The onion got really unfunny because they got too moralizing on their pet issues. Hopefully they can fix that.
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#32The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
You're clearly not alone in this, but I never realised they even did videos, fwiw. Similar era I was enjoying great content on the site, and it just sort of faded but didn't disappear, from my perspective, so I don't know to what extent it's purely about rise and fall of video really.
(I did just watch the very good MacBook Wheel one though.)
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#33The funnest fun fact about The Onion is that it was started by the guy that did Jim’s Journal comic strip, back in the mid 90s.
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#35Alright, stop what you're doin' 'cause I'm about to ruin
The image and the style that you're used to
All you had to do was give Jeff a chance And now I'm gonna do my dance
And to the Onion readers Peace and Humptiness forever
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#36Also "SICKOS"
I tried to explain to my wife why I bought that shirt. No comprende...
(YES... HA HA HA... YES!)
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#37The 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.
“EVERYTHING is just a few hundred clicks away”
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#38I think this is good news, because G/O Media websites are the worst.
I was at UW-Madison when The Onion started. We had a wealth of student newspapers at the time, along with The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald. Scott Dikkers and Todd Hanson, writers for The Onion, also wrote great comic strips for the Cardinal (Jim's Journal and Badgers and Other Animals, respectively).
Some favorite Onion headlines that I remember:
https://www.theonion.com/stretch-of-highway-learns-it-was-ad...
https://www.theonion.com/sudanese-14-year-old-has-midlife-cr...
https://www.theonion.com/christ-returns-to-nba-1819563859
And I can't find a link for it, but "Special Olympics T-Ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game".
Incidentally, Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept was also writing for the student newspapers way back in the day, though he was obviously doing political stuff and not comedy.
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#39Earlier 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
"Special Olympics T-Ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game" is the greatest headline ever written
My vote goes to “Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right V. Wrong’”
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#40The funnest fun fact about The Onion is that it was started by the guy that did Jim’s Journal comic strip, back in the mid 90s.
That's not a fact. Scott Dikkers didn't start The Onion, though he was a very early employee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion#Madison_(1988–2001)
Jim's Journal started in the late 80s, by the way.