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Damn they made the thing for real?
If you have an iPhone you can get it for free as well as the audiobook on Apple Books, otherwise: https://annas-archive.org/md5/59a6dd38e78ee052e816f5f01c424dde
I wonder if they used an LLM to generate this
I highly doubt it. The satire is very textually rich and you can tell they've put a lot of thought in - stuff like him throwing "publishers" onto the list of ruling class members in the excerpt I posted.
It would have been written by a heavily exploited ghost writer so it's not surprising they'd throw some swipes in at the publisher when they can get away with it. There is an entertaining section of this video where the host both commissions a ghost written book and then later himself writes a self-help slop book under similar conditions to how this tie-in book would have been produced.
Ehhhh, I'll watch the video later, but the joke is pretty clearly that Ricken has struggled with getting his books published, and is extrapolating the power they have over him to a society-wide class hierarchy.
Perhaps there's a double meaning but if so the ghost writer obfuscated it to the point that I'm pretty sceptical.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: