In Alexis's lead blog post, she describes how the superiority theory coincides with Cody Ko's video on "That's Cringe" (which I personally love). I think she did a great job of explaining how this theory can be used to explain why some may find the video funny because we are laughing at the unfortunate situation that Skippy finds himself in along with the commentary on Cody and Noel's part (and most importatnly just the cringy situation as a whole). I also like how she incorporated the benign theory of violation, which explains why some of us may not have been laughing as much considering the multiple humor violations that took place. We can all agree that the video is pretty cringy, and Noel and Cody kind of come off as assholes, but it's just the type of humor that some people may or may not be drawn too. If you don't know Cody Ko and his humor style, you may find this video just downright mean and offensive. But overall, I would say that Alexis highlighted both sides of the story and did a great job of explaining both the superiority and benign violation theory and how it relates to Cody Ko's cringy video.

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