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      "speaker": "Homer Simpson-like voice",
      "text": "There is a notable absence of The Simpsons content for short-form brain rot fodder."
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      "text": "Quoting the show and remixing stills were a big part of millennial memes."
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      "text": "Not so for Gen Z and Alpha."
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      "text": "It's still around in some remixes, but these are less popular."
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      "text": "needs a substrate that can be easily repurposed and puppeteered into the targeted vibe without too much friction from the uncanniness."
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      "speaker": "Peter Griffin Voice",
      "text": "Family Guy fits these requirements well. It's referential, absurdist non-sequiturs are self-contained, and you don't need to see what happened before to enjoy them, which helps the show be endlessly reposted in short-clip compilations."
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      "text": "Peter Griffin can say and do anything because the show itself is constantly decontextualizing itself for throwaway gags."
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      "text": "The humor is more kinetic and fast-paced, with liberal use of violence."
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      "text": "Homer Simpson has an inner life, or rather he had one before that was flattened away."
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      "text": "That's what they call Flanderization. In any case, this creates some fri-"
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      "text": "when he's too far from the baseline. The show's"
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      "text": "itself in stages within each scene, or even along the entire episode."
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      "text": "It's harder to extract a 15-second clip. The old"
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      "text": "copypasta about Sneed's Feed & Seed,"
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      "text": "you know the one that goes, \"The sign is a subtle joke,\""
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      "text": "slower, wordier humor that works better on image boards and forums than it does on video."
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      "text": "To sum everything up:"
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      "text": "one, being clipped and endlessly reposted helped Family Guy reach younger audiences who are native to short-form platforms."
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