A couple of geniuses created the On1on, a parody/not-parody news site that parodies the parody news site the Onion. Confused yet? The On1oncompiles real news stories that are ridiculous enough to appear on the satire site, then packages them in a format that’s nearly identical to the Onion‘s. The site appears to automatically populate with content from Reddit’s “Not The Onion” topic.
Some sample headlines from today, from both the Onion and the On1on: “Gun Activists Warn Obama is Raising a Private Black Army to Massacre White Americans,” “Apartment Dwellers Fear Giant Icicle,” Somber Red Carpet Moment As ‘In Memoriam’ Coffins Wheeled Into The Auditorium,” “Jerry Buss Surprisingly Leaves Entire Estate To Former Laker Luke Walton,”and “Homeless Man Sues Parents for Not Loving Him Enough.”
“Soon enough I won't have to deal with any of you fuckers," quoth President of the Cooper Union Jamshed Bharucha on the fake CooperUnion.Biz website. The rest is an Onion-esque spectacle echoing the students' dismay that for the first time in 154 years, Cooper Union plans to charge tuition. It just really needs updates. At…
Yesterday, the New York Police Department did a very dumb thing. Using the hashtag #myNYPD, the department asked New Yorkers to share their photos of New York's finest on Twitter. What happened next was utterly predictable. Activists seized upon the moment to show the NYPD for the violent, megalomaniacal, often racist…
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who supported the Eric Garner protests and has admitted to smoking weed, continues to be a man of the people. On Tuesday afternoon, he performed a dramatic reading of an Onion article that gently mocked his preparedness for a storm that never arrived in New York…
