Satiregram

November 1, 2014 4:37 AM

Satiregram, you may never post again on social media.
posted by HuronBob (31 comments total)

A witty comment indicating approval
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 5:16 AM on November 1, 2014 [7 favorites]

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posted by ardgedee at 5:47 AM on November 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Saw this done excellently as "text only instagram" or similar on Twitter. Without being too much of a grinch, this feels a touch heavy handed? Though "it's a cat." did raise a smile.
posted by ominous_paws at 5:56 AM on November 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Cliché as satire has itself become a cliché. Irony?
posted by nanojath at 6:24 AM on November 1, 2014 [5 favorites]

I joined Istagram today (late on the bandwagon and all that). This was needed.
Also can be used when out of ideas.
posted by thegirlwiththehat at 7:04 AM on November 1, 2014

I would rather be friends with people who post pictures of cats and the clothes they like to wear than people who think it's cool to mock them for their small pleasures.
posted by alasdair at 7:08 AM on November 1, 2014 [16 favorites]

alasdair: "I would rather be friends with people who post pictures of cats and the clothes they like to wear than people who think it's cool to mock them for their small pleasures."

Yeah, the cat-and-clothes-posting people are basically self-mocking.
posted by signal at 7:29 AM on November 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Seems to me more like it's mocking the 'I clicked a button and applied a filter I AM SO ART' thing.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 7:30 AM on November 1, 2014

there's a Twitter account that's some news intern on the west coast who discovered a 1940s typewriter in a storage closet that types out tweets and photographs them that pretty much perfectly hits my "ironic satire of social media " funnybone in all the right places, sadly I am too lazy to get off the couch and go in the other room to search for the link on my laptop ...
posted by lonefrontranger at 7:53 AM on November 1, 2014

Metafilter: a germane quote from the linked page.
posted by Itaxpica at 7:55 AM on November 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

"Insert Joke Here!"
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 8:04 AM on November 1, 2014

Somebody posted some car accident photos to a local "scanner" thread a few weeks ago. They were obvious crappy cell-phone pics with bad lighting and it's likely the shutterbug was driving while taking them. Somebody else mocked them for using an Instagram filter to intentionally make them look like crappy cell phone pics.
posted by dhartung at 9:20 AM on November 1, 2014

Metafilter: I AM SO ART.
posted by Alterscape at 9:22 AM on November 1, 2014 [3 favorites]

Comment recalling that this kind of thing has been done to death and inviting you kids to get off our lawn.
posted by flabdablet at 10:12 AM on November 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Overtly earnest comment inviting the poster to think about the gender politics behind this socalled satire and why it always is aimed at teenage girls.
posted by MartinWisse at 10:56 AM on November 1, 2014 [6 favorites]

Cliché as satire has itself become a cliché. Irony?
Just the inevitable path of all clichés. My practice is to avoid clichés like the plague. Or this year, like ebola.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:55 PM on November 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Overtly earnest comment inviting the poster to think about the gender politics behind this socalled satire and why it always is aimed at teenage girls.

Cf "basic bitch" right down to the mockery of Pumpkin Spice Latte.
posted by immlass at 3:15 PM on November 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

> Overtly earnest comment inviting the poster to think about the gender politics behind this so called satire and why it always is aimed at teenage girls.

He just scanned instagram accounts of people he didn't like and posted the captions he made.
posted by psycho-alchemy at 3:35 PM on November 1, 2014

Yeah my first thought was "is this supposed to be a sequel to that basic bitch post?"
posted by valrus at 4:40 PM on November 1, 2014

Also, being so stompingly obvious as to call it "satiregram" had me initially convinced that this would be one layer further on, mocking the sort of sites that make rather simple fun of obvious tropes (often, as noted, I'm tellingly gendered ways etc).

Maybe it's the Brit in me but loudly announcing WE'RE DOING SOME SATIRE NOW GUYS just seems not the way to go about it at all.
posted by ominous_paws at 1:30 AM on November 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

holy shit am i completely fucking tired of pumpkin spice jokes.

i swear it's 1000x worse this year than any previous years.
posted by emptythought at 1:11 AM on November 2, 2014

And I have just discovered pumpkin spice jokes.

And realised there was no Pumpkin Spice, because she was Ginger.

So confused.
posted by Mezentian at 2:02 AM on November 2, 2014

Griping about pumpkin spice jokes is misdirected at best and victim blaming at worst: please direct your ire at the 1000x more pumpkin spice stuff we have had to suffer
posted by ominous_paws at 2:16 AM on November 2, 2014

I would rather be friends with people who post pictures of cats and the clothes they like to wear than people who think it's cool to mock them for their small pleasures.

I must disagree. Cats do not like to wear clothes.
posted by mcstayinskool at 6:10 AM on November 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

the 1000x more pumpkin spice stuff we have had to suffer

What exactly are people suffering? I really want to know, because it seems to me like what people are suffering is "waaaaah things characterized as female are being catered to!!!". I don't drink coffee so pumpkin spice lattes (and really pumpkin spice anything) doesn't impinge on me enough to make a difference. What is it about women visibly enjoying something marketed to them that makes other people (male people?) suffer?
posted by immlass at 7:29 AM on November 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

Wait... pumpkin spice is a gendered thing?
Shit just got more complicated.
posted by Mezentian at 7:30 AM on November 2, 2014

My wife just today made a PSL joke--the first one I've ever heard--because she tried one for the first time and thought it was "meh." I think there are too many things in our faces to overthink now. It's too damn confusing all the time.
posted by saulgoodman at 6:00 PM on November 2, 2014

Immlass - had no idea that pumpkin spice was a gendered thing, hadn't perceived as such (last major thing I've seen was pumpkin beer, which didn't seem to be aiming super femme?). Am in UK, so marketing strategies etc. may vary here, I guess...
posted by ominous_paws at 12:46 AM on November 3, 2014

ahhh, ok, ominous_paws, because here in the US it's all about Starbucks and girls liking their coffee flavored sugar drink with "pumpkin spices". I saw some pumpkin/pumpkin spice brews at the (US) craft beer fest I went to a couple of weeks ago that weren't particularly girly/marketed to women. But the coffee thing is so clearly gendered and the whole "I am so superior to boring women and their pumpkin spice lattes" as alluded to in several FPP links (including one of the Satiregram photos) recently is chapping my hide. Sorry about that.
posted by immlass at 8:55 AM on November 3, 2014

No worries at all! There's definitely a bit of a Lol Girly Things vibe to that site as a whole, I've certainly got an idea of where you're coming from.
posted by ominous_paws at 11:41 AM on November 3, 2014

I just realized the other day that something I'm really enjoying about Instagram is following acquaintances whom I always considered ridiculously, intimidatingly cool and discovering that they're also just normal people with cats and bad family photos and shit.
posted by naoko at 11:52 AM on November 3, 2014