Re:Unprofessionalism
by coldtea on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @12:16AM
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>just says you wanted to make a joke but weren't creative enough to think of one.
Well, the same can be said for 90% of what passes for situation comedy. Hardly appropriate to pinpoint this to an app company.
P.S Also, the originality of the joke is not in using Nickelback, but in having a "ban this one artist" button in the first place.
The artist being Nickelback is secondary, it could be Bieber or Cyrus etc.
That said, it was important, for the mechanics of the joke, that the artist was someone important and almost universaly despised, else it would be lost in the majority of users (where's the fun in "don't play King Crimson"?).
Well, the same can be said for 90% of what passes for situation comedy. Hardly appropriate to pinpoint this to an app company.
P.S Also, the originality of the joke is not in using Nickelback, but in having a "ban this one artist" button in the first place. The artist being Nickelback is secondary, it could be Bieber or Cyrus etc.
That said, it was important, for the mechanics of the joke, that the artist was someone important and almost universaly despised, else it would be lost in the majority of users (where's the fun in "don't play King Crimson"?).