January 22, 20241 yr I know The Onion is now owned by some conglomerate media company, but it has been that way a while and it was still putting out consistently funny stuff. Don't know if it's a lull, but man it's not very good at the moment. There was always something about The Onion that just felt different that could be imitated but not duplicated (sorta like The Far Side). Now, the stuff just doesn't connect. Umm, ok? #3 on this list is kind of funny. #1-2 are just dumb and nonsensical. #4 is straight Babylon Bee garbage. I guess #1 is a "Spring Training" joke? #2 is another dumb and nonsensical one. Am I missing something? Newsome's slicked-back look deserves to be poked fun at, but this is like the puking silver dollars headline. It just seems kind of immature and not very clever:
January 22, 20241 yr 11 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said: The Onion has officially jumped the shark. That's what I'm worried. If it has, that's a hell of a run.
January 22, 20241 yr Same as SNL. Whatever clever original staff they had had long bolted and now its just a dried husk of its former self, staving off death with its decaying name recognition.
January 22, 20241 yr Just now, 52-80 said: Same as SNL. Whatever clever original staff they had had long bolted and now its just a dried husk of its former self, staving off death with its decaying name recognition. Well it's been around so long that I imagine that's happened several times over the years. And it's consistently been funny, even in recent years/months. Just something seems different now.
January 22, 20241 yr The problem is when reality becomes as absurd as it has become you really have to stretch the bounds and go over the top. No more room for subtle/snarky.....
January 22, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said: The problem is when reality becomes as absurd as it has become you really have to stretch the bounds and go over the top. No more room for subtle/snarky.....
January 22, 20241 yr Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source.
January 22, 20241 yr 55 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said: Well it's been around so long that I imagine that's happened several times over the years. And it's consistently been funny, even in recent years/months. Just something seems different now. This is the best comparison. There's always been an ebb and flow to how funny it is and isn't. Even without staff and ownership changes, it's hard to be "on"all the time. Those articles in the OP look perfectly average to me. Not any better or worse than is typical. But we remember the funniest jokes over time and forget how mediocre these things often are, day by day.
January 22, 20241 yr I mean they’re trying to put out 5-6 funny headlines or articles a day, just like they’ve been doing for years. It is literally impossible for them to all be funny. It’s no more or less funny than it’s ever been, OP just has selective memory Edited January 22, 20241 yr by Helobious
January 23, 20241 yr Not every day can have gems like these: https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529 https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-navy-seal-1819583375
January 23, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said: Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source. This was my assumption as well.
January 23, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said: Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source. 1234
January 23, 20241 yr 13 hours ago, cmontexas said: Humor evolves, people get old Yep. It's the same reason you can tell someone's age by when they think that SNL stopped being funny.
January 23, 20241 yr 14 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said: Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source. This has to be it. It's got that "feel" to it.
January 24, 20241 yr I mean they’re trying to put out 5-6 funny headlines or articles a day, just like they’ve been doing for years. It is literally impossible for them to all be funny. It’s no more or less funny than it’s ever been, OP just has selective memoryArea man has mediocre opinions about once relevant and topically snarky satire / parody news(ish) site.Turn to page 14 for continued coverage.
January 24, 20241 yr https://www.theonion.com/gop-voters-shrug-and-say-there-really-nothing-you-can-d-1851180465
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