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At long last, InfoWars is ours
- bigyabai 6mo ago> Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. In any age where Polymarket didn't already exist, we'd have called this satire.
- CobrastanJorji 6mo agoIt's still not as bad as the actual InfoWars, which if I recall was selling "Alex Jones Natural" supplements, which were mostly just stuff like regular iodine tablets with a massive market and a cool name like "Survival Shield X-2."
- add-sub-mul-div 6mo agoMaybe that could help fund The Onion. Why should the rich on the right have a monopoly on swindling the poor on the right with fake supplements?
- CobrastanJorji 6mo agoThat assholes are kicking rubes is not a good reason for you to kick rubes.
- burkaman 6mo agoThis is not final and still has to be approved by a judge (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo...)
- adzm 6mo ago> Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” > Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. > “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview.
- throwawayq3423 6mo agoBirds aren't real 2.0 I love it.
- kvuj 6mo agoRight up with the crypto scam that followed it. Great. In case you didn't know, the creators of Birds aren't real rug pulled and stole millions with their crypto coin.
- triceratops 6mo agoIf true, you have to admire their commitment to the bit. I didn't find anything about this though.
- nemomarx 6mo agoYou want to look for Enron - they bought the hostname as part of something
- triceratops 6mo agoI saw a couple stories about that which suggested it was a parody shitcoin. Even if not, the name Enron should've been an obvious clue.
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- buellerbueller 6mo ago^Copium
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- tosser12344321 6mo ago> Rupert Murdoch does not own The Onion. The satirical publication was acquired in April 2024 by Jeff Lawson, the co-founder of Twilio. The Onion was previously owned by Univision Communications (later Fusion Media Group), not the Murdoch-controlled News Corp or Fox Corporation ?
- taurath 6mo agoIt’s owned by the guy who was the CEO from twilio now.
- itsdesmond 6mo agoThis is simply untrue. Rupert Murdoch has never had an ownership stake in The Onion. It is currently held privately by Twilio cofounder and former CEO Jeff Lawson and former NBC News reporter Ben Collins. Was this a mistake, something you mis-remembered?
- niloc132 6mo agoOr perhaps obvious parody content, such as the type The Onion might publish.
- itsdesmond 6mo agoC’mon. Making this argument doesn’t even respect yourself, let alone anyone else.
- eatonphil 6mo agoDespite the article, infowars.com at least doesn't really seem to be run by The Onion yet? But I'm looking at that site for the first time so I have no idea.
- tim333 6mo agoTrue. Still needs a judge to sign off, which I kind of doubt will happen.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoto be honest I doubt anyone will notice that much of a difference, infowars is so nuts that any sane person would think it parody
- jmward01 6mo agoSo they are now setting the content on infowars.com? Honestly, I can't tell since everything on that site looks so fake it isn't believable. The onion transition may be hard to detect.
- junon 6mo agoSeems like there will be a new logo with an onion on it, judging from the tote bag merch shown in the article. That's when we'll know, I suppose.
- aaronbrethorst 6mo agoAssuming that the announcement video Ben Collins posted represents the new logo, it's a delightfully pride rainbow-colored InfoWars logo with an onion in place of the 'o'. https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mjwx7iv5kk2m https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mjwx7i...
- jimt1234 6mo agoI visited with my family in rural Missouri recently. Alex Jones and InfoWars is gospel to them. I was amazed at how many times cited him as an authority on various topics. I thought they were joking, but apparently, Obama made a promise with his father before his passing that he would destroy the United States. Oh, and of course, Obama is Satan, and Trump was sent by God to protect us all. Of course.
- pogue 6mo agoSeems like it's still not theirs until a judge signs off on it. That sale was scuttled by a bankruptcy court. Now, The Onion has re-emerged with a new plan: licensing the website from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site. On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’s Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in a court filing. Under the terms, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, would pay $81,000 a month to license Infowars.com and its associated intellectual property — such as its name — for an initial six months, with an option to renew for another six months. The licensing deal has been agreed to by The Onion and the court-appointed administrator. But it is not effective until Judge Gamble approves it, and Mr. Jones could appeal any ruling. That means the fate of Infowars remains in limbo until the court rules, probably sometime in the next two weeks. Mr. Jones continues to operate Infowars.com and host its weekday program, “The Alex Jones Show.” The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo...
- shagie 6mo agoUnlocked link for the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cVA.Urwu.vyh1c_y6zmvm&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo...
- pityJuke 6mo agoI’m surprised they’ve said it so confidently given how it completely collapsed last time…
- kstrauser 6mo agoI think it's a good PR move. "Hey, look at how reasonable we've been in spite of the legal craziness. We've put money on the table and are moving forward with a plan that benefits everyone." Now anyone who blocks the plan will be seen as the problem.
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- incomingpain 6mo agoYou want to be associated with toxic waste IP? Why? You're not going to attract any of the audience. You likely could have just chose a new name and built whatever you want to do with this.
- minimaxir 6mo agoThat's the joke.
- OgsyedIE 6mo agoThe Onion and Mr Beast are the highbrow and lowbrow versions of the same niche: absurdism, spectacle and indifference without staying power. Since there's such low retention, the content must be weighted to constant new conversions and new reconversions. Edit: if you have the time, watch their youtube series Sex House, Helcomb County Municipal Lake Dredge Appraisals and Dr. Good (approx 75 minutes each). There's no nudity, gore or cursing, just some very clever themes about the parallels between television and hell that are still relevant right now, if not more so.
- mattkrause 6mo agoThe Onion has been around since 1988, so...decent staying power.
- busterarm 6mo agoAnd hasn't had any cultural relevance aside from this stunt for just about the last decade. It's like saying that National Lampoon is still relevant.
- gegtik 6mo agodo you have a rubric to share for qualifying for cultural relevance?
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- imagetic 6mo agoNothing else matters in the world today
- luke727 6mo agoMaybe it's just me but I don't see much humor in this. His brand and assets may have been liquidated, but he's still doing his show and it remains popular. The only people who really won in this saga are, as usual, the lawyers.
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- tomstockmail 6mo agoThe reason InfoWars is being sold is because of the bankruptcy proceedings. This is money owed to Sandy Hook families [1], who were the target of the harmful conspiracy theories that caused them further pain and suffering. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s...
- luke727 6mo ago> “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer who argued the Connecticut families’ case in court. The deal with The Onion promises “to significantly degrade his power to do that.” But the deal doesn't do that. Alex Jones has other websites where he's spewing his nonsense and hawking his merch. Maybe it feels good to get his major brand name, but it is largely inconsequential in limiting his reach.
- pton_xd 6mo agoIt was barely funny when I read the headline a few years ago. Really weird story, I guess I just don't understand the humor at all. I'd rather stop hearing about InfoWars entirely.
- ocdtrekkie 6mo agoBear in mind buying it to ruin it is a very real public service. Alex Jones was hoping a conservative ally would buy it and then just continue to let him do what he wants. Jokes aside, The Onion is basically spending a giant pile of money to burn the website down.
- busterarm 6mo agoI remember when The KLF burned a million quid. They were being internally consistent. It was artistically relevant. Most people thought they were insane. Bill Drummond wrote about how it strained his relationship with his kids. You can tell that he regrets it. Personally I think a million bucks to lease a domain name for a year is a really terrible business decision. You might be able to argue that it's going to victims but you could almost certainly just park that money into an interest-bearing account and do better for those victims. But it's also been obvious from the beginning (starting with Jones' own comments) that nobody really gives a shit about these families and they're just props in other peoples' theater show.
- quesera 6mo agoIf benefitting the victims is a goal, then clearly sending them money now is more valuable than sending them interest-borne money later. If the victims don't benefit from the money now, they can bear their own interest. Time-value, etc.
- ocdtrekkie 6mo agoI get the impression that beyond the money from the sale, the victims would very much like Alex Jones control of InfoWars to end. This accomplishes both of those things. I don't generally find The Onion that funny, and probably will never visit the new InfoWars, but I'm eternally grateful that they were willing to step in and do this. Because someone had to. A "good business decision" is to let Alex run his show if you buy the brand, but that's still a win for him. Not only would another owner likely allow Alex Jones to continue to operate, but The Onion can truly salt the earth around Alex Jones' business. If they own the InfoWars trademarks... if they own The Alex Jones Show as a trademark? They can potentially shut down Alex Jones' future works if they violate InfoWars' trademarks and intellectual property. They can sue him if he says something defamatory about the new InfoWars. One of the perks here is that The Onion is well-versed in free speech rights, intellectual property rights, and trademark law. They already have lawyers good at this stuff. The Onion can be a truly significant thorn in Jones' side, the way most other outcomes for this could not. I'm guessing the new site won't be that funny, but thankfully I don't really care about the "art".
- djgleebs 6mo agoThe Onion running Infowars sounds objectively less entertaining even if you believe EVERYTHING Alex says is a lie.
- sleepybrett 6mo agoalex, apparently, has set up a fall back channel. He's gotta keep hocking those dr. jones naturals boner pills to the boomers.
- sph 6mo agoAlex Jones is much more entertaining if you imagine he's just really into Warhammer 40K lore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZuYt1QlzMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZuYt1QlzMw
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- exogeny 6mo agoDo you think there is an acceptable third option between "the globalists winning" and "it is OK for a single media outlet to wage a war on the grieving parents of the victims of a mass murder"?
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- justin66 6mo agoWho cares what exogany says about it when actual juries have ruled on the matter?
- rsingel 6mo agoYou can read the defamation complaint. Sure looks like Jones did way more than talk about other people's theories. https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct-31-2018-Lewis-Original-Petition.pdf https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct...
- thrance 6mo agoMy comment was just a silly joke, reusing some of Jones phrasing. I never fully grasped who "the globalists" were in his mind, and why they were seemingly behind everything he dislikes, but I always found if funny. I'm just happy he lost his platform, and I find the Onion's piece rather amusing. I thought I could add to it with this dumb joke but I forgot about the fact that Jones still has a sizeable following, and it's sometimes hard to tell if someone is just kidding or an insane lunatic. I'm in the former camp (I hope).
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- netcan 6mo ago>With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a website. This is hilarious.
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- wat10000 6mo agoThe amount of the judgment seems reasonable for years of harassment against a bunch of people, all done for a profit, plus a bunch of egregious misbehavior in court.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 6mo agoReasonable by what metric? I've seen judgements that are tiny fractions of this for corporate crimes that affects hundreds or thousands of people. Is it reasonable because Alex Jones can afford it (hint: he can't, not even if he wasn't hiding his money)? This judgement ends up being more akin to punishing him by forcing him off of his platform, which is actually unconstitutional even for a shitbag like him.
- micromacrofoot 6mo agothose judgements should be higher too I think this one was high because alex jones harassed parents of murdered children to the point where they had to move out of the town their children were buried in. These people were harassed to the point of being afraid to visit the graves of their children. Sometimes examples need to be set in egregious cases.
- mothballed 6mo agoAlex Jones did not, as far as the evidence we have seen, harass the parents. Alex Jones did not direct anyone to harass the parents. Some of his viewers used Jones' statements as justification for harassments. Interestingly, as far as I know, nothing was pursued against the people harassing the parents. They went after the rich guy saying lies they didn't like, then depended on the fact no one besides the defense wants to side with someone who says such shockingly vicious lies about the facts surrounding dead kids.
- falcor84 6mo ago> Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website. I love that. Like a familiar smell, it triggered in me a long lost memory of the old hacker ethos.
- Kye 6mo agoFinally, competition for Clickhole.
- jakedata 6mo ago"Tu Stultus Es" "Drugs Win Drug War" "History Sighs, Repeats Itself" and of course... "SICKOS"
- micromacrofoot 6mo agoWorth highlighting: > “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer who argued the Connecticut families’ case in court. The deal with The Onion promises “to significantly degrade his power to do that.” > The Onion also plans to sell merchandise and share the proceeds with the Sandy Hook families. Great work by all on this effort.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI reallyyyyy want a gay frogs t-shirt, I would wear the hell out of that. That entire rant and meme it spawned is the only good thing to come out of that man
- throwawaymobule 6mo agoneongrizzly.com (Erik of internet comment etiquette's webstore) has had a gay frog shirt for years, if you're interested. Having an official infowars one without giving Jones any money might be more appealing though.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoyeah, I was pretty sure they already existed (and if not I have a printer and some tshirt iron ons) but thought an official one would be funny
- ABoredBirb 6mo agoHere you go https://neongrizzly.com/products/copy-of-rainbow-gay-frog-hooded-sweatshirt https://neongrizzly.com/products/copy-of-rainbow-gay-frog-ho...
- DANmode 5mo agoBecause it brought attention to the endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have been allowed to be dumped into our water supply, right?
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- nemomarx 6mo agoDoes it seem like he has a plan to fight the acquisition again this time?
- weberer 6mo agoThey somehow cut off the ability for him to pay rent for his current studio, so he's moving to another one at the end of this month. He's also switching his domain from infowars.com to alexjones.network. Apparently that site and thealexjonesstore.com are owned by a third party so it can't be taken as part of the bankruptcy case. The people suing him also want to claim his likeness entirely but that's unlikely to make it past the 13th amendment. He also claims that Michael Bloomberg is bankrolling the entire case against him.
- onychomys 6mo agoI thought the entire point of all of this was that I no longer needed to care what Alex Jones thinks about literally anything.
- weberer 6mo agoYou're always free to not click on things you don't want to watch.
- tootie 6mo agoAlex Jones is a professional liar and is adjudicated as such. What he has to say should rightly be disregarded.
- balozi 6mo agoA half decent Board of Directors at The Onion mothership would have asked the question: Is this what we should be spending time and money on?
- LastTrain 6mo agoYes, it is!
- shagie 6mo agoYes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-onion-became-one-of-the-strongest-voices-for-gun-control/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-onion-became-one-of-th... ( https://archive.is/hEJhg https://archive.is/hEJhg ) It is growing and containing its messaging that has been going on for over a decade about gun violence. From the article: > But on the topic of gun control and gun violence, it is a political issue that Onion staffers clearly, perhaps even deeply, care about. > Joe Garden, a former Onion writer and features editor who started working at the publication in the ’90s and left in 2012, told The Daily Beast that while most of the editorial staff tended to lean reliably liberal, their political satire was governed by being “against things that we thought were stupid.” > And as mass shootings increasingly became a tragic and appalling feature of the Obama era, it also became a subject that The Onion could not avoid covering all too routinely. “As more and more shootings happened, it became something that—as an organization that comments on the news—we couldn’t not write stories about…and it kept on growing and growing and growing to the point where [the problem of gun violence] just seemed overwhelming.” > “Any mass shooting is horrible, but when they just start happening just a few months [apart], it’s mind-boggling,” Garden continued. “And it’s terrifying that so little has been done about it.” This is very much in continuing that messaging and mission in the way that they know how.
- noelsusman 6mo agoThe Onion is owned by the billionaire founder of Twilio, there is no board of directors.
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- nxobject 6mo agoOh joy, the old Onion News Network is back! Welcome back, Jim Haggerty! Some beautiful examples below… —- Today Now!: Save Money By Taking A Vacation Entirely In Your Mind https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qYL_KT06-U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qYL_KT06-U Today Now! Host Undergoes Horrifically Painful Surgery Live On Air https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yR--35uqA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yR--35uqA How To Channel Your Road Rage Into Cold, Calculating Road Revenge https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuKnR8RvxHY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuKnR8RvxHY
- Sohcahtoa82 6mo agoMy favorite that I post every May 5th is Hurricane Ashley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQN5-Top6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQN5-Top6g
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- contextfree 6mo agoIt's called Global Tetrahedron but it has a dodecahedron as a logo/emblem (guessing intentional)
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- rsingel 6mo agohttps://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct-31-2018-Lewis-Original-Petition.pdf https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct...
- cosmicgadget 6mo agoI'll just go in order... This is because of a bankruptcy not social condemnation of dumb conspiracy theories. Bluesky doesn't compare to InfoWars, it is a peer of Twitter, Facebook, and the like. Jones was not targeted, he was sued by numerous people he did harm to. They won in multiple venues with multiple juries. I'm going to skip that last one.
- TheOtherHobbes 6mo agoThis is a very impressive satire on the Palantir manifesto. Accidental and ironic, but still impressive.
- htek 6mo agoI looked it up and was not surprised to see the rabid ramblings of a tech bro psychopath (but I repeat myself) with a drug addiction who gleefully admitted to wanting to hunt down Palantir's detractors with AI drones used to spray them with fentanyl-laced urine.
- narrator 6mo agoLike Scientology suing and taking over The Cult Awareness network.
- motbus3 6mo agoCan someone put me to speed on it? Who is the onion? Who is info wars? What is happening? I can't comprehend but it feels that I cannot really Google for it
- tootie 6mo agoThe Onion is a long standing satirical news site. They run crazy stories intended to make readers laugh. Infowars was a disinformation/conspiracy site that ran crazy headlines to outrage their audience. The owner of Infowars was sued into oblivion for saying the Sandy Hook school shooting was faked as a pretense to pass gun control. So now crazy conspiracy site is sold to satire site to help pay off the massive judgment against them. Basically a merger of the two fakest news sites on the Internet except now we can all just laugh.
- sophacles 5mo agoNot just for saying - for intentionally and provably lying about the victim's families for profit.
- dzhiurgis 6mo agoThe Onion used to be a humorous satire news site before wokenites took over.
- kypro 6mo agoPlease can someone correct my opinion on this because I'm sure I'm missing something. I find it crazy that in the US you can't take an opinion on something without risking being bankrupted because that thing you said is later proven untrue and that it hurt someone's feelings – feeling which in the US have a monetary value of billions apparently. I agree that the media should be evidence based and it's bad when the media is presenting things which are clearly false, but I also think that sometimes the evidence is misleading and speculation can be useful to get to the truth. Surely cases like this show that it's simply far too dangerous to report on something in the US which might both upset people and could later proven to be false? We have a similar issue in the UK where even when it's widely understood that someone is abusing kids, if they're famous our media basically can't say anything because they'll risk being sued. While our law is well intentioned, it seems that it really just suppresses the free exchange of information which has repeatedly led to harms against children. The speculation while often harmful is sometimes useful. I just feel like there's a middle ground here. Maybe you can sue, but perhaps your feelings are only worth a few hundred thousand pounds? I get the US is much richer than the UK but being sued for billions for being wrong and hurting peoples feelings just seems insane. And I agree Jones was completely wrong to have said what he said. Why am I wrong on this? I hate holding this opinion and would like it changed.
- bena 6mo agoAn opinion would be something like "I think it's good that those kids were shot". You could say that all day and people would not like you, but no one could do anything about it. What Alex Jones did was deny reality. He suggested that the victims did not exist. He suggested the event did not happen and the grieving parents were government-hired actors. He riled up his listeners and effectively sent them after people. He did this in spite of knowing what he was saying on his show was not true. That was a large part of things, that Alex Jones was aware he was spreading misinformation. Let's not pretend Alex Jones was doing was voicing a "difference of opinion".
- kypro 6mo ago> What Alex Jones did was deny reality. He suggested that the victims did not exist. He suggested the event did not happen and the grieving parents were government-hired actors. He riled up his listeners and effectively sent them after people. He did this in spite of knowing what he was saying on his show was not true. That was a large part of things, that Alex Jones was aware he was spreading misinformation. > Let's not pretend Alex Jones was doing was voicing a "difference of opinion". I agree. I'm disagreeing purely on whether $1 billion is a reasonable fine for deliberately lying. Not on whether he is guilty.
- dlev_pika 6mo agoThank you, Tetrahedron - you are the best possible end for that nasty site. Between this takeover, and Trump’s BRUTAL takedown of AJ a few days ago, karma seems to be catching up with that shit peddling, abusive bottom-feeder scum that is AJ. Here is to them eating each other, and choking on it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/knowledge-fight/id1192992870?i=1000761020744 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/knowledge-fight/id1192...
- sleepybrett 6mo agoI hope they invite the knowledge fight guys, a couple of podcasters who mock and debunk infowars, down to film a show in the infowars studio. They helped the sandy hook families legal with their case and are generally awesome guys.
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- roncinephile 6mo agoReanimating a corpse that was killed under suspicious circumstances, all while milking value out of a name someone else developed and cultivated for years. Frankenstein's monster wearing a skin-suit. I don't see the money in this outside of the freakshow factor. Everybody loves a freak show, but who wants to live there?
- classified 6mo agoIncidentally, this also describes the greater part of HN. AI made it possible.
- cindyllm 6mo ago[dead]