Luisa Omielan

Is Facebook killing online comedy?

Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced major changes to the social network's algorithm. "You'll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands and media," he wrote in, predictably, a Facebook status. "The public content you see ... should encourage meaningful interactions between people."

Less than two weeks later, longstanding comedy video website Funny or Die made another round of redundancies, after laying off roughly 30% of its staff in 2016. The website's CEO, Mike Farah, vented his frustration, tweeting: "There is simply no money in making comedy online any more. Facebook has completely destroyed independent digital comedy."

Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches WIP review

She's not afraid to take the most serious of subject matters - tampon tax, the lack of diversity in government, toxic masculinity and more - debate them, then put a sassy and/or toilet humour twist on them. What Luisa manages to create is a sense of 'we're in this together', tears of both sadness and laughter create a remarkably high - energy work in progress.

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