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[-] prole 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Onion is way more subtle and clever than just making up fake quotes by celebrities

[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

clickhole is by the onion lol

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 15 points 1 week ago

And were doing the fake quote thing before they made clickhole.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 12 points 1 week ago

It's pretty obviously a joke quote when you take the time to read it

[-] Klear@piefed.world 5 points 1 week ago

You got downvoted, presumably by someone who thinks it's not obviously a joke, which I find both hilarious and sad.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Some people just have no whimsy.

[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I still picture the headline “Laura Bush noisily devours infant” from time to time and that had to be from an onion (probably a physical one) from around 2005.

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