It’s interesting how this happened, too. First, there’s that the Babylon Bee is independent and The Onion has been just one of several brands under Gizmodo, the

It’s interesting how this happened, too. First, there’s that the Babylon Bee is independent and The Onion has been just one of several brands under Gizmodo, then Univision, then a PE firm. Independence is an asset when trying to be funny since executive notes have never been known for being creatively freeing. Second, the Bee has a big pool of writers because it has a membership tier that allows pitching headlines. And their membership has grown as they’ve become a news story for things like their suspended Twitter account. So while The Onion’s parent corp was laying off staff, the Babylon Bee was growing its writers and also making more money, which let it hire more editors and producers and hire some of the headline-writing members who had proven themselves. All that led up to being able to produce a high volume of headlines and stories.