Those videos they did 16 years ago were some of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
This is easily my favorite video ever, made by the Onion.
Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGXSPf9b-xI
Her “uuuugh sigh” is so good
My personal fav was “Congressman makes preemptive apology for extramarital affair”
The marijuana one was my favorite since it randomly played one of about a dozen videos when you played the video.
So if you played it twice, it was a different video. If you shared it with a friend, a different video.
The general story told in each video was the same, some only having minor changes and others being completely unhinged.
Whether this is satire, or the “give us $1 or else” article is, or they’re both dead serious… this is peak Onion.
In an age where reality is such bullshit that real life articles sound more like The Onion than The Onion, it is exactly what we need. I embrace our new deeply layered pungent overlords.
I hope this goes as well as it’s being marketed to be, but I’ve long since stopped trusting people who have enough money to make a news-worthy purchase. Time will tell on this one for me.
What’s the catch.
Is that for real or has the takeover made that unnecessary? Can’t tell anymore is they’re serious
Already, our trained technicians are navigating through the website and deleting every instance of the letter “T.” Soon, they will move onto the letter “E.”
That seems to be their article announcing the takeover, if so, that’s a pretty great way to prove they have the same sense of humour and intentions.
Also, looking forward to new episodes of onion news network. Hope they can get some of the original staff back too, the “morning show” hosts were awesome.
I’m not sure If this is more satire by the onion or not
Here’s the NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/media/the-onion-sold.html
The name Global Tetrahedron is, in true Onion fashion, a winking reference to a sinister fictional company featured in the book “Our Dumb Century,” which was written by The Onion’s staff and published in 1999.
I love that book. I often think about the article from 2000 about all the world’s corporations merging into OmniCorps and how close that is to becoming a reality.
