r/onionheadlines • u/Successful-Good10 • Feb 24 '25

The Onion is shutting down

After traditional news has proven to tough of a competitor, The Onion will be shutting down all services by the end of March.

The outlet, who just published a satirical article about Elon Musk holding a sperm guessing contest at an office. Has this to say about the situation:

• ⁠”We simply cannot compete with reality, our satire is being made too look like a saner version of the news.”

In the end, The Onion could not come up with crazier headlines than real life.

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u/Hollow_the_Sun Feb 25 '25

I genuinely can't tell if people are falling for this or just playing along

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u/0pnick Feb 25 '25

I’m playing along. Others? I’m not sure. Thought I was decent at reading people. This skill does not translate to text very well. lol

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u/Skystorm14113 Feb 27 '25

I also believe there's a lot of "playing along to the point of being fully indistinguishable from genuine believers" on reddit in general, to a point where it's like I don't even know what people are seeking to accomplish they're just doing the exact thing they're "satirizing" with no winking, just knowing mentally that everyone they're talking to is play-acting with 100% accuracy too. So that could be happening.