New Indiana Law Requires All Porn Viewers To Register As Sex Offenders
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It's pretty much impossible to satirise US politics, isn't it?
"Indiana places all owners of Twister game on sex offender registry."
"Entire adult population held for questioning following anti-porn sting."
"Indiana prepares for porn criminalization by building prison wall around entire state."
"Indiana constructs new prison on former site of Ohio."
"Viewers of 'creampie' porn sentenced to watch videos to full term."
"ICE checkpoints established at vestibulum vaginae."
"Baby born on plane from Thailand deported back to Nigeria."
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That's one way to send the GOP running for the border.
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You're all just wrong.
Satire has to be more absurd than reality - no matter how absurd reality gets. Otherwise it's just lying. There's no punch, in the punchline. This headline, god help us all, is plausible.
This is a rare case of The Onion fumbling as hard as IsGlitch. If you have to see that it's from a known comedy website, to figure out it's not real, the headline has failed as comedy.
You're gonna hate to find out that "w00t" is in the dictionary, "decimate" has been nerfed by dialectic morphology via anti-literacy engineering, and no one can never go home again.
Stop shouting like a pedant, and get back in line with the rest of us, cuz'.
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You're gonna hate to find out that "w00t" is in the dictionary, "decimate" has been nerfed by dialectic morphology via anti-literacy engineering, and no one can never go home again.
Stop shouting like a pedant, and get back in line with the rest of us, cuz'.
This isn't a matter of "satire" versus "comedy." This is about bad comedy. This is... not... funny. People believe it. They had to check that it was not simply true.
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That's antithetical to satire.
What y'all experienced, in this headline, is The Onion fucking up. They picked a lie that's believable. Satire has to reach further than that, no matter how broken reality gets.
"Eating the onion" came from dipshits with zero media literacy believing the dumbest shit imaginable. Like "teenage girl to be tried as adult black man." If a bunch of reasonably savvy people have to check whether a satirical headline is real - that headline sucks. It has failed, as satire.
Comedy is selecting a lie your audience knows is not true. If half of them are going 'wait, really?' - revise.
Reality has been busily satirizing itself for a decade. The Onion tries to keep up but real life is so embedded into clown world now that things that were obvious satire a year ago are now believable.
We are at that point now. That point where you can't even make jokes anymore because there are no jokes stupider than what's actually happening.
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I was genuinely eating this onion before I came to the comments lol. Came here to drop a WTF rant, and instead I find out I'm a dummy right now.
The audience is not to blame when comedy whiffs.
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Reality has been busily satirizing itself for a decade. The Onion tries to keep up but real life is so embedded into clown world now that things that were obvious satire a year ago are now believable.
We are at that point now. That point where you can't even make jokes anymore because there are no jokes stupider than what's actually happening.
The Onion, of all sites, does not need anyone's excuses when they fumble a punchline. If people aren't sure you're joking - that's a bad joke.
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The comment section saves me once again.
Always check the community under which it's posted. It's getting harder to spot the difference between theonion and nottheonion.
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That's antithetical to satire.
What y'all experienced, in this headline, is The Onion fucking up. They picked a lie that's believable. Satire has to reach further than that, no matter how broken reality gets.
"Eating the onion" came from dipshits with zero media literacy believing the dumbest shit imaginable. Like "teenage girl to be tried as adult black man." If a bunch of reasonably savvy people have to check whether a satirical headline is real - that headline sucks. It has failed, as satire.
Comedy is selecting a lie your audience knows is not true. If half of them are going 'wait, really?' - revise.
Trouble is, no matter how ridiculous the scenario they dream up, current reality still makes it entirely believable.
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Trouble is, no matter how ridiculous the scenario they dream up, current reality still makes it entirely believable.
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The Onion, of all sites, does not need anyone's excuses when they fumble a punchline. If people aren't sure you're joking - that's a bad joke.
I used to work with a guy that was like that. Older guy that was an agent finding me contract drafting work back in the 90s. I could never tell if he was serious or not. He'd say some real borderline shit, but eventually I realised, or just decided, that he was always joking, and reacted accordingly, usually by trying to extend the joke. Seeing The Onion header is enough to know it's a joke.
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It's pretty much impossible to satirise US politics, isn't it?
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer
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This isn't a matter of "satire" versus "comedy." This is about bad comedy. This is... not... funny. People believe it. They had to check that it was not simply true.
By your overly simplistic metric, Idiocracy is no longer satire, Teach'.
️🤪Take a breath. Count your eyelashes. Whatever. Just, breathe.
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It really got me this time. I read the comments before realizing the community
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I used to work with a guy that was like that. Older guy that was an agent finding me contract drafting work back in the 90s. I could never tell if he was serious or not. He'd say some real borderline shit, but eventually I realised, or just decided, that he was always joking, and reacted accordingly, usually by trying to extend the joke. Seeing The Onion header is enough to know it's a joke.
I suspect you just worked with an asshole who thought you were a fellow asshole.
If the only indication that something's a joke is who's saying it, that's like people defending Dave Chappelle's anti-trans bigotry, because 'he's a comedian.' Like what makes it funny or benign is that he was onstage for an audience. Ha ha.
If satire has to be labeled as satire, it is shite.
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By your overly simplistic metric, Idiocracy is no longer satire, Teach'.
️🤪Take a breath. Count your eyelashes. Whatever. Just, breathe.
Why is "by your logic" never ever followed by someone's logic?
You're an unpleasant tone-policing troll. You've never understood this conversation. Shoo.
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Why is "by your logic" never ever followed by someone's logic?
You're an unpleasant tone-policing troll. You've never understood this conversation. Shoo.
Says the one getting pounded by downvotes. I'm all for you finding your inner power-bottom, but lying to randos online begins with lying to yourself, friend, and that's the travesty that keeps on giving. 🤌
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I suspect you just worked with an asshole who thought you were a fellow asshole.
If the only indication that something's a joke is who's saying it, that's like people defending Dave Chappelle's anti-trans bigotry, because 'he's a comedian.' Like what makes it funny or benign is that he was onstage for an audience. Ha ha.
If satire has to be labeled as satire, it is shite.
I suspect you just worked with an asshole who thought you were a fellow asshole.
Nah mate. We're Australian. You wouldn't understand.
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I suspect you just worked with an asshole who thought you were a fellow asshole.
Nah mate. We're Australian. You wouldn't understand.
My guy, even you thought he crossed the line. You actively chose to believe it was banter. That does not guarantee it was.
I understand what it's like for bigots to look at you and assume you're on their side. It feels friendly. It's intended as friendly. It's still bigotry. They're telling jokes - but they're not joking.
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My guy, even you thought he crossed the line. You actively chose to believe it was banter. That does not guarantee it was.
I understand what it's like for bigots to look at you and assume you're on their side. It feels friendly. It's intended as friendly. It's still bigotry. They're telling jokes - but they're not joking.
I never said he said anything bigoted or offensive. It was so long ago that I can't even remember exactly the sort of thing he said, to be honest, but I seem to recall they were more weird than offensive.
