Ultimately none of this even matters, tbh. We're talking about a show that airs on Friday night at 12:15 on Adult Swim. A show that gets less than a million viewers every week. It's not as if this is some sort of underground movement that is sweeping the nation. It's a 6-episode series that airs on Adult Swim...at midnight. What's funny to me is the vitrolic reaction this is all recieveing. It seems like MDE fans fall in two distinct camps. On one side you have the hardcore fans who take everything MDE do as what it's supposed to be, bad comedy. On the other side, you have all the individuals who prefer their comedy to be of the same monotonous routine showcasing an hightened consciousness and "globalist" perspective. But somewhere in the between, it's like we forgot that comedy, or any art for that matter, should constantly be challenging our beliefs. We need to be shocked and appalled because its shows us exactly where the line between acceptable and unaccetable opinions exists....and I'm just now realizing that's what's been hapening for the last couple of pages. So regardless of the actual content in the show itself, this show has engaged us on a discursive level that other shows only dreamed of reaching.
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Going back to the article though, if you sit down and actually analyze the article (you can see how bad this is from a journalistic perspective)
The article's title calls out the fact that an "alt-right show" is on a Time Warner Network. But the article itself states: "Though none of the three episodes that have aired so far have touched on politics or the alt-right, they have hardly been in good taste."
The body of the article directly contradicts the headline of the article. But it doesn't matter because the vast majority of people don't read the body of the article. There are only two purposes to an article like this.
Number one...to give a journalist something "controversial" to talk about for the next couple of days and provide hits to his buzzfeed article / tweets (I bet in a couple of days, we'll see an article about the abuse this reporter recieved from MDE's twitter fans)
Number two...to give Buzzfeed's audience a reason to read their article and form a new crusade against a corporation. (since it's easier to get a show off the air then it is to actually tackle the injustices and sterotypes that exist both in the show and in reality)
All this is is new media fighting old media. New media is attempting to push a narrative that Time Warner, old media, (notice they didn't mention Cartoon Network [which would have enraged more people]) is pushing outdated sterotypes and that it is the new media's job to keep the old media in line with current political standards.
Sam Hyde and MDE are merely tiny pawns on a much bigger chess board. This has gone past the notion of a TV show and now we're talking about political discouse and various -isms. Now all of this is a totally valid discussion that needs to be engaged but it still doesn't change the fact that the article itself completly missed its original point.
It was supposed to show its audience how "alt-right" this new TV show is but it doesn't. The reporter knew this going into the story and instead highlighted a whole bunch of things unrelated to the show in an attempt to smear the "brand of MDE".
