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by brodouevencode 1746 days ago
> By 2022 the last vestiges of reality dissolve. The Onion becomes the newspaper of record, only to be supplanted by an “Onion” version of The Onion, which makes the original Onion look “totally lame.”

Soothsayer!

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That consumers of news parody understand the what's going on in the world better than people who consume what is ostensibly straight news dates back at least to 2004.

On top of that, "Daily Show" viewers know more about election issues than people who regularly read newspapers or watch television news, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey.

https://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/28/comedy.politics/

There's something about this concept that seems so realistically appealing to gen z to me.

I guess to some degree this is what clickhole already is.