Fantastic headline lol
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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This isn't The Onion's fault, but the world has gotten so stupid, I don't even know what this headline is suggesting anymore, or how things like "DOGE" and "LiteCoin" are actual words, spoken by real humans, who understand their meaning.
I'm waiting for the 2029 headlines that say:
"President Dollywap engages the fruitasmo thrusters to engage the roryxorp."
And other people will nod their heads, and say "Uh-huh, uh-huh, sure sure sure. I fully understand the severity of the situation."
But then The Onion will write a headline:
"President Dollywap removes the motortino thrashers to disengage the roryxorpilly."
And people will be like "Ha ha ha! Another quality zinger from The Onion! I mean, can you imagine? Disengaging the roryxorpillies??? Hoooo boy! What a day that would be! Dollywap would have some explaining to do!"
And another person would say "Dammit! I ate the onion on this one. I was real worried for a second...."
Meanwhile I would be like "Ya know what? Screw this. I'm turning off the tv. I'm cancelling the internet. It's been said that you can either watch the news and be misinformed, or not watch the news and be uninformed. Well I chose uninformed! The fucking lot of you have gone nuts, and I'm just going to go home and do the only sane thing I can think of......go build lego sets in my underwear.
How is this not upvoted to the moon??? Who can't relate to this comic, with or without context?
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You're on the edge. You're going into too much detail for satire or parody.
Focus less on the "who", and replace that with more generalized statements. Speaking directly to how something could possibly happen sort of misses the comedic point. You don't need it to be realistic unless you're actually performing it. This is text, and absurd ideas would be better read.
Even performed, you don't have to be this specific. This is why the "modern" redditwritesseinfelds don't work so often imo. They go way too specific and make jokes about individual apps, or devices. I can only think of one Seinfeld episode that really relied on any technology beyond a car or a phone call, and it was the one where they had to swap voicemail tapes, which was mostly physical comedy anyway
It's gotta be about the human experience first! Too many proper nouns just confuses the plot
Both of you make really good points, and I feel using blockchain would fix these issues in my posts.
I think you could have taken it even one step further into abstraction, and said that this new office would be run by, like, Amway (or whatever ponzi scheme seems most culturally relevant)
That way, it's specific, but to evoke, just, general scamminess