Manufactured "Israeli-Palestinian" boy band is in really poor taste

Originally published at: Manufactured "Israeli-Palestinian" boy band is in really poor taste - Boing Boing

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Also, “formal boy band training?” That is another thing that should not be a thing within a story of something that should not be a thing. It’s like a matryoshka of things that should not exist.

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Israel is normally quite good at international hits.

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I need a :grimacing: reaction to go with how amazingly dark this is.

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I’m imagining some secretive underground training facility along the lines of the shadowy organizations in Zoolander.

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Or a facility like this.

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There was a Gravity Falls episode featuring just that (in which Mabel learns the dark secret of where Boy Bands come from).

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I’ve heard a lot of good things about Gravity Falls. Now I HAVE to check it out.

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An antidote to this.

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Sure, it’s all “unity” until they start dancing, at which point the Arab members will be arrested for celebrating October 7th.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/10/08/israeli-arab-teacher-arrested-for-celebrating-oct-7-anniversary/

Police detained a 41-year-old woman from Tamra, in the Lower Galilee, for posting a TikTok video showing her dancing, although it was unclear if she was in fact referring to the atrocities, since it was originally uploaded a year earlier before the war broke out.

“Unclear”

Uh, in South Korea, boy/girl band training is literally a whole, enormous friggin’ industry. You better believe the US has its own version, even if smaller. A shadowy organization would be a substantially less creepy than the actual thing.

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You should; though I loathe Disney as a company, Gravity Falls is one of the better IP’s they acquired.

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In the group’s defense, all boy bands are in really poor taste.

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