TBD if this works, but this is 100% the kind of thing I want billionaires doing.
More expensive, weird projects that are essentially public art.
Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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#22This is the best birthday present I could have asked for. The Onion News Network has the funniest, most prescient videos online and I love going back to watch them. Even if the Onion comes back half as funny as they were it's going to be fabulous. Here are a few of my lesser-known favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJdP1zK15bE
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#23The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
They were great when they weren't shackled 'Little Boy Heroically Shoots, Mutilates Burglar' 'Black Man given Nation's worst job' (After Obama won) I've never laughed so hard at headlines
The Onion had two events that resulted in a huge drop in writing quality and edginess:
OG writers refusing to relocate from NYC to Chicago in 2012 when the HQ was moved, choosing to part ways instead.
Then, the remaining writers being called out for the following tweet, somewhat rightly, but being neutered forever after:
https://crasstalk.com/2013/02/sorry-former-onion-staffers-ca...
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#24The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
They had amazingly high production values on classics like "Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA and "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ I wonder why they stopped.
pepperidge farm remembers when the onion produced hilarious articles.
lets collate the best of the best. i'll start:
https://www.theonion.com/protagonist-scrolls-intensely-throu...
https://www.theonion.com/jumbled-nest-of-cords-makes-move-to...
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#25The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
They were great when they weren't shackled 'Little Boy Heroically Shoots, Mutilates Burglar' 'Black Man given Nation's worst job' (After Obama won) I've never laughed so hard at headlines
And who can forget their famous headline "Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality"
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#26I guess it's cheaper than a real news site, and is there any difference anymore? Babylon Bee has become defacto news now. I don't mean this in terms of blaming the left or the right, but just that it's hard for any entity to have any monopoly on the truth anymore. Mainstream, established news sites have to compete against AI-generated content and influencers in the 'news space', which has blurred the lines between truth or fiction or made it hard to know what is real or not.
Sometimes stories can be true and and yet undisguisable from 'fake' news, hence why r/nottheoinion is a thing.
I have seen people on twitter post literal fake news, and it goes viral until later debunked or deleted, which can still take hours even with community notes. Even reputable news sites are still occasionally forced to amend or even outright retract stories. When something chaotic and unexpected happens for which narration is unreliable, like a school shooting, who is right? It's just speculation for the first hour or so until something approaching 'truth' or an 'official narrative' coalesces or congeals.
it's be awesome if the three ppl who downvoted my post could elaborate how i was wrong . It is possible I am way off and someone can guide me to the truth that I am missing here. I think communication is helpful for resolving differences and maybe someone can communicate how I erred that would be more helpful. Thanks.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were great when they weren't shackled 'Little Boy Heroically Shoots, Mutilates Burglar' 'Black Man given Nation's worst job' (After Obama won) I've never laughed so hard at headlines
And who can forget their famous headline "Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality"
Standard Deviation Not Enough for Perverted Statistician
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#28The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
They were great when they weren't shackled 'Little Boy Heroically Shoots, Mutilates Burglar' 'Black Man given Nation's worst job' (After Obama won) I've never laughed so hard at headlines
"Special Olympics T-Ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game" is the greatest headline ever written
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#29The Onion is still hilarious.
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#30Breaking News: Give Us $1 Or 'The Onion' Disappears Forever https://www.theonion.com/give-us-1-or-the-onion-disappears-f...
I paid them a dollar just to see what happens.