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This is a wonderful example of how not to do parody. The writing is essentially what a child might come up with. Here's a guideline for future writers who wish
by biot 13y ago
This is a wonderful example of how not to do parody. The writing is essentially what a child might come up with. Here's a guideline for future writers who wish to replicate such an inane blog post:
1. Take every element from the post you are parodying and go
full retard.
2. Don't bother including any subtlety; just be crass.
3. Don't tie the points together into any sort of cohesive
statement based on an overall theme.
4. Whatever you do, do not structure your parody in such a way
that demonstrates insight into the topic of discussion.
That last point is the really important thing if you want the weakest parody you can imagine. Just substitute each sentence with a dumbass version. Unleash your inner bully and taunt others by parroting back exactly what they say, only dumb down and twist the words to sound as stupid as possible. Under no circumstances should there be a "read between the lines" subtext.
- mhartl 13y agoThe OP took the elements of the original announcement—the pretentiousness, the naïve pomposity, the buddy-buddy informality—and turned them up to eleven. The result is an effective send-up of a post that richly deserved to be mocked.
- biot 13y ago> The OP took the elements of the original announcement—the > pretentiousness, the naïve pomposity, the buddy-buddy > informality—and turned them up to eleven. That's an interesting choice of words you used. How can something be both pretentious and buddy-buddy informal? Pretentious: "Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed." Greater important and talent than possessed? Meyer conveys an informal team of three people and an intern. She also admits to just having enough knowledge of Adobe Illustrator to be dangerous. You even admit that it's buddy-buddy and informal, which downplays the importance. What if you got the impression that the design session was buddy-buddy because that's what it authentically was? Should she have lied and said that it was a rigorous exercise that was formally structured as a meeting of non-equals rather than a collaboration of colleagues? Pompous: "Exaggeratedly or ostentatiously dignified or self-important." Perhaps I'm not seeing the "naïve pomposity" in the post. Selecting what to convey in a logo is by definition subjective. The same applies for conveying what kind of food or clothing you like. I submit that any sufficiently detailed description of the rationale behind your food and clothing choices could be similarly mocked, unless you disregard taste by eating the cheapest food possible, or disregard color and style by wearing the cheapest clothing possible.
- ante_annum 13y agoI think that you're missing that this embodies the Big Dogs brand perfectly. They don't care about the intricacies of logo design, or anything else related. It's a dog. It's big. There shouldn't be lines to read between.
- alphakappa 13y agoI'm not sure I quite agree with you here. I nearly died laughing when I read this parody. Mostly because I was reading Marissa's post in my head and this parody perfectly highlighted the pretentiousness of that post. (I'm still not sure what the point of replacing serifs with 'scallops' was)
- sscalia 13y agoYour comment is a wonderful example of how to suck the fun out of possibly anything.
- kubiiii 13y agoYou must be fun at parties.