Whether this is satire, or the "give us $1 or else" article is, or they're both dead serious... this is peak Onion.
In an age where reality is such bullshit that real life articles sound more like The Onion than The Onion, it is exactly what we need. I embrace our new deeply layered pungent overlords.
I hope this goes as well as it's being marketed to be, but I've long since stopped trusting people who have enough money to make a news-worthy purchase. Time will tell on this one for me.
this was my first tought. the discourse is also the same every time: oh we wont change anything about it! proceeds to change everything about it for the worse
The name Global Tetrahedron is, in true Onion fashion, a winking reference to a sinister fictional company featured in the book “Our Dumb Century,” which was written by The Onion’s staff and published in 1999.
I love that book. I often think about the article from 2000 about all the world's corporations merging into OmniCorps and how close that is to becoming a reality.
The onion should be a worker's collective given that the best satire comes from groups without ulterior motives and outside influences. No reason it should be possible for any company to lay off a majority of its workforce without fully going under and becoming a failed business.
Journalist formally of the daily beat and later NBC. NBC apparently pulled him from covering Twitter last year after he said something about about Elon on his personal social media accounts.
Clickhole started out good but was the beginning of the end of the Onion being one of the essential sites on the web. It was evidence that they were chasing the trends instead of creating them.
The movie was about 4 years previous. That was awful, but Clickhole was the beggining.