Oh New Yorker, we love you, we truly do, but maybe you should leave Brooklyn parody jokes to the professionals. The esteemed Manhattan magazine has many bouts of greatness to fall back on — including finally featuring Brooklyn hero Jo Firestone this week — but falls on its monocled face with a video posted yesterday mocking a “Brooklyn breakup.” The New Yorker trips on the obvious and falls into the same trap many before it — including SNL, Jimmy Kimmel and countless web series filling our tips inbox every week — have fallen into: Instead of crafting a clever dig at the precious trends and idiosyncrasies of Brooklynites, they instead just find a way to list a bunch of sartorial and mason-jar related stereotypes about Brooklynites (and of course by Brooklynites, they mean that certain subsection of young creative types, not the diverse borough overall). Typewriters! Butterfly curtain! Rushmore VHS tapes! Don DeLillo AND Elena Ferrante books!… Read More
The New Yorker tries and fails to make fun of Brooklyn breakups in a new video : Brokelyn
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