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An Open Letter To "South Park"

Fun fact: this is not to be considered fan mail

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Dear South Park,

I'm just going to jump right into it - your show disgusts me. You mock certain matters that really aren't a joke. I mean, jabs at the 2016 presidential election are fine, because just about everyone is laughing at that. But the recent trend of your episodes seem to be focusing on equating quitting Twitter and other social media sites to committing suicide, and I fail to see the humor in that.

I had the unfortunate "pleasure" of watching two new episodes last night (in my defense, there's nothing good on before The Daily Show with the great Trevor Noah), and they continued the trend of internet trolls forcing people to quit all social media. This time, however, the trolls caused the show's portrayal of Danish Olympic gold medalist, Freja Ollegard, to commit actual suicide rather than just quit social media. That occurrence got a whopping 60 seconds of screen time before the trolls decided Denmark's retaliation was unjust and that they needed to defend their "way of life." And then suddenly everything was back to questioning what could possibly drive someone like Cartman to quit social media. Since that's obviously just as, if not much more, tragic than a suicide.

I think the worst part of it all is the astounding amount of positive reviews over the episodes. One review even compliments the episode containing Freja Ollegard's death, saying, "While I think the laughs have gotten lighter, the storytelling has never been better." Like, I'm sorry suicide wasn't funny enough for you? (Probably because at least some part of you realized it's not funny at all).

That's just my two cents though. Who knows? Maybe y'all can make a character based on me in an attempt to joke about my sensitivity to the issues. Which would be cool, because then I could tell all my friends I have my own television character. The only downside would be that, you know, my debut as a cartoon character would be on South Park.

Not-so-sincerely,

Someone who'd rather be forced to meet Trump than watch your show

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