It's Malcom Gladwell so take it with a grain of salt, but his episode on The Satire Paradox was great: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-

It's Malcom Gladwell so take it with a grain of salt, but his episode on The Satire Paradox was great: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-satire-paradox https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-sati... The premise is that despite Satire being an attempt at speaking truth to power, the people who are targets of satire will often think to themselves "I get that it's satire, but don't they make good points". I don't know that I've actually seen this in real life, but he mentioned lots of conservatives liked the Colbert Report because despite knowing it was making fun of them, they agreed with the messages. I've seen this with myself in Portlandia. I live in Portland, and while I'm not a stereotype of a hipster, I moved to Portland for the "reasons people move to Portland" and I often find Portlandia sketches manage to capture the essence of the very things they're trying to make fun of. Ultimately I don't think people taking the bee seriously is a bug, it's a feature.