Thing is, nobody is really under any illusions, nobody is in the same space as say a non cantonese / chinese speaker watching a chop socky film with english subtitles that you just know are a piss poor translation, but you follow them along anyway.
We all know the lip synch is broken not because it is a foreign language with a different structure and grammar and sounds, but because it isn’t what the person said.
We all know Hitler and XBox come from different eras, but that is what makes it a parody, that is what makes it funny.
One of the funniest ones is the Hitler actor being interviewed, and the subtitles talk about his wife saluting him and him putting the smackdown on the bitch, of course that isn’t anywhere even remotely close to what he was talking about, sure, a german speaker will know what he WAS talking about, but for the rest of us it doesn’t matter, in many ways it works better because we do not understand the audio channel.
For me what makes it one of the funniest ones is that most people who watch it get taken in at first, they think it is an actual interview with the Hitler actor on the subject of Hitler parodies on youtube, because the actor is playing himself, not Hitler.
This makes two assumptions;
- An actor playing himself is himself
- Hitler as we “know” him was the real Hitler
We actually have adequate evidence that neither of these are even remotely true, everyone has “personas” and the more high profile your public persona is the more it is divorced from the truth.
So the parodies now have another intellectual level, we do not just know the subtitles are all bullshit, we also know that the “characters” that make the subtitles funny are also all bullshit.
And in many ways the third and final “amusing level” is when parody meets satire, which we had in the UK in the late eighties / early nineties with Spitting Image and Drop the Dead Donkey on the TV, the televisual equivalent of Private Eye and Punch.
But even there where real events and real people were treated satirically, and real investigations and truths were hinted at, it was all a part of the gag, the court jester, the intention was to poke fun and let off steam, the intention was never to reveal or investigate the truth, in fact the intention was to never actually reveal or investigate the truth, just to use references to it as a seasoning on the joke of the moment.
Hitler was just seasoning on the joke of the moment, which at one point was XBox live, and later as mentioned above a self referential parody on the Hitler parodies themselves.
I think that this is a point that many miss, they think Mike Flex and Anna Dapter are the parody characters pointing fun at news anchors everywhere, I think they are more a parody on the Hitler parody, because everyone with a brain understands that news anchors everywhere are parodies.
“Fake News” is truth, all news is fake news, but “Fake News” is just a parody on Fake News, it’s not revealing anything or investigating anything, nor is it intended to, nor will it ever. Fake News is all there is.
In yesterday’s daily fail there is a story about some skank who claims she overheard a conversation on a train by a guy named Ben who was cheating on his partner, so she blabbed about it on fake news social media and it got reblabbed thousands of times and next thing you know as one commenter said, 50 guys called Ben got dumped.
It’s the birthday paradox writ large and used as a social experiment / social control mechanism.
Fuckerberg’s kike sister flies coach in canada and claims the man who sat next to her in seat 5C was a sexist bastard, no proof, just her story, fuck the evils of fuckbook, some man was allegedly sexist to some skank.
Musk is going to send a car to Mars, well that’s +1 roadster sales to Marvin the Martian, and fuck know tesla needs every sale it can get, what with he “afterthought of the product range” Chevy Bolt ouselling all tesla models on a 2:1 basis last year (and why not, it’s actually not a bad EV, go watch Doug deMuro’s jewtube video)
Meanwhile back home the press is full of adulation because some ginger half german pwinth is engaged to some 3/4 black divorcee skank from the states, does nobody remember Henry 8 and the dissolution of the monasteries and the split from the catholic church?
Merkel would be proud that the german british royal family is marrying a wog immigrant divorcee skank ho, shame she ain’t an aloha snackbar, a few bonus points missed there.
The first child will be called Bitcoin Mulatto Windsor… 5th in line to the throne one day.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho sent congratulations and 100 cases of Brawndo to the happy couple.
Kisses…