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DE-LURCING COMPLETEI'll reference two things. The first being the "It's only funny when it doesn't affect me" syndrome. This of course applies directly to things of this nature just as our malted milkshake inferred. Group A likes X. Group B hates X. Group C is ambivalent to X.
Members of B or C make a video mocking X in some fashion.
B's laugh hysterically. C's giggle as any person does at mindless slapstick. A's will have one of two reactions. The first being to take an objective viewpoint and see the humor in it and just choose not to reply. The second being the second thing I'm going to reference...
"Professional Victim"s (hereby refered to as PV's) as the "Series of Tubes" has dubbed them travel the internet always ready to take offense of something that might grate them the wrong way. Part of the any group will have "professional victims".
In this instance: The A PV's will take extreme offense that X is being mocked. The B PV's will become violently defensive that the A PV's took an offensive position. And the C PV's will feed the flamewar by saying both sides are being "dramaqueens" in taking such extreme stances.
The solution? Everyone learn to laugh at themselves. You'll be better for it.
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