Ah, that explains how the joke works. The linked article wasn't especially good, I felt. It's a little too on-the-nose.
That's just Poe's Law in action. It's hard to parody extremists because they parody themselves. People really do post precisely like this.
The joke works better on Twitter itself than on their web site. The side needs a link to it to complete the joke, but it's almost like coming into the gag halfway through.
Blink and you'll miss it, but the article does lead with "We now publish this press release on our Twitter account in a desperate effort to show these corporate tyrants that their barbarity will not go unchallenged".
and concludes with
"We urge our readership to stay with us as the situation develops. The easiest way to get the latest updates on our Twitter ban is by following us on Twitter."
I honestly can't tell if the top replies ate the onion or are just playing along. A lot of their profile pics look like people who might not get the joke.
I think the reason is that reality is catching up with The Onion. There is an entire subreddit called /r/NotTheOnion just for that, real stories that could be on The Onion.
> It’s funny because the Onion has long since stopped being controversial enough to be at risk of being banned by anyone.
If the Onion stopped being controversial, that's because too many people started to confuse articles posted by Onion as being a reflection of their personal beliefs instead of the parodies and satire that they are.
Yes, it's all satire. You should try Onion News Network videos on YouTube, they are funny as hell. Especially, the movie reviews by that one guy are hilarious.
If it were not censored, it could had been useful by telling the truth between the lines with humor. Unfortunately we live in the times that even a jester can't speak the truth to the king without risking losing their life.
Pity. Like all mainstream comedy, Onion too is now spouting establishment lines, and pretending to be 'edgey' while doing it to appeal to the hipsters.
I love good satire, over the last decade I’ve moved from the Onion to Clickhole and have landed on Babylon Bee for now. They have a stuff aside from their partisan pieces that matches the quality of The Onion and Clickhole when they were in their prime.
Both of these articles are recent, in my opinion the jokes and the production quality are just better on The Bee. There’s a lot of political stuff from both too but that’s not what I’m interested in.
I think both are pretty terrible lol...there's a small chuckle I get from the last line in the Bee piece, which, thanks to the terrible writing, feels like it takes forever to get to, and one from the lead-in image on the Onion piece, which, mercifully, I get right on page load.
Their system is to get in a room and come up with headlines. Then they go away and write a little copy to go with it.
So generally the whole point is just the headline anyway. I doubt anyone there would be offended by your comment (which I assume wasn’t intended as an insult, but just saying they’d agree with you)
“It’s tricky and it’s really tricky now as satire has become reality,” Parker said. “We were really trying to make fun of what was going on [last season] but we couldn’t keep up. What was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to just back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1517215456985235462