moments lack self-awareness.
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Poe's Law / int_9cd57175	comment	James Nguyen claims his film Birdemic is a masterpiece, despite the poor editing and writing, among other flaws. Nobody can tell whether he genuinely thinks it's good or he's just trolling.
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Poe's Law / int_9cf09289	comment	On The Good Fight, Diane is having a really rough time and starts to self-medicate. When she sees TV stories about some weird thing President Trump allegedly did, she has a hard time deciding whether the reports were real or whether she hallucinated them. The implication is that some of the reports were real while others were just her drugged mind making up stuff, but to her, they are all just as plausible.
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Poe's Law / int_9f89a5f0	comment	A Facebook page impersonating Satoshi Tajiri posted the following: "You all think you have great ideas for PokÃ©mon games, but if I actually listened to all of you and we combined all of your ideas into a game, it would be an unplayable monstrous game. You want a game with all the regions, but only the first generation PokÃ©mons, yet all the legendary ones and such silly things. Whenever I receive one of these rants, I go to the development floor and read it out loud to all the Game Freak employees in a mocking voice, and we all laugh at you." Fans were shocked that the creator of something they loved so much was such a dick - those who didn't realize that even if Tajiri spoke English this well, he'd darn well know that the plural of "PokÃ©mon" is just "PokÃ©mon."
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Poe's Law / int_a0ae46e	comment	The plastic soldier scene in Toy Story was intended by the filmmakers to be funny, since it was a clichÃ© war scene played straight with toys instead of humans. When it was shown to test audiences, they took it just as seriously as the real thing.
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Poe's Law / int_a32d2166	comment	In a review for Jaws: The Revenge, the reviewer at Jabootu wrote that "Apparently the studio wanted the ending changed, but wasnâ€™t willing to authorize more than $75 to film the new sequence," in reference to the fact that the film's original ending was reshot to show the shark suddenly exploding for no reason after being impaled. The fact that the shark's new death scene was put together with a toy shark and a crude wooden boat led to many people taking this literally and assuming for years that $75 really was how much the studio had been willing to shell out for the new ending. It wasn't until others clarified that the new ending also included an extra scene with the four lead actors (the cost of hiring whom would have been way in excess of $75) that this myth got dispelled.
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Poe's Law / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order is very fond of Self-Parody, but it often falls into this because it is very hard to come up with a "parody" Servant that is more ridiculous than canon Fate characters that are meant to be taken completely seriously. For instance, Okita Souji is a character with an inexplicable Historical Gender Flip, a silly catchphrase, tons of fanservice, and a Reused Character Design, and is meant to be a joke, while Nero Claudius is a character with an inexplicable Historical Gender Flip, a silly catchphrase, tons of fanservice, and a Reused Character Design, and is meant to be taken seriously - the only difference is where they originated (Souji from a parody side-manga, Nero from a main-line game).
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Poe's Law / int_a6992283	comment	The Black Eyed Peas decided to parody the misogyny and materialism of modern crunk rap by putting out the most ridiculous song they could come up with: "My Humps". Since it's still done in the same style as the genre it's parodying, most people didn't realize it was supposed to be a parody until Alanis Morissette covered it in her Signature Style and the Peas showed their approval of it.
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Poe's Law / int_a7cefbd2	comment	The right-wing Christian satire site Babylon Bee has been taken seriously by figures such as then-president Donald Trump and The Guardian. They have faced accusations of deliberate deception, and the Bee in turn has responded with claims of their content being misrepresented and wrongly censored. The "Mistaken for factual reporting" section on Wikipedia takes up the majority of the Bee's coverage.
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Poe's Law / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: The show's 10th season has introduced yet another character, named Chloe, who was written to be a Parody Sue as she's blatantly, unrealistically perfect in many ways from knowing 12 languages to having a Nobel Prize. Despite this, she was still given the rights to Timmy's fairies half the time. It was later revealed that she was perfect to a fault as she often tried so hard to make everything great that she ended up overcompensating and ruining everything instead which led to people ostracizing her. Unfortunately, her sue qualities got played so straight that many people in the show's fandom mistook her for an outright Canon Sue and decried her inclusion and how she was able to get fairies despite being "perfect". Later episodes would downplay her sue qualities and show more of her flaws, but by then the damage was done, and the 10th season ended up being its last.
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Poe's Law / int_a8a7e194	comment	Feed the Kitty: The scene where Marc Anthony cries upon thinking his cat friend was baked into cookies was meant to be Black Comedy. However, a lot of viewers genuinely found it sad. Even director Chuck Jones was surprised at how tender the scene came off upon watching the finished film.
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Poe's Law / int_ac1d6737	comment	PC Music is... complicated. The label/art collective is infamous for its uniquely post-ironic, avant-garde, and 2000s commercial pop-era-inspired aesthetic with exaggeratedly and borderline parodical music, believed to make a comment on pop music, consumerism, and internet culture, but critics have a hard time deciding whether they're an affectionate celebration or a cynical deconstruction of those concepts. The fact most of its acts tend to be private or straight-up anonymous and thus silent regarding the matter doesn't help to bring answers. Things get even muddier when taking into account actual individual acts: GFOTY is one of the biggest examples of this, with a persona so comically bizarre and trashy that it's extremely difficult to tell how much of it is an act, especially since she tends to maintain "character" in every appearance she makes outside the music. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Hannah Diamond has such a hyper-polished and synthetic feel to her popstar image, with a penchant for borderline-saccharine lyrics to boot. Off the mic, however, she's repeatedly shown to be rather candid about both the synthetic and sincere elements to her persona, lending a ton of credence that it's all meant to be taken at honest face value.
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Poe's Law / int_ac7fd385	comment	While it certainly has moments of sincerity, it is hard to count the number of people that think Hatoful Boyfriend is a dead serious Otome Game and not an Affectionate Parody of them. Bonus points if it's used to show "how weird Japan is".
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Poe's Law / int_ad283518	comment	When Private Eye ran a mock-up Daily Telegraph cover, parodying the MP Expenses Scandal the paper broke by targeting its proprietors, the reclusive Barcley Brothers, they received a letter threatening them with libel action. Their response was that it was in the "joke" section of the magazine, it clearly wasn't a real news story, and they didn't think there was a case to answer. Private Eye gets this from many newcomers who don't know where the cut-off points between the 'investigative journalism' pages and the 'parody' pages are. There are a lot of otherwise intelligent people who think From the Message Boards (a parody of Internet arguments which contains everything you'd encounter in a real Internet debate) is genuine.
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Poe's Law / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful began as a parody, the original authors assuming that nobody would take an attempt to cross a magical girl anime with the Chronicles of Darkness seriously. To their surprise, the concept proved surprisingly popular and, after a Cerebus Retcon or two and some fleshing out, blossomed into one of the setting's most popular fangames.
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Poe's Law / int_af01083	comment	Two movies: Jesus, Bro! and Let There Be Light. Both films are about a Hollywood Atheist who suffers a near-death experience in which he sees Heaven. This causes them to go through Easy Evangelism where they lose the respect of their original community, end up getting advice from other Christians, and reconciles with old flings. Now hereâ€™s the key; one is a satire on Christian propaganda films, while the other is a Christian propaganda film. If you decide to watch both films back-to-back, it'll be hard to tell the difference.
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Poe's Law / int_af83a9f1	comment	Also discussed in his review of South Park: The Stick of Truth where he pointed out that his normal reviewing style isn't very effective for deliberately crass comedy games like this one.
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Poe's Law / int_b0b22636	comment	Wheel of Fortune Host Pat Sajak tweeted "I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends." after outrage Sajak claimed it was parodying climate change deniers and was hyperbole. The original tweet in question was so close to what some of the crazier climate change deniers are saying telling the difference between sincerity and parody is almost impossible.
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Poe's Law / int_b3708359	comment	Solo includes the female droid L3-37, who is obsessed with "droid rights." Fans are divided as to whether this was an endorsement or a parody of social justice advocates, or both. It doesn't help that the series' notoriously inconsistent portrayal of droids had many viewers thinking Strawman Has a Point.
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Poe's Law / int_b5134390	comment	Nobody really knows if My Immortal was written seriously or if it's just the work of a troll of legendary prowess. There's evidence both ways â€” on the one hand, a number of ideas seem weirdly out of place (Snape being evil, callouts to Tom Bombadil or Bela Lugosi's Dead) and the story's deterioration in spelling and grammar doesn't quite match up with the supposed loss of its editor. On the other hand, people who were around at the time of the story's publication have pointed out that its level of quality was actually pretty typical. Its publication time doesn't help, as it happened at just the point when all its common tropes were being discredited.
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Poe's Law / int_b9196faf	comment	Forklift Driver Klaus, a German Bloody Hilarious parody of workplace safety films, is frequently linked by Anglophones with "look at those crazy Germans" comments suggesting that it's been mistaken for a serious workplace safety film.
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Poe's Law / int_b9b06d7e	comment	Borat was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and the European Center for Antiziganism Research for its depiction of Borat's racism and Antisemitism. The film is actually parodying such beliefs and attempting to expose acceptance of them in Borat's unwitting interview guests. In fact, Sacha Baron Cohen is himself a practicing Jew and was later given an award by the ADL, where he made a very moving speech about the continuing threat of antisemitism.
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Poe's Law / int_bb1da73f	comment	In his review of Bamboozled, Roger Ebert noted that most movie-going audiences wouldn't catch onto the film's satire about how black people are portrayed in modern media. People would simply get pissed off at the mere use of Blackface. Indeed, the film ended up a box-office bomb as a result.
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Poe's Law / int_bba90723	comment	Whenever a country sends an act to the Eurovision Song Contest that's obviously intended as a parody of the kind of novelty songs that show up at the contest, they inevitably just transform into the exact kind of song they're trying to mock. Three notable examples are the 2008 trio of Ireland's Dustin the Turkey with "Irlande Douze Points"note A song by Dustin, a puppet turkey on Irish children's television, lamenting Ireland's lack of recent success at the contest and begging for points to a techno beat, Estonia's Kreisisradio with "Leto svet"note A bizarre song by three Estonian comedians sung in pidgin Serbian, Finnish, and German as a parody of countries singing in random languages to score points. One bit, involving two of them humping a piano, was supposedly a metaphor for what these novelty acts do to music, and Spain's Rodolfo Chikilacuatre with "Baile el Chiki-Chiki."note A parody of dance crazes performed by a Spanish comedian purposefully intending to create, in his own words, "the most ridiculous song it is possible to play." The performance played up Stylistic Suck to the nth degree, particularly by having one of the female backing dancers being out-of-step and falling over trying to keep up with the rest While all were deliberate Stylistic Suck when they were put in the same context as actual wacky Eurovision acts with more earnest intents (such as France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Latvia the same year), they just fell into the same traps and are often treated the same way, making appearances on "Worst Eurovision Songs" lists and usually being ranked as the worst of their year by fans, regardless of whether or not they know they're satirical. 2006 saw two similar acts, Iceland's Silvia Night with "Congratulations"note Silvia being a creation of an Icelandic comedian and musician mocking vain celebrities, with a purposefully over-the-top stage show and braggadocios lyrics proclaiming she was obviously going to win and Lithuania's LT United with "We Are the Winners" note A group, mostly made up of local news and sportscasters as opposed to musicians, proudly declaring that they were the winners of Eurovision and that people should vote for them, styled after a football chant. Both acts were greeted with loud jeers following their performances in the semi-final round, as fans took their attitudes at face value. It backfired for Iceland since the song wasn't funny enough to escape Silvia's annoyingness (topped off with her actress staying in character the whole time, to the point of yelling at the Greek stage crew) and they didn't qualify. However, the viewers at home caught on to Lithuania's gag quicker than the fans in the arena: not only did Lithuania secure their first-ever qualification (to the loud consternation of the crowd), but they managed their best finish to date, taking sixth place in the grand final, with Ireland even awarding the song twelve points. Even Finland's Lordi, the eventual winners, sang the song's chorus when they entered the winner's press conference afterwards.
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Poe's Law / int_bbbb8c43	comment	In their review of Scooby-Doo (2002), his younger self defends the movie by claiming that it's making fun of the show's pointless celebrity cameos. The Critic responds that no, the movie just has pointless celebrity cameos.
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Poe's Law / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: The episode "Stuck in the Wringer" ends with the Spoof Aesop that "crying does solve your problems after all!" While the moral was obviously a sarcastic one (compounded by the fact that SpongeBob looks straight into the camera to deliver it), many people missed the joke and were livid. Even among those who knew it was a joke, the line is divisive, with one reason being that children would miss the joke and take the line at face value.
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Poe's Law / int_bee7dcfe	comment	Much of Jojo Rabbit's advance publicity includes the Tag Line "An Anti-Hate Satire" because times are such that it's become unclear if we're supposed to laugh at Those Wacky Nazis. This did not stop people from not recognizing Taika Waititi and thinking it was an actual pro-Nazi film because right-wing groups so frequently parody anti-hate language these days. There were numerous tweets and comments to that effect when the film's trailer was released on YouTube. Once people realized that Hitler was going to be played by a Polynesian though, it became obvious this was a joke.
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Poe's Law / int_c1bbb900	comment	The aptly-named "Mr. Poe and Yogul" segment from Dorbees: Making Decisions is probably supposed to be Stylistic Suck. However, the movie as a whole isn't very good, so its intentional jokes have been mistaken by critics for just plain bad writing.
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Poe's Law / int_c2463c55	comment	The "Laughing scene" in Final Fantasy X was intentionally made to sound fake and over-the-top, which is very obvious in context. Despite this, it is frequently posted in isolation and held up as an example of poor English voice acting.
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Poe's Law / int_c2cda646	comment	Josie and the Pussycats (2001): The Product Placement was parodied by way of cranking it up even though the movie did not make any money off the products and the entire plot of the movie was parodying how media is used to sell products. However, about half the audience and critics got it as self-referential satire, while the other half just thought it had way too many product placements.
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Poe's Law / int_c2d0e6d6	comment	Several videos, such as the famous "Angry German Kid" video were originally made to satirize how German politicians saw gamers. Unfortunately, if you ask around today, most people won't actually know it's faked because of how easy it is to put on a show for the camera. It even got featured in German media about gaming.
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Poe's Law / int_c4282b71	comment	When My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic released a teaser image for a then-upcoming episode ("Testing Testing 1, 2, 3") featuring Pinkie Pie as a rapper, more than a few people assumed that the show was charging headlong into Totally Radical territory. Fortunately, when the episode actually aired, it quickly became clear that the rap was intentionally ridiculous, as it was a parody of Totally Radical edutainment from the '90s. In particular, it's a rather direct spoof of the rap segment from the infamous Don't Copy That Floppy PSA.
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Poe's Law / int_c47076d9	comment	Under Grads: When Nitz decides to act like a sleaze to win over Kimmy (currently running a theater to promote awareness of date rape), Kimmy thinks he's auditioning to play the date rapist in the next show.
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Poe's Law / int_c596486b	comment	People taking Anal Cunt's songs literally. Or for that matter, anything fronted by Billy Milano (S.O.D. and M.O.D. most notably). Flame wars have been fought over whether songs like "Speak English or Die" are satire or serious.
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Poe's Law / int_c68ba5f1	comment	Flatland is part geometric fantasy and part satire of Victorian classism and sexism. Unfortunately, it can be hard for modern readers to tell that the author was being satirical. And apparently for some readers at the time, since in the second edition Abbot added an author's note that spelt out the opinions of A. Square were not his own.
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Poe's Law / int_ca07e3af	comment	PolitiChicks, a right-wing "answer" to The View, has led to endless discussion in the comment section (as well as on a number of other sites) about whether it's serious or a parody.
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Poe's Law / int_cb3f37de	comment	Included with the DVD of DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story is an "alternate ending" where the movie abruptly ends (as in, straight to the credits) when Globo Gym beats the Average Joe's (just before the judges declare a sudden death match between Peter and White), and in the director's commentary he claims that this is how the movie was supposed to end if it wasn't for Executive Meddling, and that he's still bitter about it. Some people (including on this very site) actually took this seriously.
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Poe's Law / int_ccae327f	comment	Part of Spoony's review of Highlander: The Source featured him reacting with horror at a bizarrely out-of-place montage sequence that was accompanied by a terrible cover version of Queen's "Princes of the Universe," leading to him angrily accusing the film's producers of ruining not just Highlander, but Queen as well. In his commentary for the episode, Spoony revealed that his fellow Channel Awesome producers subsequently assumed that the actual scene used the Queen original and that Spoony had found some crappy cover version and dubbed it over to make the scene look even worse, forcing him to clarify that the scene did use the cover.
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Poe's Law / int_cd36879	comment	2006 saw two similar acts, Iceland's Silvia Night with "Congratulations"note Silvia being a creation of an Icelandic comedian and musician mocking vain celebrities, with a purposefully over-the-top stage show and braggadocios lyrics proclaiming she was obviously going to win and Lithuania's LT United with "We Are the Winners" note A group, mostly made up of local news and sportscasters as opposed to musicians, proudly declaring that they were the winners of Eurovision and that people should vote for them, styled after a football chant. Both acts were greeted with loud jeers following their performances in the semi-final round, as fans took their attitudes at face value. It backfired for Iceland since the song wasn't funny enough to escape Silvia's annoyingness (topped off with her actress staying in character the whole time, to the point of yelling at the Greek stage crew) and they didn't qualify. However, the viewers at home caught on to Lithuania's gag quicker than the fans in the arena: not only did Lithuania secure their first-ever qualification (to the loud consternation of the crowd), but they managed their best finish to date, taking sixth place in the grand final, with Ireland even awarding the song twelve points. Even Finland's Lordi, the eventual winners, sang the song's chorus when they entered the winner's press conference afterwards.
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Poe's Law / int_d14c8c60	comment	In light of the controversy surrounding the Ghostbusters (2016) reboot, this Reddit post from r/ghostbusters, where one user asks how to best "filter out" positive reviews of the movie, caught a lot of attention from the media (including outlets such as BBC.) It was widely circulated as proof of how misogynistic haters are seeking to censor all positive reviews of the movie. However, it was a sarcastic troll post, and the user who posted it admitted as much (and mentioned he was dismayed by how many people took it seriously.)
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Poe's Law / int_d4f9ccf	comment	A group parodying the Tea Party released videos advocating a boycott of Disney's Aladdin on the grounds that it was Islamic propaganda. Many were confused as to whether the videos were serious or not, but in this case, the fact that it was believable as a Tea Party position was part of the point of the parody.
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Poe's Law / int_d539226e	comment	This is what got the Bill of Life, which allows parents to have their children's body parts be divided and used as transplants once they reach age thirteen, passed in Unwind; it was proposed in order to make both sides in the Heartland War realize how ridiculous they were being. What wasn't expected was for both pro-choice and pro-life people to embrace it as the only way to compromise.
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Poe's Law / int_d5b84b32	comment	The now defunct blog AntiSpore (a parody blog from supposedly a Christian Creationist taking issue with the themes Spore had on Evolution) fooled many gamers and websites like Kotaku and Joystiq, at least until some very obvious notes on the blog's "Real About Page" were added, like the following: Even after this, people kept up arguing against him for over a thousand comments; there are over 2500 total, and the balance slowly shifts to people actually getting the joke, but toward the end there are still one or two condemning him as a bigot. Most of them apparently didn't even read the entry, and some of them who did read it, and pointed out he'd gotten the Bible verses wrong.
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Poe's Law / int_d894c92	comment	"The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" by Ylvis was made by a pair of talk show hosts and was supposed to be a parody of runaway formulaic pop hits that became... a runaway formulaic pop hit.
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Poe's Law / int_d8ba9a46	comment	Dr. Strangelove is a comedic adaptation of Red Alert, a book that played the same premise straight. Other than the ending and the inclusion of Dr. Strangelove himself, the story is almost slavishly accurate to the book. Notable because Peter George, the author of Red Alert, actually helped write Dr. Strangelove, making it seem like even he realized how easily his book could slide into Narm territory.
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Poe's Law / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: This shows up in "Trapped in the Closet" when an official narrates Xenu's origin story. The phrase, "This is what Scientologists actually believe" was put in because it would've been indistinguishable from the show's weird humor to those who didn't already know the story. Even then, some people still didn't believe it, because even that sounds like something South Park would do. The episode "Butt Out" is suggested by Stone and Parker to be Self-Parody of the show's own satirical structure; the issue of anti-smoking is portrayed in a spectacularly black-and-white fashion (the cigarette factory is a Wonka-esque wonderland, while Rob Reiner is depicted as a Straw Hypocrite and borderline Humanoid Abomination) and the episode ends with a big dramatic speech for An Aesop. But a lot of reviews didn't even notice those elements, because we're talking about a show that once depicted Barbara Streisand as Mechagodzilla; ridiculous exaggeration to make a comedic point and incredibly simplistic and blatant messaging is South Park's stock-in-trade. Many people assume that the pro-pedophile North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a piece of satire invented by the show. Sadly, it's a real organization.
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Poe's Law / int_da14b9f	comment	Throughout the Dr. Seuss book Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, the phrase "a host, above all, must be nice to his guests" is repeated. It is used ironically, as Thidwick's guests (animals who live in his antlers) are quite ungrateful and almost cause him to starve to death. At the end, Thidwick's problems are solved when he kicks out his guests. There's a small group of people who took the repeated phrase seriously and left thinking the book contained a Broken Aesop.
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Poe's Law / int_dd9b1cd2	comment	Every year, the April issue of Game Informer prints several pages of "Game Infarcer", with PARODY clearly stated at the bottom of these pages, that include ludicrous articles and reviews. Without exception, the next month's issue's letters columns are always full of letters from either people who didn't get the joke, or who did and are playing along. It's impossible to tell the difference between the two.
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Poe's Law / int_dde91ea5	comment	A Knight's Tale: Upon release, some movie critics somehow mistook it for a genuine Middle Ages Period Piece and castigated the movie for its Anachronism Stew. The movie is actually an Affectionate Parody and deliberate Cliché Storm of sports stories only in the Middle Ages with knights, so any historical errors were entirely intentional. The filmmakers joke about this on the DVD commentary, remarking that you'd think they'd have gotten the hint when the movie opens with medieval peasants singing "We Will Rock You" by Queen.
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Poe's Law / int_de723bfd	comment	French Baguette Intelligence: According to Fuck Cares himself, Apology Video Gets Me Cancelled is a parody of YouTube parody videos and isn't supposed to be taken seriously. This hasn't stopped many commenters from asking why he is apologising.
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Poe's Law / int_e6267766	comment	The Star Wars Legends comic "Skippy the Jedi Droid" was written by Peter David as a parody of how other stories tended to infuse random and irrelevant characters with cosmic-level importance, by taking the idea to its natural conclusion and declaring that the busted R2 unit in A New Hope who explodes after being bought was actually a Force-sensitive droid (something near-impossible by the rules of the series), with his malfunction being a deliberate act of self-sacrifice to ensure the safety of the galaxy. Since then, the story's become a perennial fixture of articles and arguments discussing why Legends was full of absurd nonsense, seemingly unaware of the fact that the story was both satirical and non-canon. It doesn't particularly help that, as silly as Skippy is, it was only a notch or two more absurd than some of the actual cases of A Day in the Limelight it was parodying (for example, Tales of the Bounty Hunters revealing that IG-88 took control of the second Death Star without anyone noticing), as well as the franchiseâ€™s rampant use of Because Destiny Says So to justify any and all Contrived Coincidences, such as that droid exploding just so that Luke can meet Artoo and Threepio.
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Poe's Law / int_ea4f62db	comment	In the Family Guy episode "Brian Writes a Bestseller", Brian manages to pull this off with a hastily-written self-help book called "Wish It, Want It, Do It", which he wrote as a statement on self-help books in general. However, it winds up becoming a bestseller, and he ultimately buys into his own hype. It ultimately takes Bill Maher to get Brian to admit the truth and be shooed off the set.
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Poe's Law / int_eafb030	comment	Third Rate Gamer, a Stylistic Suck parody of Caustic Critics (The Irate Gamer in particular) is often mistaken for a legitimate, awful reviewer. His Nintendo DS "review" begins with a disclaimer that says that the show is a parody, but if you read the comments to some of his other videos, you can still find people confusing him with an actual reviewer.
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Poe's Law / int_ec80dae4	comment	Zero Punctuation naming Fantasy World Dizzy to be the greatest game ever made was intended to be a joke about the Nostalgia Filter and people upholding incredibly dated and simplistic games from their childhoods as all-time greats, regardless of whether they hold up or were ever good at all. Given Yahtzee's somewhat weird tastes and just how common the very thing he was parodying was, a lot of people took it seriously, to the point of giving Dizzy something of a Colbert Bump. Chances are, if you find a mention of Fantasy World Dizzy, it'll mention that Zero Punctuation named it the greatest game ever made.
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Poe's Law / int_ecd6c351	comment	MarioTehPlumber is an infamous Sonic the Hedgehog "fan" who "reviews" video games in the eponymous franchise on YouTube. The "reviews" in question consist mostly of screaming into the microphone, Cluster/Atomic F-Bombs every other word, research failures galore, and "Character design > Gameplay" priorities complete with sexual interpretations of characters and objects intended to be nothing of the sort — so naturally he was laughed out of the fanbase as a troll in a matter of moments, right? Unfortunately, the Sonic the Hedgehog fanbase is infamous for being extremely divided, made worse by a significant Vocal Minority of overzealous fans. The result is that it took several years before it became widely agreed that MarioTehPlumber's immature behaviour is a fake personality and not sincere.
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Poe's Law / int_ef337a8b	comment	DarkMatter2525: "If Hitler Never Existed" was about how people are so fond of demonizing anyone they disagree with that a Utopia where Hitler never existed would be seen as horrific because you wouldn't be able to call someone a Nazi in the middle of an argument. However, the video had so many comments insisting that erasing Hitler from existence wouldn't result in a utopia that DarkMatter2525 had to clarify that the video was meant to be a commentary on the present, not on the past.
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Poe's Law / int_f0c816fb	comment	One of the supposed 37 victims was a guy named Jesse Bruce Pinkman. Jesse Pinkman is the supporting lead on Breaking Bad.
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Poe's Law / int_f16adb7	comment	There's a minor political party in Russia called "Communists of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast" (CPLO), that is best known for their public appeals, written in an over-the-top style of mock Soviet propaganda. They sent a hate mail to Steven Spielberg over Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and accused Avatar of ripping off from Strugatsky Brothers. Recently, they claimed that European probe Philae is a 'space pirate' and should pay for landing on a 'Soviet' Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. Their philippics have been picked up by the media and taken too seriously so that the real Communist Party had to remind them they have nothing to do with that. There's still a debate is CPLO parodying Communists Just for Fun, as an advertisement strategy, or if they're really nuts (which is unlikely).
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Poe's Law / int_f59e218	comment	Rock: It's Your Decision is supposed to be a Christian propaganda film, but the way it plays out, it feels like the writer is as mentally unhinged as the protagonist or the writer trolled the Christians who hired him to write their film and they never caught on. The main character starts out as a decent person, but after being convinced to give up rock music, becomes a raving judgmental maniac.
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Poe's Law / int_f64dd3b8	comment	McJuggerNuggets falls into this a lot — one of the major questions fans and haters have is "Is this real or not?". The depiction of a dysfunctional family, an abuser losing people to dominate and becoming less rational as time goes on, multiple abusive relationships, nobody thinking to help (especially not the police), as well as the fact that the main character Jesse regularly moves back to a house where he's clearly abused brings up a lot of people to suspect both. After uploading a video of Jesse shooting his father dead, and a follow-up video showing him moving out of the country in a desperate attempt to escape his crime, he cries on camera admitting that he made a mistake that can never be forgiven. Immediately after he finishes, he gets up, walks out of the room, and points the camera at the door, showing that his dad is alive and well, his mom is nearby, and he is in his parents' bedroom and not a hotel room like the video leads you to believe. Following this, Jesse came forth admitting that the entire Psycho series was indeed fake, and proceeded to upload bloopers and discussions about the show, even showing him giving his parents multi-thousand dollar checks for their help in the series. Jesse would also admit that, due to the lines of the show blurring from reality, he had actually been swatted before, and had the police called on his home multiple times by concerned or enraged fans. At one point, the police had even told him that he had to stop uploading the videos, which he responded that the show was nearing completion shortly. He continues uploading as he has before with new videos and series.
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Poe's Law / int_f6bc8d0c	comment	Penn & Teller: Bullshit! does this often to ridicule the topic they are covering in a particular episode; for example, polling hippies on banning water (identified as the scary sounding Dihydrogen Monoxide) or asking for donations to fight global warming with no proof the funds will be used legitimately. They were often shocked at how horribly right their "bullshit experiments" went.
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Poe's Law / int_f910e591	comment	In an episode of the Cox n' Crendor podcast, Jesse Cox discusses an epiphany he had watching next episode trailers for Hell's Kitchen. He explains that he realized that they were so blatantly false compared to the episodes themselves that he's not entirely certain whether they're serious and lying or meant to spoof trailers of that nature.
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Poe's Law / int_f96d33a0	comment	TheOdd1sOut: In one video, James jokingly claims to be a furry as part of a joke, saying that people tend to find furry animals cuter than hairless ones. However, a lot of commenters thought he was serious, so in another video, he confirmed it was a joke.
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Poe's Law / int_faa385ac	comment	The infamous The Light of Courage trilogy has an interesting case of something being both incorrectly mistaken for a parody and something fully serious at the same time. Aside from the few who know the story behind the trilogy, most people can't seem to figure out whether it's real or not. The animation and voice acting in the videos is intentionally bad, but the dialogue, grammatical errors, and storyline all come from a script for a Legend of Zelda movie that its creator took completely seriously and was ridiculed for its poor quality. A group mainly consisting of three members of the IGN Boards posed as the director of the franchise's cartoon adaptation to prank the script's creator and then made the parody trilogy by adding purposefully badly-done animation and voice acting. Also the case for the infamous Half-Life: Full Life Consequences series, though this one is more universally recognized as a Troll Fic.
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Poe's Law / int_fae48d18	comment	The Prayer Warriors is a troll, but since it focused on common targets of Everyone Is Satan in Hell, including Harry Potter, people weren't sure if it was a troll or some actual Christian who can't spell.
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Poe's Law / int_fbc32f7e	comment	Some people think that My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic must be written by a troll. It's not. The author really, really isn't kidding.
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Poe's Law / int_fd8221d2	comment	The Other Wiki mentions Black propaganda as propaganda that presents a deliberate negative exaggeration of opposing ideological viewpoints. In order to work people have to mistake the real ideology for the negative exaggeration.
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Poe's Law / int_fe724d7f	comment	Outside of Germany, everyone agrees that Rammstein is a far left wing act. Newspapers inside Germany however, will still criticize them for Nazism utilizing a hefty dose of Insane Troll Logic and invoking The Horseshoe Effect. One of the oft-cited reasons for this is the lead singer's use of an affected Prussian accent—forgetting, apparently, that the person who most frequently used this accent wasn't a Nazi at all, but Communist singer Ernst Busch, who played The Narrator in the original production of The Three Penny Opera. Now, it is true that Rammstein has a tradition of writing songs from the perspective of mentally unhinged people, and that they heavily utilize Crosses the Line Twice. However, they have a Humor Mode: if there is English anywhere in the song, it's a parody. The most frequently criticized songs are the ones that have English refrains, and their most heavily criticized song is entirely in English.
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