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29 Jan 2017

Poe's Law - TV Tropes (Parodies may be indistinguishable from the real thing)

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    Title: Poe's Law - TV Tropes (Parodies may be indistinguishable from the real thing)
    Link: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw

    *“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