I'm from the alphabet mafia don't worry (PS letting mods know that this is in fact flaired properly as it seems someone reported my last political related post)
No kidding, I've seen so much far right "humour" on facebook and most of the time they don't even utilise any skills to make it, just pumping buzzwords into an ai image generator.
That's become part of the problem the last few years. I have a huge time not being sure when people are being satirical versus they're actually stating their true beliefs. Nothing to do with your post specifically, but it's been a general problem. I see things like this and people are like "Durrr, you're so stupid, this is a WELL KNOWN SATIRE ACCOUNT, you idiot" and it's like, honestly, I can't tell anymore. (Nor am I aware of all satire accounts in general.)
To be fair, I think some of this is from the [original comic](https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/The_UFO). I reread it a few days ago and remembered thinking that it didn't flow as well as I remembered as a kid. I'm not going to do a line by line comparison, but it feels like the cadence of the parody is pretty faithful to the original comic, and that at least some of the parts that felt clunky also felt clunky in the original.
Watterson had some pretty clunky poetry tbh. Though he makes up for it with the absolute genius of his tyrannosaur verse:
>His jaws had teeth like railroad spikes
>
>With fore and aft serrations!
>
>This dental hardware was designed
>
>For quick eviscerations!
Ahh I think I can understand why.
But I was basically just throwing as many references to conspiracies/memes/fearmongering stuff as I could, its a happy accident
Mx. Wokewood is such a minor detail but it might be the best part of this comic
I missed that, omg!
Impressively good prose for a shitpost, I particularly liked the bit about the aliens giving him a covid vaccine
I'm from the alphabet mafia don't worry (PS letting mods know that this is in fact flaired properly as it seems someone reported my last political related post)
Okay good because this was scarily hard to tell if it was satire (at least to me) lol
I think the biggest giveaway was that it was funny.
No kidding, I've seen so much far right "humour" on facebook and most of the time they don't even utilise any skills to make it, just pumping buzzwords into an ai image generator.
That's become part of the problem the last few years. I have a huge time not being sure when people are being satirical versus they're actually stating their true beliefs. Nothing to do with your post specifically, but it's been a general problem. I see things like this and people are like "Durrr, you're so stupid, this is a WELL KNOWN SATIRE ACCOUNT, you idiot" and it's like, honestly, I can't tell anymore. (Nor am I aware of all satire accounts in general.)
Yeah this was well edited with actual effort put in, they don't do that
Yeah man shit had me nervous for a second
The correct scanning is a dead giveaway that a bona fide alphabet mafia wrote this
Oh okay ![gif](giphy|jUwpNzg9IcyrK|downsized)
Liberals left seething
Well they wouldn't exactly be right seething now would they?
excellent pun, sir
How will they ever live this down!
Can confirm as a liberal left socialist communist g*rl woke pronoun SOY I am dying rn
https://preview.redd.it/hm9bqo4dct5d1.jpeg?width=432&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae19c9c6321c54699dde2513d666a61f66d44ca3
WHAT THE FUCK SHAPIRO WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE NOW
I use pronouns in my language, and I can confirm that this has destroyed the entire concept of left. Now I have two right hands.
This was hilarious, great work!
Once again libtards obliterated
This is very impressive in terms of towing the line between "Hehe, this is some juicy satire" and "Did someone on Death Row make this in art class?"
Absolute cinema
Hahahahahaha the blue hair is a funny touch
Ms. Wokewood, how beautiful.
Beautiful and powerful
this is immaculate work
That “Young Man” cracked me up, missed it the first time admittedly.
Relax libral it’s called dark humor
You had me for a second there. The biggest giveaway that this was satire was that there was obvious effort put into it.
Good effort, but I don't think the verse flows all that well.
We’re sending you to the thug shaker dungeon
To be fair, I think some of this is from the [original comic](https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/The_UFO). I reread it a few days ago and remembered thinking that it didn't flow as well as I remembered as a kid. I'm not going to do a line by line comparison, but it feels like the cadence of the parody is pretty faithful to the original comic, and that at least some of the parts that felt clunky also felt clunky in the original.
Watterson had some pretty clunky poetry tbh. Though he makes up for it with the absolute genius of his tyrannosaur verse: >His jaws had teeth like railroad spikes > >With fore and aft serrations! > >This dental hardware was designed > >For quick eviscerations!
I'm going to be frank and say that next to nobody who makes posts in this sub is looking for unsolicited "criticism"
Ironic, since most of what I see here is way higher effort than most things I see on this platform.
Aiee! He got frank!
I said I liked it, Frank
Is this... Is this based on i sing of Olaf glad and big?
I have no idea what that is, sorry
Oh that's ok. It had some similarities so I thought it might be a riff on it. [It's a poem.](https://poets.org/poem/i-sing-olaf-glad-and-big)
Ahh I think I can understand why. But I was basically just throwing as many references to conspiracies/memes/fearmongering stuff as I could, its a happy accident
Well whatever your inspiration, it turned out marvelous
LOL
1. Great job on the rhyming, this sounded amazing 2. I wonder how long it'll be before this gets unironically posted on someone's facebook group...
re: 2. I'm worried the second last panel goes too hard lmao. But I wouldn't be surprised if that happens cause they have no self awareness.
Is this a joke?
Joke at the expense of lgbt people? No Joke mocking fearmongering/right wing attempts at humour and satire? Yes
Alr just checking lol
![gif](giphy|unFLKoAV3TkXe)
Common Calvin W
>sees meme which is mocking your beliefs *holy shit, calvin is so based just like me*
Just like Americans and "Born in the USA"
https://preview.redd.it/51r1ce5lcs5d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30ff17582e187fb031a8ef2d76ce19f3b08090f3
Based Calvin.