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No, it means that the subject matter is ridiculous enough to be satirical, but unfortunately it isn’t.

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Yes I understand it now. Just didn’t read your comment correctly. Thank you.

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I have been curious about this since the subreddit on reddit, is The Onion the magazine from Harry Potter universe that wrote ridiculous things or is it a real magazine? I always think of someone from HP deliberately writing dumb articles (perhaps Rita Skeeter named someone?) So i’m not sure.

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The Onion is a real paper (or at least while it was in print, it’s all digital now) and has existed since the late ‘80s, well before Harry Potter came along.

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That was The Quibbler. Skeeter wrote for the normal paper. She was normal level bullshit. Quibbler was ‘frogs on the moon’ level bullshit.

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The Onion writes dumb soot on purpose to amuse people while including a disclaimer of “none of this is real”.

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Real paper, used to have a print edition. Absurdist satire.

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