Poe's Law - TV Tropes
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Poe's Law - TV Tropes (Parodies may be indistinguishable from the real thing)
"Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality anymore." — Jules Feiffer in 1959
The core idea of Poe's Law is that a parody of something extreme can be mistaken for the real thing, and if a real thing sounds extreme enough, it can be mistaken for a parody