While The Onion is a critical and satirical response to investigative news and the state of journalism, Clickhole was invented to lampoon clickbait style websites like the Buzzfeed of yore. Heartwarming: When This Subway Employee Had To Walk 20 Miles To Work Because He Couldn’t Afford A Car, The CEO Of Subway Drove Alongside Him To Cheer Him OnĬlickhole is a subsidiary of The Onion. But today, I’ll click on The New York Times and it’ll feel pretty normal.” ” He goes on to say, “Maybe a few months ago it would have upset me, even frightened me. “Local man” Alex Seidman is a 36-year-old who says he was so shocked by President Donald Trump’s electoral win that, “None of it even fazes. Story ‘Nothing Would Surprise Me At This Point,’ Says Man Who Will Be Shocked By 8 Separate News Items Today Plus, to this day, the article, first published in 2000, is on every “ Onion’ s Best” article on the internet. Though we find their use of the word “retard” inappropriate, we still can’t help but laugh at the premise (and masterful execution). The point of the article, clearly, is to demonstrates how heartless people can be in the wake of a tragedy if it means they are inconvenienced as a result. The article talks about how a toy named “Aqua Assault RoboFighters” was recalled after “three dumb kids managed to kill themselves playing with, ruining the fun for everybody else.” We’ll be the first ones to admit The Onion isn’t exactly an international bastion of sensitivity, but this one is rough even for Onion standards. Storyįun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids You can see from that excerpt alone why clueless people lost their minds over it. It’s time they cried their precious little eyes out.” It’s time our children got the wake-up call that’s been coming to them. “Years of pampering have left our newborns helpless, feeble, and ill-equipped for the arduous road ahead. “We at Johnson & Johnson have been making bath time a safe and soothing experience for far too long,” says J&J CEO William C. The premise of the article is that today’s infants are too “soft,” and the soap was an introduction to the harsh realities of an unforgiving world. In 2008, The Onion released an article titled, “Johnson & Johnson Introduces ‘Nothing But Tears’ Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns,” and the world went bonkers over it. Story Johnson & Johnson Introduces ‘Nothing But Tears’ Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns Hell, Snopes even had to debunk the myth.
The article was quoted as fact in chain emails and by religious fanatics the world over, who humorously-but-definitely-not- that -humorously quoted it to support their actual claims that Harry Potter was a Satanism recruitment tool. The Onion has been around for a very long time (it was founded in 1988), but few of its stories led to more real-world controversy and consequence as the now-infamous 2000 article, “Harry Potter Books Spark Rise In Satanism Among Children.” Harry Potter Books Spark Rise in Satanism Among Children These are the most famous The Onion articles ever written: We’ve seen some real doozies from The Onion over the years, from sharp political commentary, to criticisms of religion, and what we believe is an overabundant amount of stories about McDonald’s. The website receives over 10 million unique visitors every month, its content gets shared like wildfire, and it has since branched out to several different domains and sub-publications. In its 30-year history, The Onion has supplanted itself as the gold standard for modern satire.
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