“Can I get ugggh one pic of a sad uni student pls xx.”
Local joke-news editor Saike Jalmon has found himself at a proverbial cross roads this morning, as the ‘young’ law student struggles to come to terms with a difficult fact. He’s quickly running out of stock photos of people burying their head in their hands…
Saike came to this sad realisation after he spent nearly 3 hours searching for yet another picture of an angsty young adult to use for an article.
“My style of writing revolves around juxtaposing caricatures of our society with the implications of their warped sense of self.” Saike professed. “I don’t know what I’m going to do though. I’m really struggling to find a decent royalty free pic on Unsplash to accurately represent the crux of my articles.” Saike unnecessarily detailed.
The editor went on to clarify that he would not make changes to the subject of his writing, despite numerous claims that the article’s he’d recently produced revolved around some form of “Haha! This guy’s complaining about a minor inconvenience, and is a bit of a hypocrite, but he doesn’t realise it. Haha!”, unaware of his own hypocrisy.
We’re unsure of what will dry up first, pictures of people in their early twenties looking upset, or Saike’s drive to contradict himself.
Hopefully no more to come.
Written by Jaike Salmon
This satire piece first appeared on The George Street Journal on July 14th 2021