#37: The Demon Uprising of 1980
This Gen X joke is two-fold. Anyone of a certain age will remember the dreaded red-eye effect that would change a poor unfortunate soul’s eyes into scary red dots whenever the flash on a film camera was used. Anyone of a certain age will also remember the “Satanic Panic” hysteria of the 80s and 90s.
Looking back, it’s easy to see how silly both things were. So, in typical Gen X fashion, might as well make a joke about it! A few decades from now, when Gen X can’t speak for themselves, who’s to say what the history books will think about the demonic red-eye theory? It seems legit enough.