‘How Has This Show Not Been Cancelled?’ How ‘South Park’ Keeps Going In The Age Of The Outraged Tweet

“In fairness, it is genuinely quite surprising that it’s managing to survive in 2018, a time where making a joke about something horrible is now deemed nearly as bad as the horrible thing itself. South Park season 22 has therefore had to change in order to ensure its survival in the outrage era. As the world – well, the world of Twitter at least – gets angrier and more reactionary, [Trey] Parker and [Matt] Stone have had to fine-tune their satire, making the takeaways of each episode more balanced than ever before.”