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'''Songun Blog''' is a [[Parody]] of North Korean propaganda, spanning a [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/ blog] and a [http://www.youtube.com/user/Songunblog YouTube video channel]. The writings and videos proclaim the greatness and glory of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il with a bizarre combination of [[Engrish]] and [[Purple Prose]] that must be seen to be believed. |
'''Songun Blog''' is a [[Parody]] of North Korean propaganda, spanning a [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/ blog] and a [http://www.youtube.com/user/Songunblog YouTube video channel]. The writings and videos proclaim the greatness and glory of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il with a bizarre combination of [[Engrish]] and [[Purple Prose]] that must be seen to be believed. |
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=== ''Songun Blog'' provides examples of: === |
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* [[Black Comedy]] |
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* [[Engrish]] and [[Purple Prose]], as mentioned above. |
* [[Engrish]] and [[Purple Prose]], as mentioned above. |
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* [[Orwellian Editor]] : On his-her-its [[YouTube]] channel, he-she-it has made it so any comments not fulsome and sycopanthic about anything in the DPRK are automatically deleted and has released a video on [[YouTube]] urging other pro-DPRK youtubers to do so... [[Comically Missing the Point|in the interests of free speech]]... Ummm... whatever? |
* [[Orwellian Editor]] : On his-her-its [[YouTube]] channel, he-she-it has made it so any comments not fulsome and sycopanthic about anything in the DPRK are automatically deleted and has released a video on [[YouTube]] urging other pro-DPRK youtubers to do so... [[Comically Missing the Point|in the interests of free speech]]... Ummm... whatever? |
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* [[Propaganda Machine]]: what they consider all anti-DPRK material to be. |
* [[Propaganda Machine]]: what they consider all anti-DPRK material to be. |
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Songun is the name for the DPRK "military-first" policy. |
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* [[Stealth Parody]]: "This is too well done to be parody," as one reviewer puts it. Its parodic nature is proven pretty much conclusively by [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/bad-jews-good-jews.html a blog post] accusing an Israeli soldier of "slap[ping] a cat hard," and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bTRSjw7Wf4 video] accusing an American soldier of "Stealing schoolgirls' ham sandwich for sale in 'Israel.'" Unfortunately, not everyone seems to have gotten the joke. |
* [[Stealth Parody]]: "This is too well done to be parody," as one reviewer puts it. Its parodic nature is proven pretty much conclusively by [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/bad-jews-good-jews.html a blog post] accusing an Israeli soldier of "slap[ping] a cat hard," and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bTRSjw7Wf4 video] accusing an American soldier of "Stealing schoolgirls' ham sandwich for sale in 'Israel.'" Unfortunately, not everyone seems to have gotten the joke. |
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* [[Strawman Political]]: "the criminal Bush clique of nefariously noxious nazi neocon warmongering hawkish capitalists and their zionist puppet masters," and that's just the beginning... |
* [[Strawman Political]]: "the criminal Bush clique of nefariously noxious nazi neocon warmongering hawkish capitalists and their zionist puppet masters," and that's just the beginning... |
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** Which is either [[Hypocritical Humor]] or [[Comically Missing the Point]] or [[Did Not Do the Research]], depending on whether he-she-it is actually in earnest on this... |
** Which is either [[Hypocritical Humor]] or [[Comically Missing the Point]] or [[Did Not Do the Research]], depending on whether he-she-it is actually in earnest on this... |
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Latest revision as of 23:59, 3 March 2016
"Single-mindedly united as one under the Banner of Songun held aloft by the Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il, brilliant statesman, political genius, and invincible military commander" |
Songun Blog is a Parody of North Korean propaganda, spanning a blog and a YouTube video channel. The writings and videos proclaim the greatness and glory of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il with a bizarre combination of Engrish and Purple Prose that must be seen to be believed.
The Youtube channel no longer exists, and the blog has not been updated in a while.
Tropes used in Songun Blog include:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking It claims America is "filled with unemployment, foreclosures, crime, drugs, prostitution, murder and jaywalking."
- Black Comedy
- Engrish and Purple Prose, as mentioned above.
- Government Conspiracy: Apparently, the US government is behind not only 9/11, but Hurricane Katrina as well.
- Ideological Screed
- Orwellian Editor : On his-her-its YouTube channel, he-she-it has made it so any comments not fulsome and sycopanthic about anything in the DPRK are automatically deleted and has released a video on YouTube urging other pro-DPRK youtubers to do so... in the interests of free speech... Ummm... whatever?
- Propaganda Machine: what they consider all anti-DPRK material to be.
- Shout-Out: Songun is the name for the DPRK "military-first" policy.
- Stealth Parody: "This is too well done to be parody," as one reviewer puts it. Its parodic nature is proven pretty much conclusively by a blog post accusing an Israeli soldier of "slap[ping] a cat hard," and a video accusing an American soldier of "Stealing schoolgirls' ham sandwich for sale in 'Israel.'" Unfortunately, not everyone seems to have gotten the joke.
- Strawman Political: "the criminal Bush clique of nefariously noxious nazi neocon warmongering hawkish capitalists and their zionist puppet masters," and that's just the beginning...
- Which is either Hypocritical Humor or Comically Missing the Point or Did Not Do the Research, depending on whether he-she-it is actually in earnest on this...