If you're an artist, it's quite tempting to insert current affairs into whatever you're making, because it gets you a lot of attention in the immediate. However, it means your art will age like unpasteurised milk.
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For example, back during the election of '12 I saved a bunch of political cartoons which i found funny at the time. Looking back it's a bunch of fucking cringe. Likewise, I recall laughing my ass off at Tina Fey's Palin impressions. Now I'm just left stonefaced.pic.twitter.com/OkbY45R1E3
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If you want immediate viral success, by all means try to ride that news cycle. If you want your work to have staying power beyond next week, best to avoid current events and politics.
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Replying to @Banned_Ali
I think it's possible to do current affairs but you have to be relatively smart about it. I've seen it done right but it's incredibly rare - and generally the author has to use that sparingly
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I think it's possible if and only if the author takes that specific event and uses it to illustrate a general principle. And even then, I'd say a transformative element is important in order for the work to be interpreted as such.
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EG: Animal Farm wouldn't have been anywhere near as good if that history/critique of the Soviet Union hadn't been transformed into a fable with farm animals. By making it less specific and concrete the story gains universal applicability.
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