The American Bystander's Viral Load

The American Bystander's Viral Load

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The American Bystander's Viral Load
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Interview with Bystander Propagandist, Katherine Shane, Ph.D., on her favorite WPA Posters

Interview with Bystander Propagandist, Katherine Shane, Ph.D., on her favorite WPA Posters

Dinosaurs, Sharks, Babies, and a Gender Reveal.

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The American Bystander's Viral Load
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Interview with Bystander Propagandist, Katherine Shane, Ph.D., on her favorite WPA Posters
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To provide jobs during the Great Depression, the Works Projects Administration hired unemployed artists to create tens of thousands of posters.

We are lucky to have an expert on WPA posters here in the office. Katherine Shane, Ph.D. serves as Chief Propagandist for The American Bystander. She runs our lucrative side-hustle creating tastefully humorous content for dictatorships. Katherine’s “Just Say No (to Protests)” campaign for Iran just won us a coveted Goebbels Prize for Best Digital Campaign.

We asked Katherine to select some of her favorite WPA posters and tell us about their history.

AS OLD AS CREATION

Bystander: Tell us about this poster.

Katherine: The first thing you should know is that dinosaurs actually did have syphilis. Their bones are crawling with it. So that part is accurate. The mystery is how did cavemen — and cavewomen— got dinosaurs to sleep with them? But syphilis is still with us today, so they must’ve figured it out. I know how I’d do it.

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