• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    16 days ago

    I mean I was about her, she seems to believe in her own grift which has allowed her to defraud people for years.

    Anyway, the story isn’t the point. It’s how it’s made so entertaining that irks me. Like people are vibrating with excitement over it. It’s… Weird.

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      16 days ago

      she seems to believe in her own grift

      She’s a manipulative psychopath. She had children to try and get a more lenient sentence.

      But, Elon Musk has done worse and no one seems to care.

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 days ago

      Anyway, the story isn’t the point. It’s how it’s made so entertaining that irks me.

      The cringe humor is completely intertwined with her methods of deception, though. The exact same way that neurotypicals will often self censor so as to not be rude or make things awkward turns into a vulnerability, a vector for her style of ultra-sincere deception.

      So introducing a neurodivergent comedian who doesn’t have that self-censorship instinct turns the awkwardness on itself and shows us something genuinely new about the subject. And it’s funny in the same way that the most cringeworthy comedy is funny, but that still serves an important non-comedic purpose in this film.