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Jezebel's "astute film critic" complains that Chun-Li is not featured in the Mortal Kombat trailer
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It's someone taking the piss. It's just there to get people to answer specific things. The point isn't what's written in the "article", it's to say "omg lmao look at how angry they are isn't it silly".
Not a joke per say, see it as a trap in text form. Or as the setup for the eventual joke, which is the reaction of people. It's low effort a low hanging fruit. But it works. Just look at the reaction, probably got her her click quota for the month just with that.
Look, there's a woman writing about video games, there's got to be a problem, but we're not sure what it is yet.
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OP mistook Jezebel for DualShockers.
The people responsible have been sacked.
The point is to laugh at people disliking a news outlet incorrectly reporting on something? Okay, sure.
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so many people have gotten got by this i'm now starting to wonder if i'm the one who's been got by thinking "surely not this many people have been got"
So let's just talk about it.
Gamers are more likely to correct games (or otherwise) journalists for simple mistakes if they are women.
They are more likely to ridicule female games journalists for making trivial mistakes about incidental game details than they are male journalists.
Let's post some examples to show people why this is a problem.
It's not that the joke is supposed to be funny or not. It's just damning how many people could fall for and believe it was real, then trying to correct the woman writer, along with the proceeding defensive reactions after finding out they've been had. "It's not that I have a problem for falling for it. You, the writer, are stupid instead." The call to attention of that issue is the reason this exists. The context around the article, not the joke itself.
If nothing else, learn to discern what is obviously satire and not believe every headline you read.
If nothing else, learn to discern what is obviously satire and not believe every headline you read.
They definitely would. See the times gamers flipped out because journalists played Cuphead and Doom Eternal badly, both of whom were male, were they not? Not to say that gaming doesn't have a massive sexism problem, because it clearly does.
The article is chuckle-worthy, but the reactions from those who are unamused are hilarious. For those who don't understand the purpose of the article, read the first comment underneath it.
Jezebel ain't the Associated Press.
Ironically it's a tweet of a female Broadway actor/writer that made it got viral
I mean, did none of you people who "don't get it" see the office? It's literally the same joke. This is what's being made fun of. The punchline lis literally Dwight grunting and upset that he can't correct Jim's clearly on-purpose bad summary.
LOL it'd be funny if it weren't so true. Rise up gamers, etc. So many of you are Dwight, it's...it's a lot to take in.
EDIT: Ugh, no timestamp support, but it's at :50s.
LOL it'd be funny if it weren't so true. Rise up gamers, etc. So many of you are Dwight, it's...it's a lot to take in.
EDIT: Ugh, no timestamp support, but it's at :50s.
Anyone else read the article then the explanation in this thread on how it's supposed to rile people up and immediately think of this?
Even if you really want to remove the sexism issue, it's problematic how many people can't discern what is obviously not real.
Not too get political but I think we've seen that (and the consequences) in the real world for several years now. I just had a Qanon person harass me for talking shit about Elon Musk.
I know you're joking but for all the Dwights, because dissecting the frog kills it.
That power. Incredible.
It really is a greatest hits era thread.
There's so many layers to this that I think it might actually be a brilliant piece of writing.
Listen folks it's not that complicated. It's obvious misogyny because the thread titles and articles about it are running with "Jezebel did dumb thing." The framing matters.
The ex post facto tongue clucking, and even worse the "it was a mistake and they tried to cover it" takes baited a bunch of people, including posters in this thread into showing their asses. Take the L and move on.
The ex post facto tongue clucking, and even worse the "it was a mistake and they tried to cover it" takes baited a bunch of people, including posters in this thread into showing their asses. Take the L and move on.
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Some people who "got it" are getting weirdly irritated for no reason about something that would be nothing if its point wasn't right.
Isn't that site was owned by Gawker Media which then got bought out by some hedge fund that fired everybody decent?
I mean, it's hard to tell satire from not with their usual body of "work".
That said, yes, clearly the article was meant to be a troll, but... It wasn't particularly witty or funny. So basically as expected, meh.
I mean, it's hard to tell satire from not with their usual body of "work".
That said, yes, clearly the article was meant to be a troll, but... It wasn't particularly witty or funny. So basically as expected, meh.
