matty ryan

Following the wild viral success of the “Shit Girls Say” video written by Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard, YouTube was flooded by hundreds of imitations with varying degrees of cheapness.  It was, perhaps, only a matter of time before someone crafted a video for the “shit Chicagoans say.”  That time has come, and the video is a horrendous abomination whose glaring inaccuracies are upstaged only by poor, contrived acting.  Oh, and by the fact that none of the people in said video are actually from Chicago.  As a lifelong Chicagoan who takes great pride in this city, I feel an obligation to address the fallacious, uninformed attempt to hop on a hackneyed bandwagon for quick recognition.  I feel even more obliged given the success and notoriety it’s attained in its misrepresentation of Chicago.
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