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[–] thesprongler 30 points 10 months ago

Then, once it's proven to be satire...

"You can just imagine him doing it, though."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] JackiesFridge 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Based on this nonlinear scaling, I have friends who are entitled to the entire US GDP.

[–] Hiro8811 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] Maven 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 points 10 months ago

Not it all comes togheter. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 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.

[–] Pipoca 8 points 10 months ago

The Onion started as a joke/satire newspaper in 1988. They stopped printing physical papers back in 2013, but you can still buy print collections of their articles.

Their articles range from satire about current events to World Death Rate Holds Steady At 100 Percent.

[–] blackbelt352 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Excellent explanation. Thank you.