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xyzzy
lemm.ee

Every time I see "backlash" in a news headline it's always just Twitter culture warriors who are always angry about something

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IHeartBadCodereply
kbin.social

Literally from the article:

One person wrote on X (formerly Twitter)

And that's it for citations on this "backlash". "This story is fucking trash" and since one person on kbin said that, it must be true!

Sometimes I read this garbage and I feel like it's that part from Mean Girls.

Stop trying to make outrage happen!

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Potatos_are_not_friendsreply
lemmy.world

I'm pretty confident it's always the writer who smells an opportunity for clicks, do they write the story first then look for a source.

If they luck out, they'll find it trending. But mostly it's the "one person on Twitter" scenario.

The worst part is when the content gets shared.

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niktemadurreply
lemmy.world

500 clicks in an hour, half a goddamned penny of ad revenue, then it's time to move on to the next droplet of junk content.

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curiousaurreply
reddthat.com

You sound like an uneducated misogynist, but could you at least explain why you hold this opinion?

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Neatoreply
ttrpg.network

Less surprise and more disappointed. They are doing the same thing the news stations did during Trump's first presidential run: giving them free advertising.

If they don't court their fan's favor, they will decline (again) in popularity. One-off stunts for ratings that are unpopular have the potential to hurt them in the long run.

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Vincereply
lemmy.world

I haven't seen it and probably won't, but maybe it's a really really funny bit and it only works if she's in it.

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sramder
lemmy.world

IDK… if this cameo causes one nutty trump voter to flip for her and dilute his numbers it seems harmless. I wasn’t watching ;-)

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AutoTL;DR
lemmings.world

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Saturday Night Live instantly started receiving backlash after Nikki Haley made a surprise appearance during the Feb. 3 show.

During a town hall sketch for the cold open, the Republican presidential candidate made a cameo to ask James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump some questions of her own.

Ayo Edebiri later popped up at the end of the sketch and directed a question at Haley: “I was just curious, what would you say was the main cause of the Civil War?

Following Haley’s appearance on SNL, some people took to social media to criticize the NBC sketch comedy show for giving her screen time but not other candidates.

One person wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Nikki Haley will only ever diss trump on a comedy show, and WTF is slavery denier doing on SNL anyway?

Saturday Night Live sure does have a long track record of comedy-washing hateful conservatives.” Trump previously hosted the show in 2015 while running for president for the 2016 election.

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ZeroCoolreply
slrpnk.net

*SNL gets mentioned*

Randos for the last 45+ years: "That's still a thing? SNL hasn't been funny since I was watching it in high school/college!"

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JeeBaiChowreply
lemmy.world

It's the same edgy dumb kids who post 'does anyone even care?!?' for internet points, except that everyone finds them an annoying waste of bandwidth and contribute next to nothing to the discussion.

Edit: actually, they contribute nothing to the discussion. Nothing at all.

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pewterreply
lemmy.world

It's a weird thing to say because you can't know that it's not funny or still not funny without watching it. SNL is and has always been hit or miss with humor. Some humor ages well. Some doesn't. Sometimes it's really funny. Sometimes it's ok.

I watched the first episode when they had some anniversary airing and a lot of those jokes are... ok.

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Nougatreply
kbin.social

I used to watch it all the time, until NBC pulled it off of Hulu. "Guess I don't need to watch that anymore."

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