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In this scene from the latest episode of The Boys, Tek-Knight, who is the series' "alt-right" Batman parody (whose family made their wealth catching runaway slaves), yells at his black butler for not properly cleaning the restraining and torture devices in his gay BDSM dungeon.… pic.twitter.com/ii4yAMaUHd
— Degenerate Media (@DGenMedia) July 5, 2024
bonus thread from plebbit: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheBoys/comments/1dvi7mc/both_quotes_taken_verbatim_from_interviews/
edit: found the writer! https://x.com/anslemasylum
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I've never watched the show, so two questions:
1. Is this an accurate description?
2. Why is modern satire so awful?
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1. yes
2. unironic trump derangement syndrome. The creator of the show actually did an interview where he said he was writing Season 1 when trump got elected and everything sort of changed for him after that. Which is why season 1 was good and actually a pretty funny satire of corporations, pop culture, wingcucks, etc. and then S2 onwards just became an r-slured circlejerk where every bad guy is a trump analogy or racist
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Behead all wingcucks NOW
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2. genuinely threatening subversion is a quick way to get removed and blacklisted from everything
also the mainstream consciousness is much more in line with the intelligentsia than it used to be so theres not much room for either to poke fun at the other
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everything described about this episode in this thread is 100% true
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