What I can't understand is that The Onion's YouTube channel[1] has 2.5 million subscribers and a billion views. You'd think they be able to do something with that amount of eyeballs.
The onion's most viewed videos are from over a decade ago when they put actual effort into their content. Now their most recent videos get a few thousand views whereas their older content used to get a few million.
The quality of their content has really fallen off a cliff and their sarcastic political takes are usually pretty dumb now.
The Onion circa 2012 was a trip. It's wild, given how much streaming video has grown in the decade since, just how much they left on the table abandoning such gems as Today Now, ONN News, Onion Talks (their devastating spoof of TED), and more.
And then there's OH1, with perhaps the most brilliantly surreal pop-culture satire of this century, Sex House.
The actress who played one of the two morning-show anchors went back to her original career as a pilot, presumably because it's a more reliable paycheck. I presume that she wouldn't have done that had The Onion continued with its videos, which indeed were amazing a decade ago.
Didn't the onion videos die because of inflated view counts reported by Facebook Videos? IIRC there were some fairly expensive settlements around that.
Is that what happened? I wonder if the same thing happened to CollegeHumor: Like The Onion, very popular YouTube videos (as measured by views) a decade ago, then suddenly disappearing (again as measured by views).
The quality of their content has really fallen off a cliff and their sarcastic political takes are usually pretty dumb now.