I was watching this video

Which I felt was humorous to be sure, but also a sad and accurate portrayal of the "vocal minority" in the gaming community at large and began to wonder. Do the people who are being made fun of, realize that they are the target of the joke? And if so, do they laugh along, or being the type of person they are, do they get angry? Are they conflicted? Can you laugh at yourself for being the way you are? And then, it sort of spun off into other areas. For instance

What do racists think of the way they're portrayed in popular media?

Do they watch these shows and cheer at scenes that are made to be jeered at? Can they appreciate characters who start off racist but eventually see the error of their ways and become better people? If you are legitimately of the same mindset of the character, is the entire show/episode/movie a completely different experience than for someone who isn't?

How about gamers?

In most cases, when the butt of a joke is that the person is a gamer, I'm usually laughing along rather than feeling like I'm being laughed at. I feel like things have gotten to a point where there isn't as negative a stigma attached to being a gamer as there was say 5 to 10 years ago. I might be singing a different tune though if I were a morbidly obese, extremely socially awkward fellow who's life revolved around an MMORPG. If that were the case, maybe I'd be a little more offended but in my personal case, prolly not because I'd be able to see that it's funny because it's true. . . I laughed out loud in 40 year old virgin during this scene. Btw, I'm an asian gamer with a lot of games.

I looked so hard for a movie clip, and it doesn't exist...

Anyway, for the most part, I think smart writers know who the target audience is, and can write in an in-joke type of fashion. Though, you do occasionally get this.

I tried so hard to find Sarah Silverman at the VGA, but I think ninja assassins have somehow deleted it from the internet. Seriously, it's crazy. The video doesn't exist. . .

Anyway, back on point. Did I even have a point?

No. not really. I was just curious whether people who rage about review scores see these types of things portraying them as, I dunno, crazy people and realize that they're sort of crazy. Do they laugh along? Or do they rage some more? Are they embarrassed? The world may never know. I'm hungry.

your first video clip got removed by the users. 
 
sometimes people know that they are being made fun of.  the jaime kennedy bit was pretty bad. the jokes weren't funny.
 
i also thought the make love not warcraft pretty funny. i use to play wow. when that episode aired everyone who played wow laughed at that, including me.

That Jamie Kennedy thing was kind of awkward. But I watched it all!

If you check the NeoGAF thread on that Mega64 video—forum that had a stupid amount of backlash due to that Uncharted 3 review—people definitely realize who that video's making fun of. 
 
Personally, I don't have much of a sense of humor, so when a joke is aimed at any aspect of my being in an insulting manner, I don't find it funny. Well, that's most of the time, I suppose.

Jamie Kennedy's segment was pretty bad...  It was funny how Gary Whitta was having that fight with him on Twitter

@iam3green: Thanks for the heads up. Replaced it with some embed code -_-;;

@FluxWaveZ: Reading the first page of your link, it seems like the majority of people got the joke. The ones that didn't, actually were funnier than the video itself.

Remember when people cared about Jamie Kennedy and found him funny?

Me neither.

Remember when people cared about Jamie Kennedy and found him funny?

Me neither.

I generally try to laugh at myself if the joke is not too mean spirited.

I don't have much of a sense of humor though.

Haha, that Mega64 video is great. I should watch more of their stuff...

That was so so soooo incredibly awkward....

Great Mega64 skit.

There's always these young kids (well, I'm assuming that the vast majority of them are young, anyway) that treat review scores like some holy metric that can be used as a standard to measure quality between individual games. It amuses me.

@RobertOrri: I always assumed that the crazy hate was because these people have already formed their own opinion on a game and what it should get, and someone else who has a louder voice than them has an opinion that doesn't line up with their own. The weird thing is, the more someone gets angry about a review score, and cyber shouts that it should be ignored and the person is stupid, the more they themselves have taken to heart the review. If the reviewer/site/whatevs is actually as shitty as they're trying to make it out to be, then realistically nobody would care about that review anyway. Also, in a large number of cases, the people yelling about the review scores have yet to finish the game themselves, if they've played it at all. It's all so crazy -_-;; So in most cases, I see them as either being someone who hasn't yet learned that other people will have other opinions than your own, and that's okay. Or that they're just trolls. . . In both cases, immature and most likely a child who should be ignored. Most cases. Sometimes, reviews are actually written badly or just wrong. But again, in those cases, nobody cares about the review anyway so who gives a shit. Madness.

The real question, though, is if it's funnier when people realize they're being made fun of or when they don't?

That Modern Game Journalism: The Movie video is awesome. Haha, I wish it was a real film. Thanks for posting it.

Anyway, about raging at reviews, I don't think I do that, but I do facepalm when something so stupid is posted/said, that makes you not want to live on this planet anymore. For example most GameTrailers reviews, in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. review he was sniping with a shotgun and complained about how inaccurate he was. He said the AI was too good. It's moronic statements like these that make me want to choke someone.

Obligatory Best of GT video.

All is well when a reviewer has legitimate complaints, but when he's being an imbecile it's that things go awry.

Sometimes it's fun to join in on the joke. I started eating Hot Pockets after watching the South Park WOW episode. I believe it's easier to see the humor when what is being ridiculed isn't too controversial. Video gaming, breast enhancements, the idol rich can be spoofed without as much malice as racism, religious beliefs or sexual preferences. This is because the latter can define the core of a person while the earlier examples are trivial character traits. It's the difference between what you do (or how you look) and who you are.

@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:

Jamie Kennedy's segment was pretty bad... It was funny how Gary Whitta was having that fight with him on Twitter

Link?