Satirical website For Play In Sydney launches
For Play in Sydney, a parody of cultural and lifestyle websites, has launched.
Published by screenwriter Julie De Fina, the site takes a satirical look at inner-city cultural topics including Sydney’s most dire laneways, the city’s best men for a post-one-night-stand breakfast and the Merivale Group buying into school tuck shops.
“Basically it stemmed from firstly being a reader of city guide sites like Concrete Playground, Broadsheet, Time Out etc, but at the same time seeing how ripe for parody they are,” De Fina told Mumbrella.
“Because those sites are so insanely popular, most people are already familiar with their format and the kind of content they cover – most of which is pretty first-world stuff, and so I felt a satirical spin on them is something people would instantly recognise and hopefully appreciate.
“In the way that ‘Portlandia’ was a big in-joke about Portland and lovingly took the piss out of the place, For Play In Sydney is going for a similar thing, but within the context of a city guide site. At the moment the website will be updated weekly with daily Instagram posts. And ideally, the aim would eventually be to do For Play In other cities. For now though, it’s all about For Play In Sydney.”
For Play In Sydney is the latest in a wave of parody websites including Double Bay Today and the Aussie Advocate following the success of sites like The Betoota Advocate.
It would have helped to have the link to the site the story is about, not just links to unrelated sites.
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See, the reason The Betoota Advocate struck a chord and resonated with the nation was because it had the ability to tap in to the Australian cultural mindset in every city, with humble beginnings in roasting Australian youth culture from the lens of a few folks with sharp tongues and fast minds. It’s not new, it just changes with time, see: origins of The Chaser.
There is nothing sadder than seeing TV writers try and dogpile on the phenomenon of hard-cutting, satirical web journalism (poorly might I add) and utilising their connections, who I should add are often the subjects of ridicule in Betoota articles*,* to launch their piss poor efforts, a la The Australian Advocate and this; which Mumbrella has forgotten to post a link to.
**Read: every piece on ad land in the Advocate
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Link: https://www.forplayin.com/
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Hmmm, it’s not very funny.
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Really piss poor.
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It’s a quick read at the moment, but some good laughs there!
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Hi Mike,
Good point. I have added in a link to the For Play In Sydney site so you can see for yourself.
Thanks!
Vivienne – Mumbrella
Checked it out. I think there’s clever stuff in there. Different to BA.
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Hilarious! Who keeps hiding all these gems!!! Diamond effort
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Not sure how big the market is for it but the quality is better than I was expecting. Quite a few funny pieces.
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Had a look and it’s v different to Betoota and Aussie Advocate. More a direct piss-take of Concrete Playground. Didn’t mind it.
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