Comment on Japan appears to be confused about Christmas

Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thanks for the background! For those who don’t want to click:

  This claim is mostly false. The photograph was actually part of an artwork by Yoshio Itagaki in 2005, which in itself is a commentary satirizing the urban legend of a Japanese department store misinterpreting Christmas. The photograph has been used out of context and spread alongside the claim it aimed to critique.

  Basically a Japanese artist creating satire I guess?

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wonder how many western artists create satire and then a random country like Chile is like, “Oh my god Americans do that?”

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it’s really good satire if a lot of people can’t tell it’s satire.

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  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The same idea is part of the background of this live-action stop motion (yes really) movie.

    web.archive.org/web/…/features.htm

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