Is it or is not satire — that is the question on everybody’s mind.
On Twitter this past Thursday, an absurd sketch video showing a blatantly racist white woman harassing two black boys playing basketball in her neighborhood went viral.
The video was over the top for a couple of reasons: The woman called the boys “monkeys,” carried a whip and tried to literally whip them.
Obviously, nothing like that occurs in real life, meaning the video must have been a comedy sketch, right?
Watch, and decide for yourself:
This wins the award for most-woke activism.
Generation hope markets these “inspiring videos” to “change makers” like the Diversity, Equity, & inclusion departments.
They believe it’s still 1840. pic.twitter.com/xjmhSuqVl2
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) May 12, 2022
Surely, this is satire, right? Plenty of viewers certainly believe so.
Look:
This cannot be real. It has to be a parody of DEI videos
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) May 12, 2022
But – it MUST be satire! It is SO bad. It must be on purpose. Please tell me that it is SO satirical that they don’t even drop the act to make the joke. Andy Kaufman level satire. No? No? Please?
— Stuart Black (@stuartjblack) May 14, 2022
Answer: It’s a parody.
Question: Did you really have to be told that or are you just so intent on making everything reality that you’d ignore something as obviously satirical as this?Don’t answer that. It was rhetorical.
— 23. (@PurpleG44836141) May 14, 2022
The problem is that the video traces back to “Generation Hope,” a group that purports to be in the business of “providing life lessons and inspiration with the goal of making the world a better place.”
Moreover, over on the group’s YouTube page, the comments are serious, with people praising the group for their “inspirational” and “touching” stories.
Yet their other stories are as absurd as the one that went viral:
- “16 Year Old VIRGIN Sold To BILLIONAIRE, What Happens Next Is Shocking”
- “Drunk Dad ATTACKS His 8 Year Old GENIUS Kid, What Happens Next Is Shocking”
- “Husband FAT SHAMES 300LBS Wife, What Happens Next Is Shocking”
- “Evil Babysitter DROWNS KID in Pool!! Leaves HIM For Dead!!!!”
- “Evil Son Demands Playstation 5 From Broke Mom, What Happens Next Is Shocking”
So which is it — are these videos hilariously made satire, or are they for real?
Some of the evidence suggests, amazingly enough, that they’re 100 percent real content produced by “woke” zealots who think the world really functions like this.
The evidence includes the ending of the first clip up top.
Watch:
Unfortunately, it’s not satire. They are essentially low budget Woke Lifetime movies. https://t.co/fu6IOEjaIJ
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) May 13, 2022
“It’s important to treat everyone with respect and kindness. But it’s OK to stand up for yourself when someone treats you bad, even if it’s scary. Because when you stand up for yourself, you’ll be able to stand up for others that are also in need. I hope you enjoyed today’s lesson on courage,” two of the actors say in the clip.
“Make sure to share this with your friends and family so they can also learn this message on courage. Like this video and subscribe to the channel to see more videos like this. And remember, here at Generation Hope, we’re trying to make the world a better place one story at a time.”
That didn’t sound jokey-jokey at all.
Based on this evidence, some critics believe these videos are essentially “woke porn” produced for leftists by leftists.
Standard leftist procedure here: When problems don’t actually exist, no worries, simply just create them and then respond to them as if you are super powerful fighting some super hardcore problem that does actually exist. Lmao. Sad tbh.
— JLulz (@JLulz88) May 12, 2022
This company has probably secure multiple million dollar contracts to produce this stuff for Fortune 500 HR and DEI departments.
Yes, we have DEI departments now with senior DEI leaders making $1M/year.
— Ryan Stephens | Getting Dialed In 📈 (@ryanstephens) May 12, 2022
When you accidentally hire the folks at SNL to create hard hitting D.E.I. propaganda videos. 🤣
— Sean O’Shea (@thegooddogsean) May 12, 2022
But other critics say not so fast.
They point to a page on Generation Hope’s website where the group promises to “run world class video marketing campaigns” for partner companies.
The insane “DEI training videos” you’ve been seeing going around are not DEI training videos. They are clickbait that is trying to go viral for exactly the reasons they’re going viral: cringe/social justice pro or anti. Receipts below: 🧵
— Entropyrian (@entropyrian) May 13, 2022
Generation Hope is the youtube channel that uploaded the mom whipping the guy in a wheelchair. That channel makes content designed to go viral so that it can sell mobile game ads.https://t.co/lce8x23lct
— Entropyrian (@entropyrian) May 13, 2022
Here’s their website where they lay this out clearly:https://t.co/Rl16APBJBq
— Entropyrian (@entropyrian) May 13, 2022
They also note that many of the group’s videos make references to certain mobile video games:
Their featured video on their channel is not only not exactly socjus themed, it’s also quite openly an ad for a mobile game called Gin Rummy Stars.https://t.co/kTj9yY8bwS
— Entropyrian (@entropyrian) May 13, 2022
Plus, and most importantly, some of the videos are fantastical in nature, in that they depict things that couldn’t actually happen in real life:
My personal favorite is this one, where a black child whos dreams of winning a million dollars by playing Word Farm Adventures are threatened when he and his mother are arrested for having hot dogs, only to then be released, and the racist cop then summons the undead. Not kidding
— Entropyrian (@entropyrian) May 13, 2022
— Entropyrian (@entropyrian) May 13, 2022
But again, the comments on the group’s videos are pretty serious, so who knows what’s really going on …
Dude… read the comments to their videos. They are not parody. The audience is not receiving them as a joke.
— BooManBass (@BooManBass) May 13, 2022
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