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Allison Moore
====“Critique of Monkey Farter” is an unusual analysis for many different reasons. Normally grown men wouldn’t critique the drawing of a child who is clearly very young and unskilled. The tone of this video is extremely sarcastic not only by the way that Zefrank talks but also by what he says about the picture and the artist. He starts off by talking about how the young boy “made a splash” in the art world with his drawing. Zefrank’s tone of voice is very condescending and demeaning to the artist, Will. He talks about how the piece is invites you into “a dangerous game to play”, the narrator is making fun of the fact that Will’s picture is incredibly straight forward with no underlying meaning or cause. The narrator continues by degrading the actual drawing by saying it looks like an “angled clown” and making fun of how the speech bubble has a “laceration” from the mouth but is coming from the butt which is “precariously” placed under the speech bubble. By making a reference to the caption and saying how the “physical journey mirrors the intellectual journey”. I think the tone of this is very effective because he is trying to be sarcastic and “critical” because he doesn’t really care about the picture he just thinks it’s really ironic and not very well drawn. If the tone of the critique wasn’t satirical it would not be as entertaining to watch. Also, if the video was serious then the narrator would not have been able to get his point across about how he didn’t like the picture and he thought that it as unskilled with no deep meaning. ====