• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s not the onion. But now the whole world is the Onion.

    I can think of no better irony at this point than The Onion switching directions and becoming a real news outlet.

    And future generations wokld look at their archived 80s/90s stories, and think they were real.

    And thus the cycle begins anew.

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      6 months ago

      That’s brilliant.

      You know how once in a blue moon you look at news story that’s sounds completely crazy and go “huh”? Like when buzzfeed suddenly started using all their clickbait money to fund good, legitimate journamism?

      This would be that.

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        6 months ago

        Or like when all the news outlets were reporting that the Queen had died. AND EVERYBODY BELIEVED THEM!!!

        She’s not dead. She’s still out there. Roaming the streets. Seeking justice among a seedy criminal underbelly, seeking personial closure for the deaths of her parents in an alley when she was a child.

        …wait, I might be thinking of Ted Turner.