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[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Man, I haven't had a MAD subscription in ages. I didn't realize they were still in print. Lol

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't think this is real. If you search up the issue number you'll see the real version. It's also from 1974.

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

So did someone make this with AI 🤔

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

No, someone took an existing painting and modified it with copy/paste to show two middle fingers. Which is also ironic, given the message they're trying to send.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They're republishing old editions with new covers. Dunno if this is one of those

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Its not real.

originally published

MAD #166, Apr 1974

lol yeah, otherwise MAD was WAAAAY ahead of its time 😂

EDIT: huh, does lemmy not support nested quotes or am I just dumb

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 weeks ago

That part isn't on the original cover. Is this a real foldout from a recent MAD issue that is an updated version of the 1974 cover?

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can see the different levels of quote, but there's also spaces between them. Too many line breaks maybe?

Your reader might not support nested quotes though.

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yea I wondered that after I posted my comment but I wondered if it was a joke issue or something. A lot of the issues I had growing up had a front cover and a back one that would work if you flipped it the right way that was an alternative or a joke cover.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm the original doesn't have that bit in the bottom right about the original concept. Is this a real MAD foldout based on an old cover but updated for the current hot topic?

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

What is this from? Did you print this? Why would you leave the og price and date tho? And no context? C’mon now this is an interesting story. But also, not something actually made by MAD Magazine… unless you work there? For those who don’t know what this is referencing:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/mad_magazine_gives_america_the_finger

And as far as I can tell OPs image is not an actual MAD cover.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

MAID magazine

[-] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I guess? But, how do you think the text part of text-to-image creation works?

AI is more like 1 middle finger + a partial middle finger, cuz its that sloppy

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't have much respect for MAD magazine to start with, always seemed to be generic boomer humour from what I've seen.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

At one point that generic boomer humor was new and cutting edge. It's an old magazine with their heyday in the 70's

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't like to call it boomer humor. That shit was funny in the 90s. For better or worse, it wasn't the jokes that changed, it was our reaction to it.

Thinking specifically of things like "Miss Swan", "The ambiguously gay duo", and "Pat". Although I think only one of those was MAD. Still, we (as in the cisfolk, at least) thought it was funny enough at the time for it to keep getting aired.

It's boomer humor now because our sense of humor matured and adapted...and theirs didn't.

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