Did you catch it all?
Part 1:
- Parody of When Best Friends Kiss
- Spoof of cliche BxB and 'I fell for my stepbrother' fiction
- Spoof of basically all the cliches, actually
- Satire of diversity in books and whitewashing
- Harry Potter references
- Supernatural references
Part 2:
- Parody of Our Strange Love/His Forbidden Boyfriend
- Parody of Call Me By Your Name
- Parody of Asiman (the author) repeatedly saying it's not an LGBT story but a story about desire
- Parody of the director deliberately omitting sex scenes and my own fade-to-blacks
Part 3:
- Parody of This Is Not a Tragedy
- Spoof of slice-of-life manga/anime intros
- Spoof of Boys' Love genre
- Satire of people mistaking TiNaT for Fairy Tail fanfiction
Part 4:
- Parody of Smile for Me/His Almost Boyfriend
- Parody of Tokyo Ghoul
- Parody of Kaneki Ken taking 3 pages/minutes to creatively describe how crappy human food tastes
*You: "Hey, Lena. What's the difference between a parody and a spoof?"
Parody = exaggerating a specific model like a book, person, film, etc.
Spoof = making fun of a genre, trope, or broad topic.
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Of Oral Lips: A Parody (April Fools '18)
Humor- in which expected feelings swallow him whole and then spit him back up in a melted puddle of love