Admittedly, The Onion seemed to smash a home run when they decided to spoof the just reel-’em-in nature of Buzzfeed and its derivatives. They called the site Clickhole and a psychology experiment was born. The hypothesis: to test if people are dumb enough to follow a bunch of buzzy words just because they seem to pose a dynamic answer to life. The site started off strongly — a three hour video of a stick of butter doing nothing has over a million views, simply because it adds “You’ll Never Believe What Happens…” to the title. If every video could slurp up the views, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
I stumbled onto this topic because someone who ought to know better showed me a Clickhole video called “Lesbians Explain Sim City 4 Cheat Codes.” The whole joke is that that’s really all it is: no sexy stuff, no red lipstick and high heel caresses, just everyday run-of-the-mill lesbians explaining a topic I couldn’t care less about. Including my patronage, the video has only 3,883 views … and it’s been up for over 72 hours.
I would really like to think that you based some of your research on literally anything other than the regurgitation of of views on a cherry-picked video here or there, but instead I have ventured upon a clickbait website reporting on a satirical form of itself. This amount of meta is truly unheard of. I feel a bit sad for humanity, really.
I had actually written out a couple of paragraphs as to why I think your opinion is incorrect, but i then noticed that you put less time and effort into your fucking article critiquing someone else’s work than they actually did writing it to begin with, so, here:
“hurr fuckin gay lol _not viral = not impressive_ LOL 😛 dank memes 2015”
you taking any type of onion media seriously (save AV Club) means you’ve already lost. they don’t want or expect you to get it, there is no underlying political bullshit, it’s funny and is often hypocritical. Even on itself. It constantly contradicts consistently and doesn’t dispute this.