Something wrong at The Onion?

[Guest]

I know The Onion is now owned by some conglomerate media company, but it has been that way a while and it was still putting out consistently funny stuff. Don't know if it's a lull, but man it's not very good at the moment. There was always something about The Onion that just felt different that could be imitated but not duplicated (sorta like The Far Side). Now, the stuff just doesn't connect.

Umm, ok?

#3 on this list is kind of funny. #1-2 are just dumb and nonsensical. #4 is straight Babylon Bee garbage.

 

I guess #1 is a "Spring Training" joke? #2 is another dumb and nonsensical one.

Am I missing something?

Newsome's slicked-back look deserves to be poked fun at, but this is like the puking silver dollars headline. It just seems kind of immature and not very clever:

 

 

[TrashMaster G 17541]

The Onion has officially jumped the shark.

[Helobious 9456]

Website makes jokes I don’t like wwwaaaaa

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

The Onion has officially jumped the shark.

That's what I'm worried. If it has, that's a hell of a run.

[52-80 19147]

Same as SNL. Whatever clever original staff they had had long bolted and now its just a dried husk of its former self, staving off death with its decaying name recognition. 

[Guest]

Just now, 52-80 said:

Same as SNL. Whatever clever original staff they had had long bolted and now its just a dried husk of its former self, staving off death with its decaying name recognition. 

Well it's been around so long that I imagine that's happened several times over the years. And it's consistently been funny, even in recent years/months. Just something seems different now.

[Surly Bevo 24908]

The problem is when reality becomes as absurd as it has become you really have to stretch the bounds and go over the top.  No more room for subtle/snarky.....

[TrashMaster G 17541]

9 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The problem is when reality becomes as absurd as it has become you really have to stretch the bounds and go over the top.  No more room for subtle/snarky.....

[Pescado_Rojo 19413]

Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source. 

[cmontexas 3270]

Humor evolves, people get old

[Rimbo 25911]

55 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Well it's been around so long that I imagine that's happened several times over the years. And it's consistently been funny, even in recent years/months. Just something seems different now.

This is the best comparison. There's always been an ebb and flow to how funny it is and isn't. Even without staff and ownership changes, it's hard to be "on"all the time.

Those articles in the OP look perfectly average to me. Not any better or worse than is typical. But we remember the funniest jokes over time and forget how mediocre these things often are, day by day.

[Helobious 9456]

I mean they’re trying to put out 5-6 funny headlines or articles a day, just like they’ve been doing for years. It is literally impossible for them to all be funny. It’s no more or less funny than it’s ever been, OP just has selective memory

Edited January 22 by Helobious

[Macanudo 12975]

Not every day can have gems like these:

https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529

https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-navy-seal-1819583375

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source. 

This was my assumption as well. 

[Parliament 14237]

4 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source. 

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[HornOnTheBayou 8905]

13 hours ago, cmontexas said:

Humor evolves, people get old

Yep. It's the same reason you can tell someone's age by when they think that SNL stopped being funny.

[Guest]

14 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Half of those were probably written by ChatGPT using past Onion headlines as the training source. 

This has to be it. It's got that "feel" to it.

[ROFL BOX 6647]

I mean they’re trying to put out 5-6 funny headlines or articles a day, just like they’ve been doing for years. It is literally impossible for them to all be funny. It’s no more or less funny than it’s ever been, OP just has selective memory

Area man has mediocre opinions about once relevant and topically snarky satire / parody news(ish) site.

Turn to page 14 for continued coverage.

[beer 3220]

https://www.theonion.com/gop-voters-shrug-and-say-there-really-nothing-you-can-d-1851180465

[ajax 2604]

I like older Onion skits. The girl on the right has been in a few movies.