2mo ago

AI just steals other people's labor

I wonder if anyone notices.

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Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.
- Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.
  
  They're really fucking good at it, then.
  
  Thank you.
  
  Wait. So they're not some right wing pundit?
- The comic isn't serious
  This is the artist for The Onion
  
  Al also happily shared the comic yesterday on BlueSky.
- I remember an interview where Al was talking about his early career. Madonna asked him “When ya gonna do ‘Like a Surgeon’”? They talked about it, and she said “But only if I can be in the video.” Al, who was MUCH less popular than Madonna at the time, couldn’t say “Okay!” fast enough.
  
  "Ok, you can have a million dollars, but only if I can give you a car too" 😄
  
  And then they fell madly in love. Madonna was a terrible influence on Al, leading him to a life of debauchery and selfishness, which culminated down to Columbia, where he was involved in a shootout with Pablo Escobar... or so his autobiographical movie told me.
- Coolio was pissed that Al parodied him. He regretted it later in life and realized Al was great.
  
  Coolio wasn’t cool about it.
- Except for Coolio. Coolio had mad beef.
  
  A few weeks ago, I think I read (here on Lemmy!) that he regretted his beef. In fact, I think he said he thought his managers gave him bad information to cause the beef.
  Before that I didn't even know there was any, so please don't think me any kind of expert on the topic.
  
  He sure acted right on his follow up though.
- He does, but he doesn't have to.

I hope Al sees this, because I think he'd think it's hilarious.
- Weird Al shared it on his birthday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBenaUQS8U-/
  
  Beautiful.
- On ther other hand, I hope that AI sees this.

Hang on. This ain’t a real Kelly, there’s no crying Statue of Liberty.
- I can’t tell what the moral is without lady liberty crying.
- From the art, this looks like a verrrry early one. Must not have added it to the repertoire yet.
  
  Its a day old.

Whew boy people ate the hell out of this onion.
- I never really get the point they're trying to make in these comic parodies (if there is any), which makes it less meaningful to me if people eat the onion.
  
  They're usually a parody of shitty Ben Garrison political cartoons, but artists are expected to crank out more and more content and this guy has found his niche. So you eventually start getting some that aren't really a parody of anything; except maybe his own work. Although this one is specifically about parodies... I'm just gonna step away before this gets too meta.
  
  It’s not the onions we eat that matters, but the onions grown along the way

Weird Al actually licenses the songs for parodying because free use is thin ice.
- Most of Al's music isn't parody. Smells like Nirvana is one of very few that is, as the song Al writes is about the original work/artist
  
  Amish paradise is another and probs my favourite of Al's

If Al is so great why did he lose on Jeopardy?
- I know. He just couldn't get the questions right.
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  ight
- I believe ‘types of sauerkraut’ was one of the categories.
  I have it on good authority Weird Al hates sauerkraut.
- He absolutely killed it on wheel of fortune* though.
  *On game grumps

l0/IO title
- Oh. Someone did notice. How? You use your own font?
  
  No, I use context
  
  Apparently nobody noticed Michael Jackson is with a bunch of children either
- Al has used that joke himself on Xittter.

The video for Fat was awesome.
- I watched both it and Bad recently. I loved how close he got it. Same set, same moves, just as a fat person. Honestly brilliant.
  I've only seen that one and Amish Paradise, but I've never seen the video for Gangster Paradise, so idk if he always gets it so close.

I haven't exactly been to a large number of big concerts in my life, but still I have to say that Weird Al's was the best. It was late 90s. He played every one of his hits in costume and nailed it every time. For the finale, he buried the front rows (I was in row 2) in fake bubble snow while playing Christmas at Ground Zero. It was gloriously ridiculous. 10/10 experience. Hardest working man in showbiz. UHF was a documentary. (I still haven't seen the new movie. I really should get on that.)
- The biopic? It's good. Not as funny as it could have been, but Radcliffe is amazing and you learn many interesting facts about Al (like the steamy relationship with Madonna).
  
  It was a goddamned masterpiece!

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It's the law that you can make fun of famous works of art for comedy, social commentary, parody, and just to make fun of them.... Which is very interesting. It's interesting that that was decided and made a law.
Jesters must have the freedom to mock the King.

If you think this is true and that creating entirely new lyrics to a song that are both coherent and also funny isn't a talent, I'd like to hear your parody song. Oh not to mention actually playing an instrument and being able to sing well.
- If you think this comic is true...
- I write parody lyrics all the time, they are childish and incredibly vulgar.
  Like the time I off the top of my head changed the lyrics to "I want to break free" to "I want to fuck Steve" and serenaded my buddy Steven. I made it through most of the song with it being pretty close.
  I said "I need to write that down" and Steve was like "Nah, spontaneously that shit was funny. Writing it down would just make it weird" I was inclined to agree.

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Are those angel or children Jackson molested? I mean if it's his heaven.
- It may just be their hell.

Title has some merit worthy of discussion, comic doesn't understand Weird Al at all. Not even close to a comparison.
- These comics are from the Onion iirc, they're intentionally shit takes.
  
  Kind of iffy to post this outside of that context, IMO. Maybe some of the other works from this author are more obvious, but it's really hard to recognize this one as satire if you don't already know it.
  
  Wasn't aware of that. For the Onion, that's oddly not funny in any way.
- Kelly comics are not to be taken seriously

AI didn't steal nothing. SHITTY companies "think" they can replace people work with AI and Robots. And i hope them to fall miserably.
BTW. If a Parody is stealing, then all the art even created is stealing from what there was before.

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