City of Savannah Steals Parody Websites Award

In a turn of events that, honestly, 2020 should have prepared us for, on Wednesday we awoke to find that The Connect gave our Best of Savannah award to the government of Savannah. In a decision that will shock no one who has casually glanced at American politics this year, the government accepted the award.

So basically what we’re saying is that the satire literally wrote itself this time. Honestly, we could not have thought of a more hilarious scenario than this. What’s the funniest part you ask? Both the City of Savannah Government and The Connect have decided that instead of admitting the error they are both just going to dig in on the mistake and cut off all contact with us.

Again, this article just keeps writing itself. Now, mind you, there’s no one left at The Connect that probably gives a damn about us, since they were unexpectedly taken over by a right-wing conservative publisher last month. Half of the staff promptly quit, which is most likely the real-world scenario that led to the mix-up in the first place.

While we’re sure someone felt very smart about timing the change of publisher with the annual awards, unfortunately, they failed to see the error of not having people on your staff that know dick about shit. The only comment from The Connect at the time of this writing is “Love y’all ❤️” on one of our three Instagram posts pointing out the error. Probably what should be expected from new the new publisher, who comes to us from Alabama by way of Texas, which is to say she doesn’t know anything about Savannah. But don’t worry, she’s about to find out.

The response of the City of Savannah Government has been even more laughable. After repeatedly ghosting our DMs for the last 48 hours the only statements from the City of Savannah have been on our (and their) Instagram posts as well, and honey, these responses are sassy. We are practically proud of the amount of sass in these responses, feels like a little of us is rubbing off on town hall. 

The best part of all of this, the ruse is apparently set to continue. With no official statements and a lack of any real free local journalism in Savannah, what is a silly parody website to do? Let’s just say we’re waiting on The Savannahian to get up and running so we can tell our side of the story. Even better, apparently, the new papers’ official announcement is today. What joy, to have Savannah’s best journalists back at what they do best. In the meantime, we just encourage y’all to go out, pick up as many copies of The Connect you can find, and burn them. That would certainly warm our hearts.   

Update 10/24/20: The Connect has made the correction on their website here. However, the City of Savannah has yet to contact us to return our award.