• Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    How is this a parody? It’s not poking fun at the original or pointing out its flaws.

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      7 months ago

      quoth wikipedia: “A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.” … “The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said ‘parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text.’”