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I’m guessing you’re referring to their YouTube channel, in which case, I totally agree. But AFAIK the website is still just as good as always. They used to put
by jw1224 3y ago
I’m guessing you’re referring to their YouTube channel, in which case, I totally agree. But AFAIK the website is still just as good as always.
They used to put out brilliant high-production value videos like this one: https://youtu.be/Y2j3PsDW33E https://youtu.be/Y2j3PsDW33E
Now it’s nearly all low-effort YT Shorts like these… https://youtu.be/-0CVJS1FTmY https://youtu.be/-0CVJS1FTmY
Perhaps the satire has just gone over my head? But it’s hard to give them the benefit of the doubt when all their videos are like this now…
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoI recall reading somewhere that the high-quality Onion videos of a decade-plus ago (I loved Today Now and Sex House) cost a lot of money but simply didn't make much money. Which I guess is obvious if a for-profit company stopped making them, but still, it is a shame quality wasn't rewarded.
- kridsdale3 3y agoThey're merely adapting their product to the unforgiving dramatic shifts in the market's consumption model. Those that don't (like College Humor), die.
- Jasper_ 3y agoThey’ve been funded my whoever pay their bills. For ONN/Today Now, that was paid for by IFC, a TV network. Their Onion Digital years (Sex House, Onion Talks) were basically ads for them as a creative agency (aka Onion Labs, which was shut down in late 2015). Since then, they were sold to G/O Media, and have been basically been gutted. There’s more than one series which was funded by a streaming platform that has since shut down, and is basically lost media at this point.