From his perspective, the cautionary tale unfolds. Gower altered the story somewhat into a cautionary tale. The genre of the cautionary tale has been satirized by several writers. Many used Poe as a cautionary tale against alcohol and drugs. Carolla uses his own childhood as a cautionary tale, and decries helicopter parenting. He said that the film serves as a cautionary tale about over-sharing on social media. Bill Lamb wrote that the song has a "cautionary tale in the lyrics". It remains influential as a cautionary tale against tampering with a well-established and successful brand. Those whose job it is to enforce conformity therefore frequently resort to cautionary tales. This footage is still shown to engineering, architecture, and physics students as a cautionary tale. Alternative history novels depicted Nazi invasions of Great Britain as a form of "cautionary tales". "Little Suck-a-Thumb" (1992) is a psychosexual interpretation of the infamous cautionary tale. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. "The miser and the monkey" (XII.3), used as a cautionary tale for financiers. "Effervescing Elephant" was pastiche of the verse form of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children.