🇦🇺 Australia 8h ago · Jesse Hassenger

South Park takes on looksmaxxing, aura-farming and influencer nonsense with grotesque glee

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South Park takes on looksmaxxing, aura-farming and influencer nonsense with grotesque glee
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In the third episode of the latest season, the boys head into Sephora and eventually the Backrooms in a story that makes fun of app-mutated self-careTrey Parker and Matt Stone have always been pretty upfront about how South Park, like all animated sitcoms from the past 35 years, lives in the shadow of The Simpsons. There are plenty of ways that The Simpsons, even in its more uneven recent seasons, still outshines South Park: greater depth of ensemble, stronger emotional moments, even in the shee

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