Okay so for international followers who aren’t aware, election season in Australia is basically the biggest comedy event of the decade. Australian culture does NOT tolerate people who try to big up themselves or rock the boat, so a bunch of billionaires and politicians suddenly appearing everywhere claiming how great they are is basically painting a giant target on their backs to be mocked, tarred and feathered.
This is so much the case that the Australian national broadcaster The ABC used to even have a whole running series during elections where they would send out fake journalists to mock politicians and crash their events to spread chaos which was one of the highest rating shows on TV.
Pranks included trying to replace the microphones at press packs with baguettes and seeing how long it takes the politicians to realise, a kid cracking an egg on a neo-nazi’s head, and a comedian chasing the Prime Minister down the street with a chainsaw.
Obviously politicians didn’t like this so eventually the show was pulled from TV, but that just left a giant hole for the internet to fill where a bunch of pranksters untethered by TV standards now turn up to all political events trying to clown on the politicians.
At the last election, the national clowning included a remix of the Prime Minister’s debate into a song called “coal makes me cum” which cut up the Prime Minister’s words to make it sound like he jerks off to fossil fuels (the guy one famously brought a lump of coal into parliament to show off how much he loves it, so it was deserved).
This song ended up getting over a million streams and hit number one in the charts during the election. Not only that it even got enough write in votes for the Hottest 100 (our national yearly song poll that’s a huge event in Australia) that it ended up ranking despite not being in the official voting list and as a result the national broadcaster had to play it on air.
The song made a laughing stock out of Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister at the time, and he and his government were absolutely annihilated on election day.
As for the second one, we inadvertently informed a bunch of people about the next election announcement yesterday when we joked about it on a poll about cum (see previous reblog). Apologies if this is how any of you are now learning about the election.
