Yesterday, Buzzfeed published “The Story of Egypt’s Revolution in ‘Jurassic Park’ Gifs.” L.V. Anderson feels that “there is something wrong with treating a political crisis as though it occupies the same moral realm as kittens and frosted tips”:
“The Story of Egypt’s Revolution in ‘Jurassic Park’ Gifs.” The democratic yearnings of an oppressed people reduced to 20-year-old catchphrases. A bloody, tumultuous, ongoing political conflict filtered through moving screen shots from one of Spielberg’s most popcorn-ready blockbusters. The deaths of hundreds of Egyptians—including more than 40 allegedly peaceful protestors who were shot just yesterday—metaphorically reenacted via computer-generated dinosaur maulings.
Oy.
Clearly, Anderson doesn’t understand the sheer brilliance of the business model.
The Dish 