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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

We've been getting some weird posts lately that... Well, they're not making me think it's gotta be an Onion headline, that's for sure.

So just a little refresher. Posts should be:

  1. Links to news stories from…
  2. …credible sources, with…
  3. …their original headlines, that…
  4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

If it's not Onion-y, it doesn't belong here. Bizarre, horrific, and violent news can be here if the headline reads like something out of The Onion, but if it doesn't, it's going away. And if there's too much non-Onion-like content from an account, that account is going away, too.

If you're not sure whether the real news headline you've found is like The Onion, here's a few sample Onion headlines from today:

  • "Visiting Friend Pleasantly Surprised By City’s Open Hostility Toward Homeless People"
  • "Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once"
  • "Man Feels Like Bystanders Are Arguing For Him To Put Gun Down In Bad Faith"
  • "Wally The Emotional Support Alligator Went To See The Phillies"
  • ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

See? Find headlines from real news outlets that remind you of headlines like those. And just to prove my point: One of them is real.

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Glad the Phillies were more welcoming to Wally than the Pirates.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

Can you blame them? Pirates have a fraught history with Crocodilia.

[-] Summzashi@lemmy.one 11 points 8 months ago

Thank you. The amount of regular American politics here got waaaaay out of hand.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Yeah, although the real trigger for this was the Uttar Pradesh posts. They had zero Onion-y content.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

ah, yes, the real one is the omnipotent trans person

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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