Proof:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19880834
posted 12/21/2024
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created 01/06/2025
Uh Oh:
The community’s existence alone -without a clear satire label- has made a fair number of people uncomfortable. I hope ‘uncomfortable’ is the greatest extent of harm caused, though to be clear, greater distress not encompassed by this word is a valid response that I don’t take lightly. I’m currently working on a way to make the community’s intent clear without “ruining the magic”.
Please feel free to DM me if you don’t feel comfortable commenting publicly
Edit:
Good morning! What a sad thing to read upon first waking lol. Everyone is pretty much saying the same thing, so I’ll clarify this bit
The purpose of Chad is to be a hated vector for general satire and high effort shitposting. The purpose of the community is to be a circlejerk-style platform for content that requires a level of moderator scrutiny I can’t expect from the mods of regular shitposting communities.
A lot of the content that seems to ‘fall flat’ are basically inside jokes and obscure references. I’ve made a post that’s only funny if you’re a law student; one that’s only funny to opera nerds and/or French speakers; some etymology/language gags; two best enjoyed by people with ADHD; one for people who read leftist theory. I include references to ITYSL, Monty Python, Napoleon Dynamite, and more. Much of it is parody of obscure Lemmy things that only the chronically online will catch.
This doesn’t mean I think your opinions and feelings about it are in any way invalid. The thoughts shared here have given me a lot to think about, so thank you
This is waaaay too soon to be funny.
Any attempts at satire mimicing current politics will just be depressing. The politicians you’re making fun of end up unironically repeating the satire, bar for bar, in a way that is worse that anyone could have imagined. Your community is pushing that line a bit too far. Personally, it’s not even that I had to question whether it’s satire, but rather that I knew 100% that it’s satire while also realizing that someone in the White House would totally and unironically agree with some of it.
Honestly, “NotTheOnion” communities have crazier, more out-of-pocket headlines than The Onion now, and I don’t think it’s even that close. IMO charged satire like that community, even if it’s making fun of bad people, needs a break until reality gets less chaotic. Maybe in the future this will be something we can all just “laugh off” with jokes but right now things are way more serious than that for a lot of people and these attempts at dark satire just make that worse for them even when it’s obviously a joke.