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Nervous-Dark-4559 t1_j5ygimg wrote

Not just that, everyone stopped talking about this the after children in North Korea where shot to death because....they brought this show home (after vacation) and showed to other classmates, and the supreme leader was not amused

On top of that, iirc families where send to work in mine (aka slaves for life)

techers and other employees from said school (who were completely unrelated..) where dismissed and send who knows where

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homkono22 t1_j5ydys9 wrote

As much as I hate that toy, I hope blackeyedpeas loses, or else future things that should fall under parody could be affected with examples like this.

It's so obviously a parody with the intention to make it funny and referecial, not copy the original piece. Anyone should be able to do so for that purpose.

It's not about the stupid unicorn video, but about everyone else who wants to parody or reference something in their work.

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a_millenial t1_j5y9nhv wrote

True. I guess for me what makes a difference is Darth Vader and Joker are both purely fictional characters. It would be like me getting mad at people who like GTA and saying they're promoting drug dealing.

But Squid Game is too close to reality for me to comfortably engage with or make light of.

It's like Nosedive (I don't know if you watch Black Mirror.) If someone copy pasted the housing system in real life just cause they liked the pastel aesthetic. I'd be like... you missed the whole point of what the creators were trying to convey. Yeah, pastels are cute, but wtf dude.

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