Allan Ishac’s Naked Satire
I Think I Was Hacked By That Fat Guy With A Computer Who Trump Warned Us About
My political satire is getting a ton of views from Razvilka, Russia — which is really weird because I don’t know anybody in Razvilka
The other night my computer wizard friend, I’ll call him John S., came over to help analyze some data from my website and see how I might “optimize” my site.
About ten minutes in, he suggested we take a look at the unique visitor log, see where the people checking out my site were coming from.
That’s when we both had a shock. Because, it turns out, I’m getting a lot of traffic from a remote village in central Russia called Razvilka. What the f — k?
Let me clarify: my posts are 95% political satire and all are written in English. Satire is a subtle kind of humor that doesn’t translate well across borders, cultures, or languages. And American politics is an opaque, chaotic affair to most people living in other countries, especially totalitarian ones. In other words, not many foreigners…