VP for the Bee gets BTFO after beef with botox beauty.

Onion used to be SO GOOD tho

Same with the hard times, but like 3 or so years ago the hard times writers all left or smth and it seems like one tryhard is writing under a bunch of aliases

In its heyday, the Onion was worth reading the article text and not just the headlines.

I think the nature of the online economy is that every content-creator eventually turns more and more into clickbait, over time. The way the web works in current year is that, with very few exceptions, you get paid for clicks and views, especially with anything text-based. Someone who clicks 20 links on your site in 10 minutes is worth 20x as much as someone who spends half an hour reading an in-depth, long-form investigative or analytical piece that took a lot of time and research to put together.

But even more, the algorithms, search engines, and aggregators all promote "hotness", stuff that gets lots of views, likes, shares, comments, upvotes QUICKLY. An article that takes 10 minutes to read is inherently disadvantaged over a meme that takes a second to process and retweet or upvote, regardless of quality or popularity, because a great meme has 10,000 shares before anyone has finished the first paragraph of a long-form piece of journ*lism.

So the internet rewards headlines, memes, and clickbait, and punishes in-depth content, at least in terms of text. Someone will eventually crack the code of how to monetize time spent on a page, without punishing the viewer with intrusive and obnoxious video ads. But until then, everything is just constantly devolving into clickbait.