Re:Jeff Lawson Buys The Onion
by extraduder_ire on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:29AM
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Then there's no reason to visit the site. The link card will give you everything you're looking for.
I think the de facto purpose of the article text when shared online is to make it more plausible to someone who doesn't know the site is parody.
Re:Jeff Lawson Buys The Onion
by SOLAR_FIELDS on Friday April 26, 2024 @10:40AM
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I happen to enjoy the content itself, even if it's all just riffing on the joke on the headline. But I'm a big fan of snark in general.
Also, I'm not 100% sure, but perhaps there are some SEO boosts from having long form article content that wouldn't be gained from just having a title and a blurb (though they do also do those very short form articles as well, where it's a few sentences with the headline)
https://www.theonion.com/report-we-don-t-make-any-money-if-y...
>> "Report: We Don’t Make Any Money If You Don’t Click The Fucking Link"
Here is another article that's on point. The Onion does have a way with (omitting) words.
https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-...
"Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians"
Re:Jeff Lawson Buys The Onion
by SOLAR_FIELDS on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:04PM
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I’ve felt for a long time that The Onion is the reincarnation of Voltaire: savage, subtle, clever, culturally relevant, slightly undersold in its time. They will be studied in history books, or whatever the equivalent of books become. Even if you don’t agree with the political spin, you cannot discount the beauty of how they took such a common political phrase and turned it on its head like that.
This is a recent Onion classic.
The thing about the Onion is, once you’ve got a great headline - and maybe a photo, which will usually be a head shot - the text of the article sometimes seems largely superfluous. They actually ought to be doing better in the age of Twitter and so on, but it didn’t work out that way.