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12-Year-Old Spends Entire Hiking Trip Fantasizing About Which Video Game He’ll Play When He Gets Home (www.theonion.com)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait, why did they post real content?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If the Onion stopped posting satire and just started posting actual "human interest" stories and quotes from insane people on Facebook, how would we know?

How long could they get away with it?

[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Part of me thinks they already do haha