Little Rock, AR — Claiming that taking a laissez-faire approach would be beneficial for the entire comedy community, local conservative comedian Luke Francis reassured his fellow content creators that all of the top meme page followers would eventually trickle down to them.
“All you hear is hate towards the big and successful meme pages on Facebook and Instagram, but what people don’t understand is that these accounts are creating comedy fans that the rest of us will be able to enjoy,” said Francis, adding that despite their unethical and predatory practices, meme pages such as “FuckJerry” were ultimately good for comedy. “If we work just as hard, we can be like them some day.”
According to the comics within his circle, Francis frequently spiels about how supply-side follower growth is the key to comedy success while ignoring the growing inequality gap between small-time comedy writers and big meme pages.
“He pretty much brings this stuff up whenever he can,” complained comedian Terrell Whitters. “I was just complaining about how someone needs to do something about all these meme pages stealing our content, and he immediately interjected about how regulating these pages would be the biggest disaster for comedy and that the invisible hand of the free market will solve our issues.”
Throughout the night, Francis continued to ramble on about how every person in comedy should be thankful that pages such as “The Fat Jew” exist while the rest of the comedians were slowly making their way out of the bar.
“I think people are just jealous and that’s why they lash out,” claimed Francis. “And there are so many misconceptions about how meme pages operate. For example, they don’t steal content, they work extremely hard to curate your ideas and make them presentable to their audience. That’s why they deserve the big sponsored advertising money. We should just be thankful that the big meme players are helping the rest of us get more followers, even if they have to be constantly messaged and pressured to add our handles.”
At press time, a hopeful Francis was DMing @epicfunnypage for the tenth time today to see if they’d be willing to share his recent Tik Toks about dating in your 20’s.
By Peter Clark-Deutsch
The Bringer 