matcha originated in China about 1200 years ago, açaí has been consumed by Indigenous communities in the Amazon for centuries, and Dubai chocolate was invented by combining chocolate with knafeh, an 1100 year old SWANA snack.

western (usually white but seemingly not in this case) people love to call nonwhite foods suddenly becoming popular in western mainstream culture "industry plants" as if they haven't always existed.

Now that most of the seriousness and depth have been stripped from the show, there's nothing to make fun of. *The show is already making fun of itself*, but the jokes just aren't landing.

For example, I found this sketch of a comic I made before TVL aired, but now that it has I see no reason to finish it. I just don't find the comic funny anymore.

It's Lestat and Spike discussing their mothers. If you haven't seen Buffy, Spike also turns his mother, who then reveals she's always hated him before trying to fuck him, which makes Spike horrified and he stakes her.

Now, based on the books, Lestat's relationship with his Gabe is never that explicit. The incestual themes are there, but subtle. My joke here works within that *implication* of an incestious relationship. Part of the punchline is the *unexpected* in Lestat not understanding that incestious relationships are bad and being quite blasé about it.

However. With this season it's no longer a joke. It's just the show. The show took the fandom jokes and made them canon. And this kills both the jokes, and the show.