• mozz
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    1325 months ago

    Dude I feel like The Onion is coming back into its own again

    • Tedrow
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      565 months ago

      It’s the new ownership.

      • @IMALlama
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        755 months ago

        TIL. From Wikipedia:

        On April 8, 2019, private equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group—including The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole—from Univision for an undisclosed amount.[148] The properties were formed into a new company named G/O Media Inc.[149][150] In March 2024, G/O sold The A.V. Club to Paste Magazine and was reported to be seeking buyers for The Onion.[151]

        On April 25, 2024, CEO Jim Spanfeller told employees that G/O had sold The Onion to Chicago firm Global Tetrahedron, which is owned by Twilio founder Jeff Lawson, with former NBC reporter Ben Collins serving as CEO.[152] As a condition of the deal, the new owners will retain the website’s staff and keep it based in Chicago.[153] The name “Global Tetrahedron” is taken from a “fictional evil megacorporation” that has been the subject of a running gag in The Onion articles.[154]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion

        • Zoidsberg
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          475 months ago

          “My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO,” Collins posted on X. “We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and shar[ing] the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.”

          Neat.

          • Tedrow
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            145 months ago

            The new owner used to be in charge of the misinformation best at his old news room. Now he makes fake news.

            • @[email protected]
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              85 months ago

              The best outcome. Honestly, if we could convince other misinformation reporters to turn to comedy the world would be a better place.

        • sp3ctr4l
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          245 months ago

          Wow, they were owned by Gizmodo for that time period?

          Fucking no wonder the quality went down.

        • @aaro
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          45 months ago

          Private equity

      • Nemo Wuming
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        215 months ago

        Really puts the previous ownership to shame. Who were these people??

    • @ThunderWhiskers
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      45 months ago

      They are slapping really hard this year and I love it. They had to though, reality has officially become stranger than fiction.

  • @dephyre
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    1015 months ago

    At press time, sources confirmed prominent members of the party had been instructed to quickly shift their support to a spry, cogent 31-year-old Joe Biden, who had somehow de-aged 50 years overnight.

    Look here, Jack!

  • mad_asshatter
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    85 months ago

    She already had a raspy voice!!!