There is a lot of sudden and validly upset awareness now about how rightwing comedy has become culturally ascendant, to the point where it very well may have swayed a major election the wrong way. Many of us saw it coming.
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It’s important to remember that for the most part, all of the most influential rightwing comedy is well funded and deliberately pushed by tech billionaires and finance bros as “what you should watch” on every online platform.
And they have done a very good job of making a lot of mediocre overrated guys famous and rich: less funny assholes who rely heavily on the support of their “unsafe space” fanbases, and lame rightwing victim tropes, and their own version of ideological agreement clapter.
I have called them before “mma comedy” but it’s a more extensive problem than that dumb scene - as it includes now a few renowned dorks and wimps like Elon Musk as their loudest advocates.
There’s a lot of hilarious comedy out there that is overtly or playfully political from a leftwing or progressive point of view, that is undeniably funnier - with bigger, more frequent, and more dangerous laughs - but is also less rewarded and likely even suppressed.
The goodguys are still very much in the fight in comedy, but they are about a decade behind in the algorithms and the manufactured online publicity game.
This is partly because there are simply zero leftwing billionaires, and even the wealthy liberals out there don’t really pay attention to comedy outside of mainstream television, and never seem to support it at its most dangerous, absurd and subversive.
And Milo Yiaiaiannopououloious too, tantrum instructing his staff flunkies on slack to complain his Mercer family funders that he didn’t yet have the necessary $1M budget *to be able to do anything*
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