Clickhole: Devastating. This Guy Knows Exactly How Black People Should Act Around Police Officers, But He Has No Black Friends To Tell About It
The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men killed by police officers last week, have sent a wave of mourning across America. What makes these deaths even more painful is that they could have been prevented by Stuart Farren, a 43-year-old Indianapolis resident who after diligent consideration has figured out exactly how black Americans should act when confronted by police officers. Sadly, although Farren possesses the secrets for how black people can survive police encounters, he tragically has no black friends with whom he can share his wisdom.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
This struck me as a piece that something that could have been funny and/or meaningful had it been given to someone with defter or more subtle skills (say, someone at the Onion), but somehow managed to miss both marks pretty badly.Report
It’s almost like, the content of the article is pointless. The headline is all you really need for the joke. The rest will be too “on the nose.”
This would have made a better “thinkpiecebot” headline.
Actually, I think this happens a lot with Onion articles. The first paragraph or so are funny, but past that they just repeat the same joke.Report
This is a liability with Onion articles. Some of them are more like Ironic Times titles, where there’s really just not much more to say.Report
I almost always just read The Onion’s headlines. They’re brilliant and concise. You usually can’t add much more than a tag line to them, even if you have a few paragraphs.
It’s almost like the opposite of a regular newspaper, where the headlines are usually bullshit eyeball-bait and often don’t even fully agree with the article underneath them.Report
Another place with hillarious fake headlines is the duffle blog.Report
“China builds artificial island in middle of Pearl Harbor”
I like it.Report
The Onion writes articles behind the headlines?
Hell, I get my biggest Onion fix from “Literally Unbelievable” – which is a collection of captured re-tweets of Onion articles, some of which are almost certainly not faked.Report
I dunno. The click hole is a really good parody of what people say on the Internet and the other futile nature of Internet arguments.Report
I don’t know-
I invoke Poe’s Law to assert that the article reads very, very similar to actual comments I have seen online.
Stripped of context, I bet you could get this run at NRO.Report
@chip-daniels — Oh no doubt. But that’s what we mean by “on the nose.” The humor is all in the headline. After that, it is “predictable white guy” template. Anyone could write the body of the article. It has no humor nor surprise.
The headline made me laugh my ass off.
Contrast with this: http://www.realtruenews.org/single-post/2016/06/28/PURGE-Obama-Fires-Generals-Clears-Way-For-Diversity
That’s fake news with the humor in the body. Plus, there are jokes inside the jokes.Report
So would this be an example of “whitesplaining”? 🙂Report
Something I should know but don’t. Is “clickhole” actually The Onion, or is it just something like The Onion?Report
I think it’s “By the people who bring you The Onion”.Report
The Clickhole is the Onion’s parody of social mediaReport