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Oh no, some of those feel like the wrong thing was cue'd up for some reason. But accidentally playing a fake song from Borat is brutal.
There's video of that one as well. The athlete holds it together well.
Testing: Do Lemmy/Mbin support directly embedding videos?
I think the embedding depends on the client/UI. I'm on desktop using Alexandrite and there is no embed, but I think mobile clients and apps tend to handle this better.
Yeah, I'm on mobile firefox and it is embedded perfectly.
Edit: Also works perfectly on firefox desktop.
Voyager embeds it perfectly as well.
For me, Voyager is failing to load the embed. Strange.
On my end (also voyager) it loads the embed but there’s no audio toggle for it so it’s just the muted video
I think Voyager (the progressive web app) does not specify whether controls should be shown so the underlying browser uses its defaults. Firefox on desktop shows controls while neither Firefox nor Chrome on mobile do.
Same here. It’s just a silent video with no way to unmute.
Does it support it? It do!
The China/Chile ones make sense too.
I just want to say thank you for starting with the actual link to the article in addition to fun screenshots. So many people get that wrong, but you did good.
Thanks. I always try to do both, because I know most won't want to click off site and are happy to just chuckle at a screenshot, but a lot of people will always want the link.
Can you at least remove the
m.from the link? If you're on mobile, it will automatically redirect to the mobile site. But if you're on desktop and them.is still there, you have to manually remove it, and that's really annoying because the mobile site is missing some important desktop features.Done!
Commenting to say how again was Borat so wildly accepted but if it was the other way around it’s racism
Wdym? Please explain.
I live in a similar shitty post soviet country, the kazakh scenes were filmed in romania, and noone finds it offensive here, even Kazakhstan uses the slogan "very nice" nowadays.
It's an interesting case. Most of the movie is Cohen doing patently ridiculous things to an audience who just go "Welp, foreigners sure are weird." The joke is mostly on the people who are willing to believe that Borat is an accurate representation of what Kazakh people are like.
Yeah, as always with these things, it depends on which party is being made fun of. Like In Tropic Thunder, RDJ's black face doesn't make fun of black people, but of Hollywood actors who do ridiculous things for the sake of method acting, so it doesn't become a racist joke.
Exactly, the joke they are making is simply not racist in nature. At the same time, the idea that using blackface to make a joke about entrenched Hollywood racism trivializes the harm of using blackface isn't unreasonable. It's a layered issue, people can land in different places. Ultimately though, the controversy over Tropic Thunder, then and now, being so minimal does indicate that for most viewers, the joke justified itself.
Borat is explicitly racist, on purpose. It’s just that he is mocking the racists, not the race he is portraying.
A lot of people miss the jokes that are making bigots look like morons so we can laugh at them and think it means the show was being bigoted.
Usually in this kind of comedies fictional countries are used, so noone could be offended. It wouldn't work here, an interviewee could notice that, so they had to choose one, but anything east of the iron curtain could have worked the same way.
The stereotypes he parodises, all based on some actual things, like the running of the jew is based on Krampus and other old messed up racist fesivities. When he shits on the street it's joke about how the squat toilet (we call it balkan toilet) is still very common in the region
It's similar when disney made the Coco cartoon, some american sjws said it would be offensive to mexicans, but in realitythey loved it there.
people were upset that rugrats had very jewish great grandparents on the show
totally missing the fact that the creators based them off their own great grandparents
The ending to Coco made me tear up. There, I said it!
Honestly to avoid another Borat incident they should just make Livin' La Vida Loca the national anthem
That Borat mix up was nothing more than a dick move though.