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Parodies are a very prevalent part of today’s popular culture. We see skits like this on Saturday Night Live, The Soup, and many other shows on television, as well as seeing images mocking our culture all over the internet. This sensation has become more and more popular as technology has greatened and people have become more interested in it. Jenkins discusses this in his essay, and uses Star Wars as his prime example, because of its strong influence in popular culture, and how parodies from it are everywhere. “As more and more amateur works have entered into circulation via the Web, the result has been a turn back toward a more folk-culture understanding of creativity.” I think this quote means that even though we rely on technology, we have become so much more creative in how we think and display humor. This humor then can be spread so much quicker then before and more can appreciate it. Also it allows any normal citizen to become part of this because technology is so accessible and very user friendly now. 

“In such a world, fan works can no longer be understood as simply derivative of mainstream materials but must be understood as themselves open to appropriation and reworking by the media industries.” This I believe means that the parodies we see today aren’t just seen as parodies but as a form of media of their own and not just a branch of the original. Appreciation for the original is still seen obviously, but humor can be taken as well. I personally love satire and parodies because I love popular culture and think that the humor is great. The picture I found is a parody on Star Wars and also organic foods. I think it fits into the piece by Jenkins very well.