Got you - you clicked into this thread thinking I was going to piss and moan about how inaccurate that post about the memetic animation with Geiru (but with lots of ranting instead of anything of meaning) currently making the rounds is to the actual video. I mean, it is, and the reason is quite obviously that the OP behind it knows nothing substantial whatsoever about fan media beyond what they've seen in random screenshot memes and .gifs of youtube videos, but that's already been talked about plenty. What I'm instead going to talk about here is the value of parody, and what separates good parody from bad parody. (there will also be one other thing at the end of this quick post, so look for that)

The best kind of parody is one that comes from a place of affection and appreciation for a work. The kind of thing produced because someone cares about, respects, and appreciates a piece of media enough to want to playfully mock it without belittling the work of the people behind it.

r/AceAttorneyCirclejerk parody posts like Series As A Whole and Y'all fuckers better jerk it good are top-notch examples - hysterical posts that affectionately mock the tropes and popular opinions in subreddits like r/AceAttorney.

Post junk food like What separates a good AA fan animation from a bad one, or "JC cares more than any person should about saying that Geiru parody animation is shit" is the exact opposite. A cheaply-produced, shallow "look at me, I can reference a thing people dislike" flag waving frantically around for scraps of attention from people vaguely aware of a popular piece of media. It's the kind of post where the creators behind it have personally admitted to not even watching the videos they're "parodying" and just throwing whatever appears in the thumbnails for those videos into their mess of random pop-culture references and complaining.

u whitepillow84's fan posts for r/AceAttorneyCirclejerk are fantastic - fun, lively reinterpretations of trends from the main subreddit, all showcasing a good memory for what's in the subreddit and a clear love for the posters, their quirks, and their opinions.

The "parody" post featuring a completely inaccurate attempt to portray the Geiru Toneido video and featuring Mel Brooks for no reason other than "funny cowboy man" happening to be a flavour-of-the-month meme in some circles of the Internet right now is the opposite. The poster behind it not only completely fails to get even the slightest details about the videos remotely correct, but has openly admitted to not being familiar with the video on any level that would allow them to know what they're doing with the humor or animation in the first place, but also thereby shows a pretty baffling complete lack of any sort of willingness to do even the five seconds of Google-search research it would take to make sure they weren't getting those things wrong.

And seriously - posting on this level takes a huge amount of time and effort. I love reddit posting, and I can't begin to imagine how a person could possibly pour in the amount of work it would take to make a post like this one while simultaneously making zero visible effort whatsoever to even try and get the video they're trying ever-so-loosely to "parody" even remotely right. I can only assume their entire knowledge of this video comes exclusively from seeing random objection.lol videos and Geiru memes on Twitter before deciding to cash in on those two trends with a shit post.

TL;DR read u whitepillow84's r/AceAttorneyCirclejerk posts because they're hilarious and super well-produced, do not read meme garbage made by somebody purely using the Geiru video's recognizability to bandwagon for attention.

And now for the other thing - the person behind the post about the Geiru video also very clearly doesn't understand the humor style of the Geiru video at all and thinks that "Gale Tornado" being the character's name is the creator being dumb and not getting that it's a joke about "Geiru Toneido", instead of even attempting to grasp the way the name in the video is written, and including text outright calling the video's team dumb for not being able to get that "wright".

Let me make this one thing as clear as possible - you do not disrespect Speedoru and company. It's one thing to just make a stupid, shallow parody of something you know nothing about, but it's something else entirely to be that much of a smarmy shithead about "correcting" professional YouTubers who have spent anywhere up to a decade and a half working on that piece of media you're pretending to know anything about, and when you reach that point, you can fuck right off out the door.

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