I didn’t have much respect for MAD magazine to start with, always seemed to be generic boomer humour from what I’ve seen.
At one point that generic boomer humor was new and cutting edge. It’s an old magazine with their heyday in the 70’s
I don’t like to call it boomer humor. That shit was funny in the 90s. For better or worse, it wasn’t the jokes that changed, it was our reaction to it.
Thinking specifically of things like “Miss Swan”, “The ambiguously gay duo”, and “Pat”. Although I think only one of those was MAD. Still, we (as in the cisfolk, at least) thought it was funny enough at the time for it to keep getting aired.
It’s boomer humor now because our sense of humor matured and adapted…and theirs didn’t.
Man, I haven’t had a MAD subscription in ages. I didn’t realize they were still in print. Lol
I don’t think this is real. If you search up the issue number you’ll see the real version. It’s also from 1974.
Yea I wondered that after I posted my comment but I wondered if it was a joke issue or something. A lot of the issues I had growing up had a front cover and a back one that would work if you flipped it the right way that was an alternative or a joke cover.
So did someone make this with AI 🤔
They’re republishing old editions with new covers
No, someone took an existing painting and modified it with copy/paste to show two middle fingers. Which is also ironic, given the message they’re trying to send.
Its not real.
originally published
MAD #166, Apr 1974
lol yeah, otherwise MAD was WAAAAY ahead of its time 😂
EDIT: huh, does lemmy not support nested quotes or am I just dumb
That part isn’t on the original cover. Is this a real foldout from a recent MAD issue that is an updated version of the 1974 cover?
LLMs don’t make pictures
I guess? But, how do you think the text part of text-to-image creation works?
What is this from? Did you print this? Why would you leave the og price and date tho? And no context? C’mon now this is an interesting story. But also, not something actually made by MAD Magazine… unless you work there? For those who don’t know what this is referencing:
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/mad_magazine_gives_america_the_finger
And as far as I can tell OPs image is not an actual MAD cover.
MAID magazine
AI is more like 1 middle finger + a partial middle finger, cuz its that sloppy
