South Park isn't holding backmost immoderate punches — it conscionable took a excavation astatine Apple and Google.
The satirical drama show shared an announcement from its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, connected Instagram connected Tuesday, up of the merchandise of its 29th play connected September 16.
"Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the sanction of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA," the creators wrote successful the statement.
The station was accompanied by a image of the South Park logo, pinch a licence sheet pronunciation retired "AMERICA" pinned complete the connection "Park." A glowing US emblem was added successful the area for other flourish.
Parker and Stone's reference to Apple and Google was a hardly cloaked insult of the companies for changing the sanction of Lake Ontario to Lake America connected their representation platforms.
On August 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the h2o assemblage that straddles the US and Canadian border. The bid instructed the US authorities to alteration the sanction of the reservoir successful national maps, contracts, and documents. It came amid rising waste and acquisition tensions betwixt the 2 neighbors.
Days aft Trump's order, Google said it had updated Google Maps specified that US users would spot "Lake America," Canadian users would spot "Lake Ontario," and users extracurricular these 2 countries would spot "Lake Ontario (Lake America)."
The tech elephantine said it updates Google Maps to bespeak sanction changes successful charismatic authorities sources, which successful the US is the US Geographic Names Information System. It made akin changes past twelvemonth pinch the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump renamed the Gulf of America.
Apple Maps followed suit the week after, renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users.
South Park, which debuted connected Comedy Central successful 1997, is simply a satirical animated drama astir 4 simple schoolhouse kids surviving successful the fictional municipality of South Park, Colorado. Over its astir three-decade run, it has a history of trolling the bigwigs of politics, tech, and media, including Trump, CBS, and Tim Cook.
In their Instagram statement, Parker and Stone besides took a speedy swipe astatine South Park's genitor company, Paramount Skydance, which was created aft David Ellison of Skydance Media bought out Paramount successful 2025.
"We particularly want to convey our genitor institution Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation," they wrote.
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Aditi is simply a news newsman astatine Business Insider’s Singapore bureau. She covers hustle civilization and the early of work, focusing connected really AI and exertion are reshaping jobs, careers, and workplaces.She antecedently worked for The Straits Times, wherever she wrote breaking news stories for the Singapore desk. She studied communications and business astatine Nanyang Technological University.
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