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* {{Trope Namer|s}}: Parody Newspaper Names Following Tropes:
** {{Bulungi}}
** ManicPixieDreamGirl: Named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club. He'd come to regret that.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Though the article "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" was reposted to Twitter in the midst of the Covid pandemic and quickly spread by despairing victims, it was actually published back in 2000, and the story has nothing to do with the loss brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.



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** "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-consults-internet-whenever-possible,1515/ Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible"]], written in 2000, is supposed to be a satire of people who are obsessed with the Internet. Area Man uses the Internet to do things like check on movie showtimes, look up word definitions, and find food recipes. Within a short few years, people everywhere would use the internet for stuff like that all the time.
** Inevitable in articles on political figures when they're out of office, such as UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, UsefulNotes/BarackObama or UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
** The column "[[https://www.theonion.com/when-youre-feeling-low-just-remember-ill-be-dead-in-ab-1819584806 When You're Feeling Low, Just Remember I'll Be Dead in About 15 or 20 Years]]", "written" by UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, reads quite a bit differently after Trump ascended to the presidency, just under four years after it was published, and made it much more difficult for him to disappear into history.[[note]]The "unmistakable physical and mental deterioration by 2020" part, on the other hand, is quite prescient, as his presidency was dogged among other things by questions of his health and possible senility, especially after he caught COVID-19 in the last few months of his term.[[/note]]
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** The column "[[https://www.theonion.com/when-youre-feeling-low-just-remember-ill-be-dead-in-ab-1819584806 When You're Feeling Low, Just Remember I'll Be Dead in About 15 or 20 Years]]", "written" by UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, reads quite a bit differently after Trump ascended to the presidency, just under four years after it was published.

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** The column "[[https://www.theonion.com/when-youre-feeling-low-just-remember-ill-be-dead-in-ab-1819584806 When You're Feeling Low, Just Remember I'll Be Dead in About 15 or 20 Years]]", "written" by UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, reads quite a bit differently after Trump ascended to the presidency, just under four years after it was published.published, and made it much more difficult for him to disappear into history.[[note]]The "unmistakable physical and mental deterioration by 2020" part, on the other hand, is quite prescient, as his presidency was dogged among other things by questions of his health and possible senility, especially after he caught COVID-19 in the last few months of his term.[[/note]]
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Though the tearjerker article "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" was reposted to Twitter in the midst of the Covid pandemic and quickly spread by despairing victims, it was actually first written in 2000, and the story has nothing to do with the loss brought by quarantine.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: Though the tearjerker article "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" was reposted to Twitter in the midst of the Covid pandemic and quickly spread by despairing victims, it was actually first written published back in 2000, and the story has nothing to do with the loss brought by quarantine.the COVID-19 pandemic.
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** Inevitable in articles on political figures when they're out of office, such as UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush or UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

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** Inevitable in articles on political figures when they're out of office, such as UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, UsefulNotes/BarackObama or UsefulNotes/BarackObama.UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Though the tearjerker article "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" was reposted to Twitter in the midst of the Covid pandemic and quickly spread by despairing victims, it was actually first written in 2000, and the story has nothing to do with the loss brought by quarentine.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: Though the tearjerker article "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" was reposted to Twitter in the midst of the Covid pandemic and quickly spread by despairing victims, it was actually first written in 2000, and the story has nothing to do with the loss brought by quarentine.quarantine.
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** The column "[[https://www.theonion.com/when-youre-feeling-low-just-remember-ill-be-dead-in-ab-1819584806 When You're Feeling Low, Just Remember I'll Be Dead in About 15 or 20 Years]]", "written" by UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, reads quite a bit differently after Trump ascended to the presidency, just under four years after it was published.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: Though the tearjerker article "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" was reposted to Twitter in the midst of the Covid pandemic and quickly spread by despairing victims, it was actually first written in 2000, and the story has nothing to do with the loss brought by quarentine.



** ManicPixieDreamGirl: Named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club.

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** ManicPixieDreamGirl: Named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club. He'd come to regret that.
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* CreatorBacklash: In 2019, after UsefulNotes/JoeBiden launched his 2020 presidential bid, Joe Garden, who wrote the 2009 article "[[https://politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732 Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway]]" regretting writing it, saying [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwngb3/area-man-regrets-helping-turn-joe-biden-into-a-meme "Instead of viciously skewering a public figure who deserved scrutiny, we let him off easy. The joke was funny, but it didn’t hit hard enough."]].

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* CreatorBacklash: In 2019, after UsefulNotes/JoeBiden launched his 2020 presidential bid, bid amidst multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, Joe Garden, who wrote the 2009 article "[[https://politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732 Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway]]" regretting writing it, saying [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwngb3/area-man-regrets-helping-turn-joe-biden-into-a-meme "Instead of viciously skewering a public figure who deserved scrutiny, we let him off easy. The joke was funny, but it didn’t hit hard enough."]].

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-consults-internet-whenever-possible,1515/ Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible"]], written in 2000, is supposed to be a satire of people who are obsessed with the Internet. Area Man uses the Internet to do things like check on movie showtimes, look up word definitions, and find food recipes. Within a short few years, people everywhere would use the internet for stuff like that all the time.

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"[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-consults-internet-whenever-possible,1515/ Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible"]], written in 2000, is supposed to be a satire of people who are obsessed with the Internet. Area Man uses the Internet to do things like check on movie showtimes, look up word definitions, and find food recipes. Within a short few years, people everywhere would use the internet for stuff like that all the time.time.
** Inevitable in articles on political figures when they're out of office, such as UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush or UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: ''Close Range'' is a game that consists of nothing more than [[BoomHeadshot shooting people in the face]].
* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion, ''The Hard Times'', which is the Punk Rock Onion, and by extension ''Hard Drive'', a SpinOff which is the Video Game Onion.)
* LifeImitatesArt: Several examples, but one will suffice for now. 2004: ''The Onion'' runs a faux editorial, [[https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades"]], in which Gillette's CEO at the time, James Kilts, supposedly "announces" that the company will introduce a five-blade razor. 2005: Cue Gillette introducing the Fusion, a five-blade razor. With the real-life Kilts [[https://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/gillette/ comparing it to a Ferrari]].



** ManicPixieDreamGirl: named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club.
* {{Defictionalization}}: ''Close Range'' is a game that consists of nothing more than [[BoomHeadshot shooting people in the face]].
* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion, ''The Hard Times'', which is the Punk Rock Onion, and by extension ''Hard Drive'', a SpinOff which is the Video Game Onion.)
* LifeImitatesArt: Several examples, but one will suffice for now. 2004: ''The Onion'' runs a faux editorial, [[https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades"]], in which Gillette's CEO at the time, James Kilts, supposedly "announces" that the company will introduce a five-blade razor. 2005: Cue Gillette introducing the Fusion, a five-blade razor. With the real-life Kilts [[https://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/gillette/ comparing it to a Ferrari]].

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** ManicPixieDreamGirl: named Named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club.
* {{Defictionalization}}: ''Close Range'' is a game that consists of nothing more than [[BoomHeadshot shooting people in the face]].
* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion, ''The Hard Times'', which is the Punk Rock Onion, and by extension ''Hard Drive'', a SpinOff which is the Video Game Onion.)
* LifeImitatesArt: Several examples, but one will suffice for now. 2004: ''The Onion'' runs a faux editorial, [[https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades"]], in which Gillette's CEO at the time, James Kilts, supposedly "announces" that the company will introduce a five-blade razor. 2005: Cue Gillette introducing the Fusion, a five-blade razor. With the real-life Kilts [[https://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/gillette/ comparing it to a Ferrari]].
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* LifeImitatesArt: Several examples, but one will suffice for now. 2004: ''The Onion'' runs a faux editorial, [[https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades"]], in which Gillette's CEO at the time, James Kilts, supposedly "announces" that the company will introduce a five-blade razor. 2005: Cue Gillette introducing the Fusion, a five-blade razor. With the real-life Kilts [[https://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/gillette/ comparing it to a Ferrari]].
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* CreatorBacklash: In 2019, after UsefulNotes/JoeBiden launched his 2020 presidential bid, Joe Garden, who wrote the 2009 article "[[https://politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732 Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway]]" regretting writing it, saying "[[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwngb3/area-man-regrets-helping-turn-joe-biden-into-a-meme Instead of viciously skewering a public figure who deserved scrutiny, we let him off easy. The joke was funny, but it didn’t hit hard enough.]]"

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* CreatorBacklash: In 2019, after UsefulNotes/JoeBiden launched his 2020 presidential bid, Joe Garden, who wrote the 2009 article "[[https://politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732 Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway]]" regretting writing it, saying "[[https://www.[[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwngb3/area-man-regrets-helping-turn-joe-biden-into-a-meme Instead "Instead of viciously skewering a public figure who deserved scrutiny, we let him off easy. The joke was funny, but it didn’t hit hard enough.]]" "]].
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* CreatorBacklash: In 2019, after UsefulNotes/JoeBiden launched his 2020 presidential bid, Joe Garden, who wrote the 2009 article "[[https://politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732 Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway]]" regretting writing it, saying "[[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwngb3/area-man-regrets-helping-turn-joe-biden-into-a-meme Instead of viciously skewering a public figure who deserved scrutiny, we let him off easy. The joke was funny, but it didn’t hit hard enough.]]"
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* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion, or ''The Hard Times'', which is the Punk Rock Onion.)

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* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion, or ''The Hard Times'', which is the Punk Rock Onion, and by extension ''Hard Drive'', a SpinOff which is the Video Game Onion.)
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* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion.)

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* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion, or ''The Hard Times'', which is the Punk Rock Onion.)

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* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion.)



* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion.)
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* {{Defictionalization}}: [[http://www.closerangegame.com/ Play the demo of "Close Range"]], the game that consists of nothing more than [[BoomHeadshot shooting people in the face]].

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* {{Defictionalization}}: [[http://www.closerangegame.com/ Play the demo of "Close Range"]], the ''Close Range'' is a game that consists of nothing more than [[BoomHeadshot shooting people in the face]].
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I... don't see how this is a Jossed example. Anyway, Lost Forever was being misused, as it's a videogame trope where content is permanently inaccessible until you start over or save scum.


** Jossed - The link no longer works, LostForever
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* FollowTheLeader: Has spawned or inspired ''many'' similar faux-news sites. (For example, ''The Babylon Bee'', which is basically the Christian Onion.)
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** Jossed - The link no longer works, LostForever
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-consults-internet-whenever-possible,1515/ Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible"]], written in 2000, is supposed to be a satire of people who are obsessed with the Internet. Area Man uses the Internet to do things like check on movie showtimes, look up word definitions, and find food recipes. Within a short few years, people everywhere would use the internet for stuff like that all time time.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-consults-internet-whenever-possible,1515/ Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible"]], written in 2000, is supposed to be a satire of people who are obsessed with the Internet. Area Man uses the Internet to do things like check on movie showtimes, look up word definitions, and find food recipes. Within a short few years, people everywhere would use the internet for stuff like that all time the time.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-consults-internet-whenever-possible,1515/ Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible"]], written in 2000, is supposed to be a satire of people who are obsessed with the Internet. Area Man uses the Internet to do things like check on movie showtimes, look up word definitions, and find food recipes. Within a short few years, people everywhere would use the internet for stuff like that all time time.

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** ManicPixieDreamGirl: named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club.



** ManicPixieDreamGirl: named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: [[http://www.closerangegame.com/ Play the demo of "Close Range"]], the game that consists of nothing more than [[BoomHeadshot shooting people in the face]].
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* {{Trope Namer|s}}: Parody Newspaper Names Following Tropes:
** {{Bulungi}}
** ManicPixieDreamGirl: named by Nathan Rabin in the AV Club.

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