• @thesprongler
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    3010 months ago

    Then, once it’s proven to be satire…

    “You can just imagine him doing it, though.”

    • Jackie's Fridge
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      510 months ago

      Ah yes the Babylon Bee. When you buy The Onion on Wish.

  • @[email protected]
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    1110 months ago

    I can barely fault people or draw a line at this point. Just look at the “theonion” community here on Lemmy.

    If it wasn’t from The Onion and was instead from literally any other satire publication, 90% of the comments and votes are treating it like it’s an actual article. It’s embarrassing.

    The problem isn’t getting things wrong, it’s opening your mouth and cementing that fact before you’ve done the bare minimum of looking at where the thing you’re commenting on came from.

  • @Hiro8811
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    710 months ago

    Can someone explain the onion meaning? atetheonion? nottheonion??

    • Maven (famous)
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      5310 months ago

      The Onion is a satire news site. Everything on it is fake and intended as a joke.

      Not the Onion is REAL headlines that look like they could be from a parody news site.

      Ate the Onion is when people see FAKE comedy news and think it’s real.

      • @Hiro8811
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        1010 months ago

        Not it all comes togheter. Thanks

    • Backspacecentury
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      910 months ago

      The onion is a satirical news site. As in they make up stuff to be funny. The term “ate the onion” is when people believe their articles are real news.

      Conversely, notheonion is meant to be examples of things that are absurd enough to seem like satire, but are actually true.

    • @blackbelt352
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      610 months ago

      The Onion is a satirical news site, they’re known for satirizing the sorts of sensationalized news headlines of legacy media in the modern day, setting themselves up as an excellent critique of the absolute absurdity that modern news media can be and just how easily it is to mislead the average person.

      Their headlines are typically wildly outlandish and sarcastic, but sometimes get mistaken for real headlines from actual news sources, which is called Eating the Onion.

      And then sometimes real life is just a satire of itself and a real news source writes an article and headline that is just wildly outlandish people could mistake it for an Onion article, with the realization that this wild news article is not actually from the Onion, hence Not the Onion.