[Unsolicited Opinons on Israel???]

About

[Unsolicited Opinions on Israel???] refers to exploitables originating from a joke in the Marvel comic book “Angela Queen of Hel” ^[1]. The joke was infamous for its blatant political strawman humor, how out of place it looked in the comic’s dark setting, and the irony given its original purpose and issues surrounding it. The exploitables are used as edits replacing dialogue from another comic book to change the original comic’s message or to just create shock humor by having it look like the character is saying something politically incorrect. Sometimes, the exploitable is used in comics with no connections to any political opinion to mock the original joke’s awkward execution. It is also used by critics of the modern social justice movement, a movement accused of censoring what they deem as politically incorrect while delivering “heavy handed social commentary”^[2] that strawmans the opposition instead of delivering two sides of the discussion.

Origin

On January 27, 2016, the ongoing Marvel comic series “Angela, Queen of Hel” released its fourth issue. Upon release, it had received criticism for a joke that has Marvel character Bor confronting the main protagonists and ranting in politically incorrect phrases that the author censors with black bars describing them as “misogynist filth” or “redpilled MRA meninist casual racism” as a joke.

Spread

Critics included Marvel fans annoyed at the increasing number of biased social commentary in the comics. Issues on the political bias seeping into the comics were discussed in websites like Reddit^[3] and 8chan, with some videos uploaded discussing the issue.

Upon release, a thread on 8chan within the /co board was made discussing the issue coupled with other examples of the heavy handed social commentary from other Marvel comics. Some of the anons made parodies of the heavy handed original joke by either switching the political stance of the original censors. But replacing original dialogue with the actual quotes from the joke, such as “Unsolicited Opinions on Israel???” soon became the popular method of mocking the joke due to the censor bars’ exploitable nature and due to using the censors unaltered mocks the lack of self awareness in the original joke.

Eventually, the edits broke out of the original thread and spread to other boards such as /v or any others that are annoyed at the writing issues surrounding Marvel comics. Soon it spread to other sites such as Twitter^[4] and Tumblr^[5] In these edits, the punchline or comic from the original comic is changed depending on which censor edit the modified comic uses. Usually, the censor bars used to edit a comic are these followings, with “Unsolicited Opinions on Israel” being the most popular of the edits.