vrabia

Pseudonymous Tumblr user · wrote the line on 27 January 2016

vrabia is a pseudonymous Tumblr user. On 27 January 2016 they added a few hashtags to a reblogged post about satire, recalling “that thing terry pratchett said.” Once those tags went viral as a Pratchett quotation, vrabia publicly took responsibility for the wording and said it was their paraphrase, not Pratchett’s words.

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“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying”

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