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.
  
  Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?
  
  The "Stan Kelly" persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.
  
  Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!
  
  Yeah it's the Onion
  
  Thank you! Good stuff.
  
  His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.
  
  Thank you.
  
  Wait. So they're not some right wing pundit?
  
  It's more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it's funny.
  
  The character "Kelly" isn't explicitly right wing, instead he's supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than "Pro-choice" or "Pro-life" Kelly is "Pro-abortion", because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization... because police dramas wouldn't have anything write about.
  Oddly, Kelly's "wrong as possible" stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.
  
  My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.
  
  Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.
  
  I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.
  
  It does make sense. The artist is too good though, apparently I've been eating onions for a long time.
  
  Huh. TIL
  
  They're really good, consistently.
  I'm not sure if there's a better archive, but you can find a few more here:
  https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/
  
  https://theonion.com/opinion/cartoons/
  
  This is a better link.
  
  That one's clearer in its satire
  
  Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They're parodying his style.
  
  I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion
- 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.
  
  Respect to that. Weird Al has full on Dolly Parton vibes, but I can see someone who takes their music seriously and is up their own ass getting pissed
  
  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.
  
  I remember it was that he felt his managers should have told him he was an idiot more than they misinformed him. He was upset about what they didn't say, not what they said.
  
  Haha, that's how I know about it too. I just read some interview with Coolio a few weeks ago where he talked about it. The interview was linked here on Lemmy.
  
  He sure acted right on his follow up though.
- He does, but he doesn't have to.

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