'Beautiful joke': The Onion finally reaches another deal to take over Infowars - Raw Story
6 months ago by slothrop to c/nottheonion
If the licensing agreement receives court approval, The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site satirizing its conspiratorial origins, and comedian Tim Heidecker has been hired as creative director.
This brings me so much joy.
Its free real estate
Watch the Trial of Tim Heidecker and then clips from Alex’s trial and it’s spot on. If the Trial of Tim Heidecker hadn’t came out first, you would have sworn it was a parody of Alex.
If the Trial of Tim Heidecker hadn’t came out first, you would have sworn it was a parody of Alex.
To be honest, I still can't tell the difference.
Probably because those two links are exactly the same. (Happens to the best of us.)
Fixed. Darn phone crashes when I change tabs.
Alex Jones has not commented on the Onion’s new plan to take over Infowars.
Heh
He probably has on his own show by now. He does it all the time. Sometimes obliquely, blaming the Deep State for his misery and such.
Knowledge Fight did an episode about Tucker Carlson last week because Jones hasn't been on the air. Dude's probably too busy drinking his local Costco out of Kirkland brand vodka to comment on this.
Him finally bending over crying because of this? I guess we could drink to that 🥂 But it's more likely he'll pop up again and do his usual grift, with slightly less gusto.
BTW, I think Fucker Carlson deserves KF's scrutiny. He's calmer, but somehow that makes him even worse. I saw people (almost) defending him right here in the fediverse. Maybe it was on .ml
I don't doubt you're right but it would be foolish of him to draw attention to the fact he was sued for one of his biggest lies. He's an awful excuse for a human being but he's not stupid
it would be foolish of him
That's basically his middle name.
I guess you never listened to his show. TBF, I only do it through KnowledgeFight.
This is quite a paradox. It's a true story, not satire, meaning that it does belong on /c/nottheonion; and I would indeed look at the headline and think "That has got to be a story from The Onion, America's Finest News Source." But it's definitely about the satire newspaper and website The Onion, which is explicitly what this community is not about. It says so in the name!
Seems like we both do and don't, which is the best possible outcome I think.
It's about The Onion, not in The Onion.
Still alliacious.
Ah, new word unlocked.
Alliaceous is an adjective meaning to resemble, smell, or taste like garlic or onions. It often describes plants belonging to the Allium genus, such as leeks, chives, and shallots, which are characterized by their pungent, pungent, and savory scent.
Thank you, saved me the trouble of looking it up! There's a word I'll probably never find occasion to use.
Sorry, yeah. I'm using it to mean "of or relating to onions."
They're pungent and pungent!
It's technically about Global Tetrahedron acquiring InfoWars along side of its other property The Onion.
So we're safely in nottheonion territory but don't try to post this in notglobaltetrahedron.
I have decided by fiat that it is, in fact, une pipe.
If it's a pipe, then let's see you try to smoke something out of it
Run for your lives!
theonion.info has all you need to know.
Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.
😆
The fact this deal was ever able to be blocked in the first place is indisputable proof that the law has always been on the side of the fascists.
What?
The Onion's parent company, Global Tetrahedron, won a 2024 bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, but a judge voided those results, saying their was a lack of transparency in the deal.
If the licensing agreement receives court approval, The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site satirizing its conspiratorial origins, and comedian Tim Heidecker has been hired as creative director.
“I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” said Heidecker, one of the creative forces behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
If I was The Onion, I would not have announced this. I would have slowly started slipping normal sane reporting into the site until it was fully converted. I’m guessing those visitors probably haven’t seen truthful news in awhile.
Does this fit for NotTheOnion? It specifically is The Onion. Not complaining or anything, just had the thought.
I guess that means we're done?
And it's got layers... like an onion.
I'm pretty sure this article is a paradox.
Perhaps they are coming in as a Shallot?
do you seriously not use an adblocker?
You might be able to go into the settings and set it to use your default browser instead of using their own.
Nope.. there's no setting for that in Voyager. I've been down this path before, and someone sent a screenshot showing that option but it seems to only exist on the IOS lemmy build, not Android
Edit: I meant voyager, not lemmy
Edit2: the option is missing from the PWA version of voyager - install the play store Android app instead.
How long do you think it'll take the people who visit the site to realize it's satire now? If ever?
Only if the onion starts turning the frogs gay
What if they start giving the gay frogs conversion therapy
Depends. Which bathroom are they using, and is there an Inspector Genital on staff?
ive never watched a frog go to the bathroom. ive watched a bear go to the bathroom. only cost 6 bucks
I pray to Jah that this really happens.
license the Infowars website and its associated intellectual property from Gregory Milligan, who was appointed by a bankruptcy court to manage the website, for $1,800 a month
So the money goes to the victims, right?
and Jones could appeal any ruling
nooooooooo!
The deal was made with the victims consent. I think more than the money, the goal is to get him to leave them alone, which requires de platforming because he just won’t fucking stop. He continues to defame the victims on air pretty routinely.
He continues to defame the victims on air pretty routinely.
I listen to the KnowledgeFight podcast for well over a year and never heard them comment on that.
He's doing the same shit to others, yes, but I think he's too scared to continue down that specific path. Also, and with all due respect to the victims, the Sandy Hook murders won't help to sell his grift anymore.
He's talking shit about the procedings though.
Somebody called him "not stupid". I don't think I agree with that.
I listen to Knowledge Fight too, and I’m pretty sure there was the whole bit about him not pissing on the kids graves. Maybe you can count that more on the talking shit about court proceedings, but I’m pretty sure there have been multiple times I’ve heard since the court rulings that he’s also suggested the dad of one of the victims was intellectually disabled within the last year.
The New York times article actually says $81,000:
On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’ Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in a court filing. Under the terms, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, would pay $81,000 a month to license Infowars.com and its associated intellectual property — such as its name — for an initial six months, with an option to renew for another six months.
Who do they pay the licensing fee to?
Good question. From what I gather from infowar's wikipedia article I guess it will be paid to infowar's parent company which owns the IP. Before The Onion showed interest in acquiring infowars, the company was supposed to be liquidated with most of the proceeds going to the Sandy Hook families.
So why is the Onion licensing it from them when they could have bought it during the liquidation?
I wonder if Alex jones was once legit and then got psyoped by the government to become crazy.
Maybe he had a steaming hot bowl of spicy chili that night.
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