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Stealth Parody
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Parodies that pretend to be serious works, no matter how absurd or mocking their contents are, often with the purpose of getting Misaimed Fandom to generate hilarious feedback. The Internet Age has made it particularly easy to do this. You can never be sure the person on the other computer isn't that obtuse. In the more general sense, standard internet discourse in highly exclusive internet forums can be very difficult to decipher by outsiders; stealth parody submitted to such communities is commonly known as "trolling". It can be lots of fun to find a particularly awful piece of Fan Fiction and review it as if it is one of these. Sometimes it actually is, and sometimes an author may claim that it is later. Being "stealthy", it can be hard to tell. Sometimes overlaps with "Poe's Law", but Poe's Law is applied specifically when a parody of anything extreme is mistakenly taken at face value, or the opposite: an over-the-top work that is intended to be serious is confused with a parody. It also sometimes overlaps with Spoofed with Their Own Words. Compare Indecisive Parody, which is when someone involved in an otherwise-serious project mocks it. See also Parody Retcon, when a creator tries to claim that a badly-received work was one of these. Be careful when adding entries to this list. A badly done Stealth Parody is still bad, unless it's a stealth parody of stealth parodies. Eat your heart out, Poe. |
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German comic Nick Knatterton started as this. The fans took it straight and liked it. The author not so much. | |
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DOOM: Repurcussions of Evil here (check the reviews for added lulz.) | |
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British series Avenger Penguins was a tongue-in-cheek spoof of the Totally Radical anthropomorphic bands of animals such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Biker Mice from Mars. However, the market in the early Nineties was already overloaded with them, so the biker penguins were soon forgotten and lumped in with the similar but "serious" cartoons of the time. | |
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Tsui Hark's movie Knock Off is said to have been deliberately designed to be So Bad, It's Good, in order to ridicule Jean-Claude Van Damme as a sneaky retaliation for his incessant disruptions during the shooting of Double Team. If this is true, no one apparently noticed while it was being made. | |
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There is a very good chance that Doom (here) falls under this category. | |
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Hobgoblins writer and director Rick Sloane has claimed that the film was a parody of all the bad, low-budget copycat films that followed in the wake of Gremlins. | |
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The music of Devin Millar looks well-made, but many don't realize he creates novelty music. | |
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Some YouTube Poop movies fall under this, claiming to be a improved version of the godawful Philips CD-i cutscenes. Members of the You Chew Poop forums created a joke account SupremeBros, which purposely made poops with old, played-out memes, to parody bad poopers and see how many subscribers the channel gets. | |
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Metal Wolf Chaos... Possibly. It's kinda hard to tell. Either way, it's awesome. | |
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The Ben Chatham Adventures may be this. Certainly, the stories by Lemon Bloody Cola were, and so are the ones by his new regeneration, Mutie. The entire online persona of this series' author, Sparacus, could also fall here; he's either an incredibly nuanced (if very long running) parody of a certain type of fan or a deadly serious example of that certain type of fan. | |
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Ozy and Millie: Millie tried to do one of these in order to get out of writing a serious report. Or maybe not. Who knows? |
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Brass Eye, a spot-on satire of prime-time "special investigation" programmes that fooled quite a lot of people — including the celebrities asked to take part — into believing that they were serious despite the complete absurdity of the content. Most notably, their final programme — a special on paedophilia — generated immense outrage from several newspapers at the "paedophile comedy" despite the actual target of the show being media outlets that treated paedophilia with far too much manufactured outrage. One such newspaper was unfortunate enough to print a story deriding the show right next to an article◊ complimenting the size of (the fifteen-year-old) Charlotte Church's breasts. | |
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Green Jellÿ. They even SAY they're proud to be the world's worst band. Too bad many people don't get the joke. | |
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During the midst of the Harry Potter craze, humor site Cap'n Wacky got lots of e-mails about this obvious parody review of Harry Potter Bathes in the Blood of Virgins. | |
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Toriko is a shounen series where everything is so exaggerated and over-the-top that it's impossible to take it seriously after a while. With its 80s-inspired graphic style, overly macho main characters with Ho Yay-filled interactions and all the ludicrously powerful attacks and counter-attacks, it's either a throwback to simpler times or a stealth parody of shonen series like Hunter X Hunter, Fist of the North Star and Naruto, of the tendency to fill those series with homoerotic subtext in order to attract a peripheric fanbase, and probably also of the tendency of Japanese media to be Mundane Made Awesome (Toriko is set in a world which is all about food and making the perfect menu). | |
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Half-Life: Full Life Consequences has been transformed into several videos. | |
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Basic Instinct. In his book The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas states essentially that he conceived and wrote this film in 13 days as a cynical exercise in creating the Lowest Common Denominator screenplay possible, so he could get back his record of being the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood. And he succeeded. | |
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A Cracked article "6 classic songs that were supposed to be jokes" discusses several examples from music. | |
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Some observant viewers think the Battleship movie might be one of these. Given that the aliens, despite being depicted as Obviously Evil, never attack noncombatants, it may actually be the story of a First Contact Gone Horribly Wrong instead of an Alien Invasion being heroically repelled. | |
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On a similar note, Dethklok. Although the show Metalocalypse is obviously a parody, the music is surprisingly good and likely to be mistaken for sincere metal by someone who hears it out of context. | |
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Hayate the Combat Butler does this to Harem Genre tropes and virtually any series it happens to Shout-Out to. | |
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April 1st, 2006, Blizzard had a "fired" employee "leak" patch notes to the World of Warcraft 1.11 patch (despite patch 1.10 having come out last week, meaning they wouldn't have had time to test anything to determine what needed to be fixed.) The patch notes consisted of over 100 unbelievable patches, including major buffs to the Shaman (wolf form now takes 30% less damage and can cast all spells) and major Nerfing to the Rogue ("fixed a bug which let the Rogue equip two weapons at once"). If contacted, Blizzard employees responded in a realistic manner, insisting that this information was not supposed to be public and refusing to comment on how much of it was true. How successful this was is hard to tell, as it's hard to tell on forums if they are being serious or not. One of the notes was 'Mages: Fixed a bug which occasionally permitted Arcane Missiles to work.' Everyone with an IQ above room temperature knew they were joking. especially fans of Penny Arcade, who had seen the same fake bug fix in a comic a year earlier. Pretty much the same stunt was repeated in 2014, with patch notes such as 'Shadow Priests will be buffed to be almost as good as Warlocks in every way. Almost.' and 'The paladin ability Eternal Flame will now correctly set opponents on fire, forever'. |
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Jerry Jackson is a thirteen year old boy who thinks his flash cartoons are awesome. Devvo is a chav who gives surprisingly candid (if often incoherent) interviews about everyday life in a series of short web-hosted documentaries. Or... maybe not. Both of them were just made up by David Firth to see who'd take them seriously. | |
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For a rare example of a band's name being in this category, the hardcore band Disgust named themselves that as a mockery of the band Discharge!, who they felt were releasing substandard music around this time period. Many were unaware of this fact for years and assumed the band was trying to make a cheap cash-in on Discharge's name. | |
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Sugoi Quest For Kokoro is a parody of bad Homestuck self-insert Original Characters, but it's made to look like it's some little kid's video at first. It gradually becomes more noticeable that it's a parody. | |
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The short film Doom House (written and directed by and starring Lowtax and Fragmaster) very thinly masquerades as a horror film with rock-bottom production values on every conceivable level. At last count, its IMDb page mostly consisted of reviewers playing along and hailing it (in detail) as a triumph of modern horror cinema, and one confused reviewer who took it at "face" value. | |
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One of the notes was 'Mages: Fixed a bug which occasionally permitted Arcane Missiles to work.' Everyone with an IQ above room temperature knew they were joking. especially fans of Penny Arcade, who had seen the same fake bug fix in a comic a year earlier. | |
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Comrade Detective seems like a communist Miami Vice clone shown in 1980s Romania, with the PBS-like intro segments once every few episodes further confusing the non-Romanian viewer into believing so. The slick cinematography is the only giveaway that it's a Prime Video original filmed in The New '10s. | |
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The in-game media through the Grand Theft Auto series is this to American culture. | |
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Quite a few people saw This is Spın̈al Tap and believed that it was real, having never experienced a mockumentary before. A number of bands, however, recognized that it was a parody and thought that it was them that it was parodying. Robert Plant, Dee Snider, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, Steven Tyler, and Mike Mills all recognized aspects of the film that they had themselves experienced. One band (possibly Mötley Crüe) even tried to sue them. Other bands (most notably Slade) actually wanted to take credit as the band Spinal Tap was mocking. | |
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Upon first glance, The Punisher 2099 appears to be a generic '90s Anti-Hero with a cyberpunk theme. Upon second glance you find scenes like this.◊ Considering it was mostly written by the creator of Judge Dredd, this shouldn't be too surprising. "How old are you?" "THIRTY SIX... CALIBER!" "I don't need a jetpack... All I need is HATE!"◊ |
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While Soul Eater can be taken at face value, it is quite likely that it is simply a long joke about Shōnen stereotypes. Black*Star and Tsubaki are widely considered to be expies of Naruto and Hinata, many of Maka's lines can be taken directly from Ed, and Soul has an interesting resemblance in backstory to Gokudera. The idea that the Grim Reaper is scary is thrown out the window, and a blatantly obvious love interest is thrown in and shoved in the face of the audience, but nothing happens. The author also said in an interview that he was really only considering putting in one or two canon pairings, and soon after put two minor characters in a relationship. The fandom was not happy. He seems to enjoy messing with his audience, although the show is still considered serious by many. | |
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Nintendo Super Squad's first few strips. | |
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So Random!, an Affectionate Parody of teen sketch shows such as All That began as the Show Within a Show in Sonny with a Chance. However, after Demi Lovato left the show following the second season after going to rehab due to personal issues, the show was rebooted as a defictionalized version of So Random! without Lovato, retaining the show's Stylistic Suck and outrageously over-the-top comic premises. Fans and critics unaware of the show's concept dismissed the show out of hand, and the reboot only survived one season. | |
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The creator of legolas by laura allegedly at one point claimed the fic was a Stealth Parody, but another time tried to excuse the horrificness by claiming she had learning difficulties. Another theory is that she was simply a lot younger than she claimed to be — she said she was fifteen, but the relentless run-on "and then" sentence structure suggest nine- or ten-year-old. It's unknown what its true status is. | |
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Songun Blog initially appears to be the work of a sincere, albeit incredibly delusional/brainwashed, North Korean propagandist. A closer inspection reveals absurdities that not even the most hysterical, thoroughly-indoctrinated fanatic of Kim Jong-il could have produced. (Otherwise, please accept this Face Palm on behalf of all humanity.) | |
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Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, which the author admitted on the "fandomsecrets" site was just an exercise in bashing out nonsense. To their chagrin, it was the author's most popular work. | |
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The Cinema Snob, who is a parody of Caustic Critics who hate anything that isn't True Art. Of course, most of the movies he reviews are sleazy, poorly edited, tasteless gorefests, have plots with the integrity of swiss cheese, or some combination of the above, so many new viewers tend to genuinely believe that he's being serious with his criticisms. A few episodes make the parody clear, such as his reviews of Caligula and Pieces (where Brad Jones appears As Himself to explain the whole thing up front), his review of Maniac (where he combines actual criticisms by noted critics with blatant Hypocritical Humor), and the increase in jokes about how the Snob sometimes hates movies only because he thinks he needs to hate anything that other critics hate.Watching the Snob praise Salo (an incredibly filthy Italian film which Brad despises but critics enjoy) is one of the most incredible parody moments ever put to film. The Snob spends the entire review sitting on the floor in his bathroom; most of his "serious" criticism of the film is punctuated by regular breaks to throw up violently into the toilet next to him. | |
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Possibly A Brother's Price, which is much more entertaining read as a satire of the concept of a sexual Double Standard. | |
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Mortal Kombat began as a video game adaption of a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. The character Johnny Cage is an obvious parody of Van Damme and basically everything about the game is ridiculously over-the-top, from the violence to the characters and endings to the fact that characters can continue living (and fighting) without vital organs. Somehow, the series manages to actually get more gruesome with each installment note The first game let you rip out your opponent's spine. By the 9th game, you got to see the opponent's internal organs being damaged/destroyed in glorious slow motion and X-ray vision.. | |
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The Slumber Party Massacre was written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown as a parody of misogynistic slasher films, but was ultimately filmed as a straight slasher. | |
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The Princess Bride. S. Morgenstern is not real, and there was never a European country called Florin. But Goldman's comments and backstory are pretty convincing... | |
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"The Hound (1924)": The story is written with much more bombast and melodrama than Lovecraft's usual output and reads like Dracula in high gear. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage started as ostensibly an animation test from a new computer-animated Zelda cartoon from DiC Entertainment. It's actually a stealth parody of IGN forum user Joe_Cracker's futile attempts to get his awful but sincere Zelda movie script made into an animated movie. Joe_Cracker himself was fooled at first, even voicing Majora's Mask in the first episode, but the parody became less stealthy once he backed out. | |
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According to director Rumen Petkov, the mind-bendingly surreal Planetata na Sakrovishtata was intended as a parody of the original novel on which it was based and of some of the stranger and more absurd trends in both Eastern European animation and in Bulgarian society at the time. | |
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Gulliver's Travels was also intended as political satire, but the original meaning is mostly lost on modern audiences. It was also lost on most contemporary audiences when it first debuted. In Gulliver's case, the problem was that the parody was too stealthy. Circumstance, sadly, probably wouldn't have allowed it to ever be otherwise; if he had written a straight-up attack on English society, he would have risked political retribution, or at the very least, the ire of other citizens, so his only option was writing a symbolic fantasy story. Then again, it's probably better that it succeeded too well than succeeded too little. The fact that most remakes ignore the second half of the book (only covering Lilliput and Brobdingnag) probably doesn't help. | |
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While it is true that there are conservatives who have thought The Colbert Report was a serious news commentary program, these do not, as is often claimed, include the minds behind the "infamous" Press Corps dinner. The person who invited Colbert knew fairly little about him, but was aware he was a comedian, not a pundit. Ironically, this could make Colbert's appearance itself a Stealth Parody of his own side; and, indeed, many think that this is the premise of the entire show. | |
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Given Scritti Politti's socialist background and politics-laden debut album, one can't make such stereotypical '80s Synth-Pop songs like "Perfect Way" and "Absolute" without tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek, right? | |
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Passenger of Shit, who is perhaps comparable to the former. Some take him at face value, some believe he is, in fact, a cleverly crafted attempt at mocking the hardcore genre. | |
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The Onion sometimes achieves this effect by using the same writing style and format as a serious news website would, and sometimes is rather too successful. More confusingly, its "Kelly" political cartoons so resemble the strawman view of (right-wing) political cartoonists that they've been taken as such by papers who wouldn't know a conservative from Stephen Colbert. | |
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Some have speculated that Death Note is this for Shōnen tropes. Despite being a dark crime thriller with a megalomaniacal mass-murderer for a protagonist, when you get down to it it contains all the basic elements of a typical shonen series, albeit in forms twisted nearly beyond recognition: a young, justice-loving Chaste Hero (a narcissistic Knight Templar with delusions of godhood) who discovers magical powers (a notebook that can be used to instantly murder anybody) and gains a Fairy Companion (an amoral embodiment of death), makes a Worthy Opponent rival (a detective trying to apprehend him for his crimes) and picks up a persistent Genki Girl love interest (a vapid pop idol who's fanatically obsessed with him and, despite barely knowing him, is instantly willing to kill for, die for and marry him). Tsugumi Ohba comes off as a living super computer who knows every single manga trope inside and out. And he loves mindgames. The Stealth Parody interpretation makes a lot of sense. | |
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Some Weekly World News items have been taken seriously by people who didn't check up on where their news was coming from. This was sometimes exacerbated by some news aggregators (lookin' at you Yahoo) that mixed the WWN in with the normal gossip news. | |
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It's up for debate whether Glee is a satire of High School Musical, "High School Musical for adults", or just cashing in on High School Musical's success by completely ripping it off... the jury's out. | |
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The Lexx episode "Prime Ridge," about an "ideal community" obsessed with meat, guns, drugs, and lawn care, was well-received as a satire of Middle American suburbia. Creator Paul Donovan had to explain that it actually satirized how America satirized itself in the film American Beauty (which he called "facile," "holier-than-thou," and "a smug piece of shit"). | |
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The Auralnauts have the series Star Wars Reimagined, a Gag Dub which claims to be an effort to improve the Star Wars original trilogy by making the films more consistent with later entries in the franchise. The editing is seamless, and they got a darn good James Earl Jones soundalike to record Darth Vader's new lines, and those new lines start off as pretty reasonable changes. But as the first episode goes on, the absurdity gradually ramps up, until Darth Vader becomes a fountain of unnecessary exposition who interrupts his lightsaber duel with Obi-Wan to ramble about Senator Jar-Jar Binks. It's around that point that most viewers realize the Auralnauts are actually mocking the mindset that a classic film could be improved by editing it to be more like movies made decades later. | |
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"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!", by Ralph Nader (no, really), which Nader presents as "a practical utopia," is an critical look at America's obsession with the ultra-wealthy. The reviews have yet to notice this. | |
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Snopes.com, a site that talks about urban legends and reveals their research into which ones are false and which ones are true, has a page ("The Repository Of Lost Legends", or "T.R.O.L.L."), which has a list of made-up (and largely absurd) urban legends. It then says they're all true (or if the "urban legend" is mundane, false). One such page talks about how Mr. Ed was a zebra, rather than a horse, because it was better-looking on camera and no one could tell in black-and-white video anyway. For laughs, on the site's forum, the site's proprietors post a lot of allegedly genuine responses to this, either accepting that Mr. Ed is a zebra or talking about all the ways in which it can be proved that Mr. Ed is not a zebra — none of which mention that the thought of a black-and-white zebra looking like a horse in black-and-white video is ridiculous. (It's part of their Aesop about trusting anybody too much. Whether it's a chain mail from your grandma or a trusted authority figure, don't use anyone as a crutch.) The article actually has an explanation for the whole black-and-white thing now, albeit a purposefully utterly absurd Voodoo Shark, describing how black and white too close together are rendered invisible on black and white television, and describing how this led to players being unable to spot referees in football and prisoners effortlessly sneaking past guards in Johnny Cash prison concerts. Despite the fact that, this logic followed to its (internally) logical thread would mean Mr Ed would too be invisible. Also the fact that since THE WORLD wasn’t black and white when TV was, it makes zero sense for the people standing right there to be affected. |
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How It's Actually Made is a Gag Dub of the documentary series How It's Made, replacing the original, informative narration with a stream of inaccurate, satirical, and often disturbing "facts". Even so, series creator Huggbees does a very good impersonation of the voiceover style from the original series, and most episodes start off with a subtle mixture of real facts and plausible lies, before gradually escalating into complete nonsense. The Youtube comments below each episode are filled with people describing how long it took them to realize they weren't watching a real episode of How It's Made. And of course, there was the time CNN got fooled, and linked to his "Bread" episode at the end of a news roundup. Huggbees himself doesn't think he's being particularly stealthy, and says people who mistake his show for the original are just not paying attention at all. | |
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The Alice in Wonderland books are just some goofy fantasy kids' books, right? Wrong. It turns out, they're full of references to then-modern elements of Carol's time, and pretty much just mock the hell out of everything he could get his hands on, even politics and science. In a more straight-forward fashion, the books themselves are deconstructed fairy tales that have Aesops in them played to their logical extent, stripped of any and all content. | |
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Awoken is this to young adult Paranormal Romance, about a girl who literally romances Cthulhu (who takes the form of a hot guy, natch). Supposedly written by by "Serra Elinsen" (a parody of insecure, egotistical YA writers who get into online fights with their critics), it was actually created by The Nostalgia Chick's Lindsay Ellis, Antonella Inserra and Elisa Hansen, plus five ghostwriters, after crowdsourcing ideas in this video series. Continuing that, the TV Tropes page for Serra Elinsen is studiously sanitized for any hint that it isn't meant to be taken seriously, and is full of insane cruft that pops up in only the most overwrought places on the Internet. Even we can't tell what's real and what's fake anymore! |
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Lobo started as DC's over-the-top parody of Wolverine; then he became successful on his own. Marvel came right back (fifteen years later) with Lunatik, an even over-the-topper parody of Lobo, who in turn found brief success. How can you go over the top anymore when they keep moving the top? Rob Liefeld himself would create Bloodwulf as an even further exaggerated spoof of Lobo. Being that he is Rob Liefeld and "over the top" is printed on his business card, he certainly succeeded in making a much more ridiculous character if nothing else. | |
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RedLetterMedia's sci-fi film reviews, such as this epic skewering of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. At first they seem like overly elaborate Accentuate the Negative presentations, but "Mr. Plinkett" makes so many bizarre, Crosses the Line Twice references to his own personal life that it eventually becomes obvious that he's just as fictional as the movies he's reviewing. | |
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The good South African folk responsible for MST3K-bait movie Space Mutiny insist that it's a parody of space adventure films. This claim has been met with skepticism. | |
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Scream attempted to deconstruct the Slasher Movie, which at the time of the first film's release was already in disfavor among audiences. In the process, however, it actually managed to reconstruct the genre as well, leading to a second wave of slasher movies in the late '90s. | |
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This Is That on CBC Radio One parodies the earnest tone of other (factual) CBC Radio programs so well that it may be difficult to tell them apart from the real news shows. It is also difficult to tell which listeners who call in to comment on previous stories are in on the joke, and which are not. | |
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The above risk was exploited in a different manner by the notorious Pokémon fandom presence Farla. Using a pen name, she wrote Lucki, a Take That! aimed at both self-insert authors and the fandom that enables them. She does this by writing a so-called "Middling Sue", not over-the-top in any particular way, who was not recognized as such by the forum community and was in fact praised and defended against her in-story critics. The distortion of the world around Lucki is dispersed at the end through the influence of an Absol. | |
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Michael Cole, has recently took to parodying his past characteristics following his Face–Heel Turn. His current gimmick is an extremely arrogant Small Name, Big Ego who intentionally plays off his past criticisms. | |
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Herbert West–Reanimator: The story is a Frankenstein ripoff done just for commission. | |
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The Game Fucking Fuck Fuck Fucker Fucking Fuck Fucker is a stealth parody of the typical swear-aholic video game reviewer made popular by The Angry Video Game Nerd. The character is increasingly frightening because the longer he, his targets, and his target's fans continue to proliferate, the more obvious it becomes that his reviews are the logical conclusion everyone else is aspiring towards. | |
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Code Geass: At first glance, it's kind of hard to tell if Okouchi and Taniguchi were serious. The villains all dress in ridiculous outfits, guards tend to menace people with spears, and the series appears to have been written for a young William Shatner and Brian Blessed. When you listen to the audio commentaries and other additional materials for the series you begin to realize that the Code Geass staff had a lot of fun working on this production, coming up with all manner of crazy ideas and in-jokes, suggesting they weren't above liberally combining Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny for the sake of increasing entertainment value. For example, the creators used the Britannia Emperor's larger-than-life character design in the show because it was hilarious for them. Combined with Norio Wakamoto's voice acting, this eventually led them to making the "Rocketmoto" sequence during a climatic part of the story, which the staff also approved due to its comedy value. | |
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Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry is a travel guide for a fictional country... except, naturally, that there have been people who didn't realize it was fictional (it can occasionally be found occupying the "Travel" shelves in bookstores). And who can forget Molvania's Eurovision Song Contest entry, "Electronik Supersonik" by Zlad? One reason that Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry is often found on the "Travel" shelves in bookstores is that people who know it's a parody think it's amusing to put it there. |
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The (in)famous Chick Tract strip "Dark Dungeons" has been turned into a movie. The creators have not said if it was serious or not. Given the notoriety of this tract, it's open for debate. note See for yourself https://youtu.be/8qc9JiIiOSQ It's not all in question whether it's meant to be funny (it is) or whether the creators think the message it presents is true (they do not); what makes it ambiguous is that it's an official licenced adaptation played totally straight and allowed to be ridiculous on its own merits. | |
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Metal Gear Solid games, especially the second one (but also the fourth) are sometimes accused of this. With good reason. About half of the reason you suck speeches in the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty could just as easily be directed at the player as they are at Raiden. That's if they're directed at Raiden at all. |
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Naked Came the Stranger came out in 1969 and was meant to parody how obsessed the literary world had become with sex. There's a basic plot — a woman learns of her husband's affair and has many of her own as revenge — but each chapter is a vignette by a different author, with many different tones and styles. It was published under the pseudonym "Penelope Ashe" and became a bestseller before the truth was revealed. | |
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This is the entire point of the online novel Atlanta Nights, which is a collaborative attempt of various sci-fi writers to discredit PublishAmerica, a famed vanity publisher who infamously denigrated both science fiction and fantasy genres. Grammar is nonstandard, a chapter is missing (but there are two different Chapter 12's to make up for it), character descriptions change frequently, the Reset Button is used frequently, and one chapter is generated entirely by a random string generator... the faults are endless. Despite that, PublishAmerica did originally agree to publish the novel. They backed out after the hoax was revealed. You can hear a dramatic reading of Atlanta Nights right here. Its working title was "Naked Came the Badfic", in honor of Naked Came the Stranger, a similar collaborative hoax from The '60s that set out to — and eventually did — prove that you can make a book a #1 bestseller if you load it with enough sex, regardless of the actual literary quality. | |
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Angus McPhee (Argument Guy) from Questionable Content makes his living giving stealth parody speeches — he gets paid to lose arguments for causes he doesn't believe in anyway. He also mentions one occasion where he had been hired to do that job... and so had the other speaker. |
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The film City Limits, which Kim Cattrall, at the '96 MST3K ConventioConExpoFestARama 2: Electric Bugaloo, insists was meant to be a parody. | |
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Garth Marenghis Darkplace, whose premise is a deliberately cheesy homage to 80s action/horror TV shows as envisioned by a comically-pretentious auteur who assumes Viewers Are Morons...albeit played with a completely straight face. | |
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Occasionally, Saturday Night Live celebrity impersonators will have quotes so ubiquitous, they're incorrectly attributed to the original celebrity. Especially common when the celebrities are political, rather than media figures. Sarah Palin never actually claimed that she could see Russia from her house, that was Tina Fey in character as Palin. | |
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The Princess Bride is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel (see its entry under Literature), since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of William Goldman making snide, Genre Savvy remarks on the side; in his place is simply an unnamed preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's frame story comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes, rather than from broader satirical comments on the genre. The film works on the most basic level as straight adventure, with the elements of comic sendup found somewhat between the lines. There are a few actors blatantly hamming it up, but most of them are confined to single scenes (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; Peter Cook as a wedding clergyman), whereas the bulk of the performances in the film are fairly straight and deadpan. Roger Ebert in his review notes that the director, Rob Reiner, seems to be taking the same approach as in his earlier film This is Spinal Tap, where he stays true to the form of the genre he's parodying so that it can be appreciated on either level. | |
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Octocat Adventure was originally taken as a serious attempt by a prepubescent child with a YouTube account to tell a story using the crudest of tools and the worst voice acting available. Rather than responding negatively as usual, many viewers took it upon themselves to sarcastically praise the animation and write detailed analysis of its plot. Then the final episode was released, and everyone learns they have underestimated the creator's capabilities all along. | |
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The character of Borat Sagdiyev, at least to all the unsuspecting people filmed cluelessly interacting with him. The film Borat itself is not an example, though, as by then the viewer has an idea of what's really going on. | |
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Similarly, Oancitizen mocks high-brow art film reviewers. His review of A Serbian Film, for instance, sees him praise the film while containing his rage until he can't take it anymore and his nose starts bleeding (similar to the Salo review above). Then he tries to nuke Serbia. Somewhat averted in that he really is that obsessed with William Shakespeare. | |
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Believe it or not, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage) started out as a parody of dark, edgy comics of its time, specifically Daredevil and Ronin (1983), but forgot it was a parody about three issues in. Although the line was pretty blurred even at the start — the only thing that makes TMNT #1 a parody, and not a regular ninja revenge story with a couple of Daredevil references, is the fact that four turtles and a rat have the leading roles. The comic's creators originally had no idea the comic would be a success, so the fact that it later became Serious Business is hilarious in itself. It was also meant to parody the rampant sell-out/cash-in desires of its era's comic creators, making it more hilarious. | |
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Anal Cunt. Look at the YouTube comments for added lulz — anyone who doesn't realize the band is sucking on purpose gets extremely angry. The same can also apply to Seth Putnam's other projects, Vaginal Jesus (a stealth parody of white supremacists) and Impaled Northern Moonforest (the inventors of acoustic black metal). | |
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As a result of the general quality (or lack thereof) of video comments on YouTube, xkcd once proposed a challenge: Write a stealth parody comment on YouTube that was so stupid, people would immediately recognize it as a parody. Naturally, this is all but impossible. | |
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Neko Sugar Girls itself is actually a Stealth Parody. It becomes blatantly obvious as the series goes on, as well as by looking at the video tags. In fact, a lot of fanime tend to be parodies. | |
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Happy Appy was eventually revealed to be a Troll Fic that deliberately embodied many worn-out creepypasta cliches many years after its original publication. (More specifically, the author originally intended for it to be serious, but after a friend laid out all the flaws in the story before publication, he decided to turn it into a trollpasta and ran with it.) | |
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Large Bagel doesn't even try to hide that it's a parody, it's so over-the-top and always lampshading itself. However people still confuse it for a bad cartoon like My Life Me or Neko Sugar Girls. | |
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Crypt is intended to be a game sent to friends telling them that it is a legitimate Survival Horror title for reaction purposes. In reality, the game is meant to mess with the player. It features puzzles with lying or nonexistent hints, a Pixel Hunt in the middle of a massive maze, and an ending purposefully hard to achieve. The creator describes it as less of a game and more of a "human torture device." | |
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The Adventures of Gyno-Star is a mocking parody of needlessly Anvilicious Feminist Fantasy fiction. Aside from the Intentionally Awkward Title, the protagonist spends more time berating the other superheroes than fighting villains, has the power to make men feel the pain of childbirth, has an ally literally called White Knight, and does things like assaulting stay-at-home mothers for not being the right kind of woman. Despite all this, a number of both Men's Rights Activists and Feminists actually thought the comic was meant to be serious. | |
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Two Australian poets frustrated with the impenetrability of modernist poetry created the character of Ern Malley, to whom they attributed 17 poems built around random cut-and-pasted snippets — from Shakespeare's Pericles to the American Armed Forces Guide to Mosquito Infestation. Their target, celebrated editor Max Harris, was so taken with the work that he rushed out a special Ern Malley edition of his journal Angry Penguins. In something of a backfire, the Malley oeuvre has eclipsed the hoaxers' own work to this day, with many calling it a genuine (if accidental) achievement. | |
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Strawberry Panic!, which loves taking shots at everything and anything related to Yuri Genre works, but amusingly can still be taken as a serious piece too. | |
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Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? is Dachima Inaka's take on Little Sister Heroine stories, only punched up to Mother-Son Incest Subtext rather than Brother-Sister. Mamako's interactions with Masato are outright scenes you would find in any little sister story, complete with "We're related, so it's okay" justifications from Mamako. | |
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The Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episode "Ghost: The Phantom of Daten City" is often considered to be a stealth parody, though young teenage fangirls often take the episode rather seriously. | |
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In Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden basketball is Serious Business. | |
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The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is an Affectionate Parody of Psychological Thriller movies like The Girl on the Train or Gone Girl that is shot and acted so seriously that most of the jokes are Background Gags or characters acting unbelievably dumb. Unfortunately it got mixed reviews because half the critics thought it was just a particularly bad thriller. | |
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Powerup Comics, a creation of Dinosaur Comics fans, is a spoof of video game webcomics that is hard to identify as such, mostly because there are serious video game webcomics that really are that bad or even worse. It spawned a parody, Powercup Comics, which is thus a parody of a parody. Or if you want to be technical and call Two Gamers on a Couch comics video game parodies, its a parody parody of parodies. | |
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Down The Line was also funny since it was made by the same people behind The Fast Show, and anyone who'd seen that show would have immediately recognised the voices of Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, and Rhys Thomas ('Paul' in the Swiss Toni sketches) as the host. | |
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The BBC's Ghostwatch and Alternative 3. In particular, Alternative 3 (broadcast in the UK in 1977) starts out as as a spoof edition of a genuine science programme that had just been cancelled. Investigating the disappearance of top scientists, it unfolds into a vast conspiracy that has established that overpopulation will soon make Earth uninhabitable, and the powers that be are secretly terraforming Mars to abandon everyone else. Despite everyone involved freely admitting it was a hoax, credits that named interviewees and correspondents as actors (some well known at the time) and dating the show to April 1stnote the broadcast was delayed because of industrial action, some people are still convinced that Alternative 3 is real. | |
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Josie and the Pussycats seems like a movie targeted towards young girls, and that's how it was marketed. In reality, it served as a parody of overcommercialization and of the shallowness of the music industry, among other targets. This weird approach, with many people missing the fact that the absurd amounts of Product Placement were part of the parody, caused it to become a Box Office Bomb, but it's since developed a cult fanbase. | |
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The Majin Buu arc of Dragon Ball Z is more humorous than the preceding arcs had been, but it also has the makings of someone lampooning how overblown the series had become at that point — except that someone was Akira Toriyama himself. note Keep in mind that Toriyama was originally (and to an extent, still is) a gag-manga author and that Dragon Ball itself started out as a gag-manga. Two characters make up ridiculously over-the-top names for ineffective attacks in a nod to the Calling Your Attacks nature of the series. One of those characters irreverently invokes more of the series' clichés for drama while fighting the Big Bad (long powers-ups, holding back his true power, trash talking, Heroic Second Wind, and New Powers as the Plot Demands), turning a long-awaited battle with the fate of the universe at stake into an outright farce. Another character gets an enormous power up just by sitting still for a long time as opposed to a grueling training session; while the character providing said power up is introduced in a series of jokes that take the piss out of some of the series' oldest clichés. The characters have become so ridiculously powerful that they can open holes between dimensions just by screaming. The Big Bad initially appears as a fat, pink, childlike demon that kills people by turning them into sweets and eating them; with one character noting that his name sounds like a fart. He is so ridiculously overpowered that he's nigh-unkillable (at one point he recovers from being reduced to smoke), has an insane amount of transformations (8 in total), and causes so much destruction that at one point almost the entire cast (along with Earth's population) is dead and the Earth itself is destroyed. The Joke Character ends up saving the world (momentarily) simply by telling the Big Bad that killing people is wrong. The revered Super Saiyan transformation, which once required extreme circumstances to reach, is easily obtained by a couple of young bratty kids that have no clue of its importance; while the new Super Saiyan form has a very exaggerated appearance and ends up only being useful for stalling the Big Bad due to failing at two critical moments, resulting in the Big Bad being defeated through a collaborative effort instead of one guy's game-changing power up. Finally, at one point, the Big Bad gets curb stomped by a fighting piece of candy. | |
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Ian Benardo, who has appeared on both American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. An obvious troll clearly parodying the usually over-the-top entrants on the show, he has still managed to fool many people in the YouTube comments section into believing he's real. | |
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There's significant evidence that The Lost Village is an intentional attempt to create a narmy, So Bad, It's Good horror series. While kind of terrible, it's terrible in an often hilarious way. Not to mention that the staff is usually fairly competent, or at least incompetent in ways very different from what's on display here. | |
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Showgirls satirizes Hollywood's 'a star is born' movies and shows how good Paul Verhoeven is at revealing the narrative and ideological problems with common tropes — too good, as most people just see Showgirls as trash. | |
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Mobile Fighter G Gundam: The director hated being forced to include a ridiculous, borderline racist plot. So he wrote everyone in an over-the-top manner, with Domon being a Jerkass who does things like sucker punching his opponent to announce that he wants to fight and mocks some of the plans Bandai came up with. For example, he hated the ring, so he had Domon bounce off the damn thing. In the end, it was so ridiculous that it goes from Narm to Narm Charm. The finale is the most over-the-top use of The Power of Love ever, and has an entry on this site's Awesome page. | |
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Re:CREATORS was never meant to be a comedy, but the show's staff clearly ironically portray the interaction of fictional characters with the real world, especially when it comes to genre psychology like the exposition of JRPG's NPC Meteora or idealism of the light novel's heroine Celestia. | |
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I Don’t Like You at All, Big Brother!! is a Stealth Parody for the Brother–Sister Incest subgenre of ecchi anime. Everything in this show is obviously over-the-top that it plays with typical tropes seen in these shows. Of note is that the feeling is arguably mutual between the siblings in question and that the sister is encouraging the brother's pervertedness, even if it's not targeted at her. | |
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The Kingdom Hearts fanfic Hi Roxas starts out looking like a stereotypical twelve-year-old fanbrat's work: cookie cutter High School AU, Rouge Angles of Satin, Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma, Canon Defilement, Relationship Sue, the works. In chapter two, however, it's revealed that the whole thing was an extremely buggy Twilight Town simulation that Roxas had been trapped in until Demyx was sent in to rescue him. There's some clever foreshadowing before The Reveal, too. Pay attention to Demyx's dialogue, and you'll notice that, unlike the rest of the narrative, it's written with correct grammar. | |
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Bookhunter is an action story about some Cowboy Cops that hits on all the usual Police Procedural tropes. The fact that the cops in question are the Library Police, and the enormous manpower and resources they're expending are to retrieve a single stolen book, is treated as completely normal by everyone. | |
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Aversion: Conservapedia is often accused of this, but, sadly, the founder is serious: he works for a conservative interest group headed by his mother and founded it when a student cited that Wikipedia used CE along with AD, which inspired him to create a wiki without "liberal bias". It's used to teach in his classes, in fact. How many of the contributors are serious is another matter. It is fairly widely believed that he banned everyone but the trolls when he tried to crack down on the parody edits. Rational Wiki has described this as a "Poe Paradox", in which people who are too far to the left of his own position (which is most of the genuinely well-intentioned editors who otherwise broadly align with his political views) are banned as being potential parodists, while the ones extreme enough to make the grade are the most likely to be trolls upholding their Kayfabe. | |
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