The Onion has instead switched to reporting real news.
The Sarcasm Industry is on the verge of collapse … the last time that happened was in the 1930s
So what you’re saying is we should be on the lookout for men who don’t have the right or authority to do things, but try to force their way in anyway. Those are the guys who want to be ultimate unquestioned dictator.
Like…maybe we should grab these guys, and throw them out of any meaningful positions of power. And if they’re criminals, we should throw them in jail. When you’re a criminal they let you do it. So we should just grab them by the balls, and lock them up!
…I really wanted to include a reference to hunter bidens laptop, but couldn’t make it work in that joke.
It’s a stretch, but i wonder if things like the onion, with us laughing at the insane stories has had any impact on the general reaction to what’s happening now. Like people don’t really care.
It’s more like pranking your granny in the nursing home. Still plenty easy to do, but sad and cruel.
HEY GRANDMA! THIS ISN’T YOUR HOUSE!!!
HEY AMERICA! THIS ISN’T FASCISM! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
This is very funny and also terribly sad
Truth. Half the time I see some satire article from The Onion or similar productions and I have to double take to make sure it’s The Onion and not real. Satire used to be more obviously absurd and mocking. Now it’s too real.
Satire is getting really hard.
It’s April and we are all the fools.
Am Irish and this happened to me today. There are no more joeka. Life is a joke
It feels like there’s few pranks these days that don’t end up being cruel. We have enough horrifyingly outrageous things in the news, that if the prank is trying to make us think something horrible happened that didn’t, we sure don’t need that. On the other hand, if it’s trying to make us think that something good happened, but it didn’t, then that’s a really perverse cruelty.
Lukewarm take: if the person being pranked doesn’t laugh during or immediately following the prank then it’s not a prank anymore, it’s just being mean to someone. Basically all the things “ruined” as pranks by the current situation fall under this, so it’s not really ruined at all.
Pranks also don’t work during periods of fascism … someone is liable to get arrested, beaten or taken away
I’m so depressed about what’s happening in America, I didn’t even attempt any April Fool’s jokes
Bro last night I was scrolling YouTube and I saw some 20 something dude with a toilet seat on his head just straight “skibidi dibidi dobidi doobidi” while bashing his head with toy school bus.
And there were like hundreds of people watching.
It was like an actual intergalactic TV channel from Rick and Morty.
Daria was on track.
That’s not funny, sad or weird
That’s a mental disorder
Found him…
Yeah there’s not much jovial energy to go around either. Any time I see misinformation today I don’t go April Fools, I just try to ignore it and move on.
It works if trying to pass off the prank as good news
Also there are so many satirical sites now, you can’t just look for Onion on the link anymore.
