[HN Gopher] I, Libertine
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       I, Libertine
        
       Author : sublinear
       Score  : 80 points
       Date   : 2023-01-22 18:39 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | mjklin wrote:
       | See also: "Naked Came the Stranger" and "Beyond the Valley of the
       | Dolls". Works that were intentionally, provocatively bad, yet
       | successful.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls
        
         | rippercushions wrote:
         | Finnish rapper Petri Laurila started out as "NuEra", offering
         | incisive social critique about societal problems. Critics loved
         | him, sales were dismal.
         | 
         | As a joke, he then released as album that was as crass and low
         | brow as possible, rapping about getting drunk and having sex,
         | with hilariously bad lyrics ("don't be so apathic [sic]/my mind
         | is automatic/the first time I ate pussy it tasted tomatic"). It
         | was a runaway success and he's been milking the cow ever since.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_Nyg%C3%A5rd
        
           | Cthulhu_ wrote:
           | Reminds me of Filthy Frank / Joji and the Pink Album, he
           | seems to be doing alright these days with a lot less
           | offensive music / caricatures.
           | 
           | (fun fact, he started the Harlem Shake thing from some time
           | ago)
        
         | narag wrote:
         | And a film about an intentionally bad play:
         | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | Pretty much the Polybius of literature, right down to it becoming
       | real.
        
       | Tokkemon wrote:
       | Austin McConnell has a wonderful video all about this story.
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7H5kFGEyUw
        
         | asalahli wrote:
         | Austin McConnell has the perfect combination of good
         | storytelling and finding the most interesting random topics.
         | Love his videos.
        
       | jccalhoun wrote:
       | A modern version is "The Diamond Club" by 'Patricia Harkins-
       | Bradley' but was group written by the fans of a podcast. They
       | took advantage of how itunes and amazon rankings work to have all
       | their fans buy them at once to put them on the top of the sales
       | chart.
       | https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/234388-sur...
       | https://www.bookbusinessmag.com/article/fifty-shades-then-so...
        
       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | https://variety.com/2022/film/news/martin-scorsese-addresses...
        
       | bhargav wrote:
       | This is exactly how most books make it in the times list now a
       | days too
        
       | tastysandwich wrote:
       | Gotta say I love these random Wikipedia articles that pop up.
       | They're always something I didn't exactly need to know, but verge
       | enough on the absurd that I just have to read.
       | 
       | Despite it being a big joke, I wonder what contemporary reviews
       | of the book actually were, and how many copies ended up selling?
        
       | aatd86 wrote:
       | Wait til I ask ChatGPT to create a vacuous story about an AI bot
       | that wasn't encoded with Asimov laws called phatGCT and publish
       | on Amazon...
        
       | thedailymail wrote:
       | The pull quote on the cover, "Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a
       | saucy bawd!", is itself a funny poke at a cliche in historical
       | writing known as gadzookery.
       | 
       | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gadzookery
        
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