randal’s playhouse

compare the clear, one dimensional ":)" of the cameraman to the tragicomic rictus of the toilet. we are told -- or rather, we infer, given the experimental nature of the narrative -- that the cameramen are the last bastion and defender of humanity -- saved from the toilet plague by institutions of technological superiority and hygieHold o

Hold on a bird just flew into my house

the big dichotomy is also reinforced by the alliance's theme song, "everybody wants to rule the world" by tears for fears, specifically the excerpted lines from the chorus: "acting on your best behavior/turn your back on mother nature". contrast that to the toilet's theme, which is a mashup of a remix as opposed to the tears for fears original presented without alteration: the present versus the past, the numerous versus the singular, the palimpsest versus the xeroxed nostalgia objectoh no

at face value, the series' seemingly uncritical concessions to Futurism, and the general narrative of a militant technocracy, under constant seige, preserving the body politic from a literally diseased population, must be acknowledged and addressed: presented without subtlety or nuance, this construction is, Um, problematic. need i say more. but i believe that DaFuqBoom is not only aware of the undertones, but in fact, is working to ow subvert them, and to implicate the viewer in our surrender to the machine and our revulsion to the base, the "cringe", the corporeal, the coprological -- perhaps, even, the copro-logical as well.

furthermore there's also a level of medium awareness, too, and a moment of subversion in the reveal that "POV cameraman" is, in fact, a distinct character, disrupting and ow complicating the construction of viewer-as-cameraman. we've been had. even the cameramen's facial expressions are mediated, rendered as, not even emojis or bitmojis or even clip art, but text emoticons -- the well known shorthand fashioned from the tools of the keyboard, intended to compensate for the impersonal tonelessness of the medium, and yet introducing new ambiguities between irony and sincerity -- so that, even as they are "humanized" to us, the viewer, we are held at a distance, forced to recognize that what we are watching is media. What else have we ow merely assumed is true of the toilets, their purpose, and their motives, based on our unconscious positioning as viewers?

my pinkie cooper dolls in their homemade outfits!

(Wan) kah boo boo-dah koo-doh

(Too) kah boo boo-dah koo-doh

(Tee) kah boo boo-dah koo-doh

(For) KAH BOO BOO-DAH KOO-DOH

(Wan) doo oh-tah-toh-toh tah

(Too) doo oh-tah-toh-toh tah

(Tee) doo oh-tah-toh-toh tah

NEE-WAYYYYYYY

BOO TEE BYE-BYE NAH-BAH WAH

BOO TEE BYE-BYE NAH-BAH WAH

BOO TEE BYE-BYE NAH-BAH WAHHHHHHH

/srs - sexual reassignment surgery

/pos - piece of shit

/neg - negative rizz

/j - jerma

/hj - half jerma

/lh - low hp