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In typical Onion fashion, they have been tweeting all day about how they are banned from Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1517215456985235462 https
by antognini 5y ago
In typical Onion fashion, they have been tweeting all day about how they are banned from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1517215456985235462 https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1517215456985235462
- seattle_spring 5y agoI 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.
- Schopenhauer01 5y agoLol, 12 minutes, I love it.
- jfengel 5y agoAh, 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.
- dTal 5y agoBlink 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."
- Vladimof 5y ago> Ah, that explains how the joke works. The linked article wasn't especially good, I felt. It's a little too on-the-nose. They did also put a link to their Twitter in the article ;)