The Onion
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
The Onion is a satirical newspaper with a presence both IRL and OTI.
As with old media comedy show "Saturday Night Live," everyone likes to reminisce about a time "back when the Onion was funny." The Onion was funny five years ago, or when you were a junior in high school, whichever was longer ago.
While the Onion can be entertaining, essentially it's the product of frat boys from Madison Wisconsin who are somewhat aware of the world around them, but who are still fucks who'd never make it in New York if they hadn't started their own newspaper. Within its chosen sphere the Onion succeeds, but when folks there want to get beyond that range it Fails. See the scene in "The Aristocrats" where the folks at the Onion get a chance at writing their own version of the epic joke for documentation of these incontrovertible facts. See Madison Wisconsin to see how basement dwelling they actually are. You have to be pretty pathetic to go from frat boy to basement dweller.
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Even though The Onion is desperately old meme, there are still people on the internets who don't know that it's not a real newspaper. These people can be effectively trolled by sending them Onion articles. For slightly smarter people, copy-pasting an Onion article into an email or blog post while leaving out identifying information works well. Fortunately, there are people out there just dumb enough to not realize that The Onion is indeed satirical, often ending in epic lulz for those who know the joke.
The canonical example of Onion-trolling occurred when Christian pro-life blogger "Pete," of March Together for Life, ran across an article called "I'm Totally Psyched About This Abortion!" and mistook it for reality. He wrote a ridiculous post about how awful young women are these days and how abortion has created a culture of murder in our country and other serious business.
When people called him on it, he got butthurt and claimed that women really do think that way, and then he tried to claim he did it for the lulz, but eventually he gave up and went back to harassing people about baby-killing.
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