Recognizable grain
Rhythm borrowed from comment-thread catharsis — scripted for clarity and consent.
Season 1Culture lane
Internet confessionals — scripted for catharsis.
Public posts become two‑handers between the Donkey Interviewer and archetypes everyone recognizes from r/cscareerquestions and adjacent chaos.
Episodes
10 / season
Source
Public Reddit
Style
Dialogue drama
Safety
Fiction overlay
Designed like a product — not a content calendar afterthought
Every format shares the same backbone: name the dysfunction honestly, earn attention with craft, then route practitioners toward tools and thinking that survive contact with reality.
Donkey InterviewerSo your VP said “AI‑native roadmap” — did they mean Kubernetes?
Guest_742They meant a prettier Gantt chart. With sparklines.
- Select: anonymized post becomes premise bible.
- Cast: recurring interviewer voice + rotating archetypes.
- Release: audio + minimal waveform motion captioned for feeds.
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Production & ethics
Satire contracts protect sources; humor punches at incentive structures — never at vulnerable posters.
Community ethics
Original posts credited loosely; punchlines aim at structures.
Funnel
Angles expand into The Dispatch dossiers when threads imply systemic bugs.
Sponsors
Single mid‑episode integration mapped to thread theme.
Binge‑friendly seasons. Feed drops sync with comic controversy episodes for maximum “share internally” energy.
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