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This is the best example of Poe's Law I've ever come across [1]. I honestly can't tell if this is brutal satire or someone's legit endgame. The more I watch the
by madrox 5y ago
This is the best example of Poe's Law I've ever come across [1]. I honestly can't tell if this is brutal satire or someone's legit endgame. The more I watch the more inclined to think it's satire, but there's a lot of other things in this space I didn't think could be serious that are.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
- mdolon 5y agoThis must be an art project, right? Legitimately still perplexed.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoGuess with the "Silicon Valley" series wrapped up, writers gotta still write.
- Torn 5y agoI'd love to think it's post-irony or meta-irony[1], but really I suspect it's legit and they are trying their best. Bless. Feels like an order of magnitude more risky as an investor than Fyre festival 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuSveDAlpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuSveDAlpI
- ccbccccbbcccbb 5y agoLooks like an example of the emerging genre of post-truth-quasi-parody, where if goal A fails then it is represented as goal B. Goal A is to dupe the most gullible of cryptozealots, trying to gain financially, goal B is to mock them, gaining exposure. Win-kinda-win.
- me_me_me 5y agoMy opinion flipped 3 times when watching it. It like magnetic truth pole, the needle just spins.