A fellow student of mine brought up the topic in class of a blog post found on cracked.com. The website is known for publishing humorous material, but he found this particular article, Dealing With Bullies You Learned in Movies, a little too real for his tastes. The author delves into personal experiences with bullying and even bullying that his child received.
While I don't doubt that the article may seem a bit on the black humor side, I feel like this was supposed to be a satire. I have read articles on cracked.com before, and nearly every one of them are funny because they are all drenched in sarcasm. I personally love this style of humor, so I enjoy most of the blogs I read on there. Although I do feel that this particular piece was darker than the rest (it hit on a way more personal level for the author), knowing that the author was more than likely aiming for a sarcastic approach to this scenario would make me more interested in reading more of his work to see if anything else he has written parallels this.
Regardless of his approach, I commend him on going on a different route with this blog, but I can definitely see where Travis is coming from. If I want to laugh, give me something obvious to laugh at an don't crowd that with a sad story. I feel as if he was trying to add a bit of realness to this story but it may have not worked in his favor. Still, he received an emotion out of one of his readers, and when it comes to leaving an impact he did just that.
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