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** One article suggests [[https://babylonbee.com/news/10-exciting-kids-shows-coming-soon-to-daily-wire-plus article suggests suggests]] an American made MoralSubstitute to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' for Creator/{{Bentkey}} with ''more patriotic American accents''. A few weeks later, WesternAnimation/ChipChilla was a launch title for the platform.

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** One article suggests [[https://babylonbee.com/news/10-exciting-kids-shows-coming-soon-to-daily-wire-plus article suggests suggests]] an American made MoralSubstitute to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' for Creator/{{Bentkey}} with ''more patriotic American accents''. A few weeks later, WesternAnimation/ChipChilla was a launch title for the platform.
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** One article suggests [[https://babylonbee.com/news/10-exciting-kids-shows-coming-soon-to-daily-wire-plus article suggests suggests]] an American made MoralSubstitute to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' for Creator/{{Bentkey}} with ''more patriotic American accents'', which became WesternAnimation/ChipChilla.

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** One article suggests [[https://babylonbee.com/news/10-exciting-kids-shows-coming-soon-to-daily-wire-plus article suggests suggests]] an American made MoralSubstitute to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' for Creator/{{Bentkey}} with ''more patriotic American accents'', which became WesternAnimation/ChipChilla.accents''. A few weeks later, WesternAnimation/ChipChilla was a launch title for the platform.
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** One article suggests [[https://babylonbee.com/news/10-exciting-kids-shows-coming-soon-to-daily-wire-plus article suggests suggests]] an American made MoralSubstitute to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' for Creator/{{Bentkey}} with ''more patriotic American accents'', which became WesternAnimation/ChipChilla.
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* PeripheryDemographic: A substantial amount of left-leaning people and progressive Christians enjoy the ''Bee'', particularly in regards to how it mocks politicians and other figures all over the political spectrum.



* ValuesDissonance: Avoiding slipping fully into controversy, the humour is very heavily dependent on the listener being a firm right winger. Anyone with even slightly left-leaning tendencies is going to find it unfunny at best and actively insulting at worst.
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* ValuesDissonance: Avoiding slipping fully into controversy, the humour is very heavily dependent on the listener being a firm right winger. Anyone with even slightly left-leaning tendencies is going to find it unfunny at best and actively insulting at worst.

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* TearJerker: In [[https://youtu.be/4aymk4g1P9I "Companies Strangely Silent On Pride Month In The Middle East"]], The Babylon Bee News Desk reports on various companies displaying rainbow Twitter logos for Pride Month, but are disappointed to see their respective Twitter logos for the Middle East did not get the same treatment. But then they take solace in [[FauxSymbolism Skittles having a rainbow logo]] for the Middle East. Then they receive a new report that Skittles has been thrown off a roof in Saudi Arabia.

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In [[https://youtu.be/4aymk4g1P9I "Companies Strangely Silent On Pride Month In The Middle East"]], The Babylon Bee News Desk reports on various companies displaying rainbow Twitter logos for Pride Month, but are disappointed to see their respective Twitter logos for the Middle East did not get the same treatment. But then they take solace in [[FauxSymbolism Skittles having a rainbow logo]] for the Middle East. Then they receive a new report that Skittles has been thrown off a roof in Saudi Arabia.Arabia.
** [[https://youtu.be/1Hyx4a0Se7U "College Figures Out How To Discriminate Now That Affirmative Action Is Banned"]] has two college admission officers seeking out a black applicant stereotype an applicant named Aiden as white, and reject him. [[spoiler:The skit ends with Aiden, who is black, sadly telling his mother that he was rejected.]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: PlayedForLaughs with [[https://babylonbee.com/news/dumb-aoc-accidentally-strangles-herself-tying-her-shoes-because-she-is-so-stupid "Dumb AOC Accidentally Strangles Herself Tying Her Shoes (Because She Is So Stupid)"]]
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Weblinks with no clarification on how these articles are "so offensive, it's funny" instead of just plain offensive.


* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/new-disney-premium-service-will-send-a-satanist-drag-queen-to-your-house-to-teach-your-kids-about-communism "New Disney+ Premium Service Will Send A Satanist Drag Queen To Your House To Teach Your Kids About Communism"]]
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/bars-on-kids-cages-to-be-painted-rainbow-colors-for-pride-month "Bars On Migrant Kids' Cages To Be Painted Rainbow Colors For Pride Month"]]
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/after-resigning-for-sexual-harassment-cuomo-immediately-hired-by-cnn "After Resigning For Sexual Harassment, Cuomo Immediately Hired By CNN"]]
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/compromise-texas-says-abortion-can-remain-legal-but-the-baby-gets-an-ar-15-to-defend-himself "Compromise: Texas Says Abortion Can Remain Legal But The Baby Gets An AR-15 To Defend Himself"]]
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/marlboro-adds-puberty-blockers-to-cigarettes-to-make-them-legal-for-kids "Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers to Cigarettes to Make Them Legal For Kids"]]

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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Leftists, Democrats, Libertarians, and uncritical Trump supporters.
* AcceptableReligiousTargets:
** The Bee often mocks aspects of evangelical Christian culture itself, but particularly [[https://babylonbee.com/news/the-10-most-brutally-martyred-christians-in-the-history-of-the-world those they perceive as exaggerating persecution]], often by [[https://babylonbee.com/news/underground-christians-in-china-pray-for-all-the-american-christians-being-persecuted-by-disney satirically comparing them to Christians living in countries hostile to Christianity.]]
** The Bee uses Episcopalians as their go-to punching bag for jokes about Christians who have, in their view, hopelessly sold out to the secular left.
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/to-ensure-maximum-suffering-hells-film-library-to-only-contain-christian-movies Christian movies]].
** Televangelists and prosperity preachers. [[https://babylonbee.com/search?term=joel+osteen Especially]] Joel Osteen.
* AcceptableTargets:
** Atheists and agnostics, due to its religious Christian slant.
** Elites and celebrities such as media personalities, Hollywood actors, singers, and sports stars.
** They're commonly critical of Website/{{Snopes}} after the latter site published several "fact checks" about the Bee that nearly got them in trouble with Website/{{Facebook}}.
** Transgender people are commonly targets of "X identifies as Y" jokes. The Bee itself eventually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0xeqOqpekE lampshaded this self-deprecatingly]].
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-times-forced-to-admit-babylon-bee-not-fake-news-since-stories-keep-coming-true The New York Times]], after they published ([[https://www.thewrap.com/new-york-times-correction-babylon-bee-satirical-website-misinformation/ and later retracted]]) the claim that Babylon Bee is a misinformation site.
** [[https://youtu.be/a0g07vJDFao Twitter]], particularly after [[https://www.newsweek.com/babylon-bee-seth-dillon-twitter-ban-censorship-rachel-levine-trans-debate-1689870 Twitter suspended them for a tweet mocking Dr. Rachel Levine, who identifies as transgender.]]
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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Leftists, Democrats, and uncritical Trump supporters.

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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Leftists, Democrats, Libertarians, and uncritical Trump supporters.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: The ''Bee'' has gained notoriety for the issue of [[PoesLaw satire and misinformation]], as figures such as then-president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'' have taken it seriously. They have faced accusations of deliberate deception, and the ''Bee'' in turn has responded with claims of their content being misrepresented and wrongly censored. The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babylon_Bee#Mistaken_for_factual_reporting Mistaken for factual reporting]]" section on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} takes up the majority of the ''Bee's'' coverage.

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* OvershadowedByControversy: The ''Bee'' has gained notoriety for the issue of [[PoesLaw satire and misinformation]], as figures such as then-president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'' have taken it seriously. They have faced accusations of deliberate deception, and the ''Bee'' in turn has responded with claims of their content being misrepresented and wrongly censored. The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babylon_Bee#Mistaken_for_factual_reporting Mistaken for factual reporting]]" section on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Website/{{Wikipedia}} takes up the majority of the ''Bee's'' coverage.
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** The Bee often mocks aspects of evangelical Christian culture itself, but particularly those they perceive as exaggerating persecution, often by [[https://babylonbee.com/news/underground-christians-in-china-pray-for-all-the-american-christians-being-persecuted-by-disney satirically comparing them to Christians living in countries hostile to Christianity.]]

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** The Bee often mocks aspects of evangelical Christian culture itself, but particularly [[https://babylonbee.com/news/the-10-most-brutally-martyred-christians-in-the-history-of-the-world those they perceive as exaggerating persecution, persecution]], often by [[https://babylonbee.com/news/underground-christians-in-china-pray-for-all-the-american-christians-being-persecuted-by-disney satirically comparing them to Christians living in countries hostile to Christianity.]]
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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Leftists, Democrats, and uncritical Trump supporters.
* AcceptableReligiousTargets:
** The Bee often mocks aspects of evangelical Christian culture itself, but particularly those they perceive as exaggerating persecution, often by [[https://babylonbee.com/news/underground-christians-in-china-pray-for-all-the-american-christians-being-persecuted-by-disney satirically comparing them to Christians living in countries hostile to Christianity.]]
** The Bee uses Episcopalians as their go-to punching bag for jokes about Christians who have, in their view, hopelessly sold out to the secular left.
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/to-ensure-maximum-suffering-hells-film-library-to-only-contain-christian-movies Christian movies]].
** Televangelists and prosperity preachers. [[https://babylonbee.com/search?term=joel+osteen Especially]] Joel Osteen.
* AcceptableTargets:
** Atheists and agnostics, due to its religious Christian slant.
** Elites and celebrities such as media personalities, Hollywood actors, singers, and sports stars.
** They're commonly critical of Website/{{Snopes}} after the latter site published several "fact checks" about the Bee that nearly got them in trouble with Website/{{Facebook}}.
** Transgender people are commonly targets of "X identifies as Y" jokes. The Bee itself eventually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0xeqOqpekE lampshaded this self-deprecatingly]].
** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-times-forced-to-admit-babylon-bee-not-fake-news-since-stories-keep-coming-true The New York Times]], after they published ([[https://www.thewrap.com/new-york-times-correction-babylon-bee-satirical-website-misinformation/ and later retracted]]) the claim that Babylon Bee is a misinformation site.
** [[https://youtu.be/a0g07vJDFao Twitter]], particularly after [[https://www.newsweek.com/babylon-bee-seth-dillon-twitter-ban-censorship-rachel-levine-trans-debate-1689870 Twitter suspended them for a tweet mocking Dr. Rachel Levine, who identifies as transgender.]]
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** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/marlboro-adds-puberty-blockers-to-cigarettes-to-make-them-legal-for-kids "Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers to Cigarettes to Make The Legal For Kids"]]

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** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/marlboro-adds-puberty-blockers-to-cigarettes-to-make-them-legal-for-kids "Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers to Cigarettes to Make The Them Legal For Kids"]]



* {{Tearjerker}}: In [[https://youtu.be/4aymk4g1P9I "Companies Strangely Silent On Pride Month In The Middle East"]], The Babylon Bee News Desk reports on various companies displaying rainbow Twitter logos for Pride Month, but are disappointed to see their respective Twitter logos for the Middle East did not get the same treatment. But then they take solace in [[FauxSymbolism Skittles having a rainbow logo]] for the Middle East. Then they receive a new report that Skittles has been thrown off a roof in Saudi Arabia.

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* {{Tearjerker}}: TearJerker: In [[https://youtu.be/4aymk4g1P9I "Companies Strangely Silent On Pride Month In The Middle East"]], The Babylon Bee News Desk reports on various companies displaying rainbow Twitter logos for Pride Month, but are disappointed to see their respective Twitter logos for the Middle East did not get the same treatment. But then they take solace in [[FauxSymbolism Skittles having a rainbow logo]] for the Middle East. Then they receive a new report that Skittles has been thrown off a roof in Saudi Arabia.
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** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/marlboro-adds-puberty-blockers-to-cigarettes-to-make-them-legal-for-kids "Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers to Cigarettes to Make The Legal For Kids"]]
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** A 2020 article, [[https://babylonbee.com/news/the-view-audience-applauds-hitler-after-revelation-he-never-voted-for-trump "'The View' Audience Applauds Hitler After Revelation He Never Voted For Trump"]], became this in 2022 after Whoopi Goldberg infamously stated that UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust was "not about race" and that it involved "two white groups of people," resulting in a two-week suspension from ''Series/TheView''. Naturally, the Bee [[https://babylonbee.com/news/while-watching-the-view-in-hell-hitler-surprised-to-learn-holocaust-wasnt-about-race lampooned this as well]].

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** A 2020 article, [[https://babylonbee.com/news/the-view-audience-applauds-hitler-after-revelation-he-never-voted-for-trump "'The View' Audience Applauds Hitler After Revelation He Never Voted For Trump"]], became this in 2022 after Whoopi Goldberg Creator/WhoopiGoldberg infamously stated that UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust was "not about race" and that it involved "two white groups of people," resulting in a two-week suspension from ''Series/TheView''. Naturally, the Bee [[https://babylonbee.com/news/while-watching-the-view-in-hell-hitler-surprised-to-learn-holocaust-wasnt-about-race lampooned this as well]].

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* HilariousInHindsight: A 2018 article, [[https://babylonbee.com/news/president-trump-declares-babylon-bee-trusted-news-source "Trump Declares Babylon Bee His Most Trusted News Source,"]] became this in October 2020 when Trump shared a ''Bee'' article on Twitter.

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A 2018 article, [[https://babylonbee.com/news/president-trump-declares-babylon-bee-trusted-news-source "Trump Declares Babylon Bee His Most Trusted News Source,"]] became this in October 2020 when Trump shared a ''Bee'' article on Twitter.Twitter.
** A 2020 article, [[https://babylonbee.com/news/the-view-audience-applauds-hitler-after-revelation-he-never-voted-for-trump "'The View' Audience Applauds Hitler After Revelation He Never Voted For Trump"]], became this in 2022 after Whoopi Goldberg infamously stated that UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust was "not about race" and that it involved "two white groups of people," resulting in a two-week suspension from ''Series/TheView''. Naturally, the Bee [[https://babylonbee.com/news/while-watching-the-view-in-hell-hitler-surprised-to-learn-holocaust-wasnt-about-race lampooned this as well]].
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** [[https://babylonbee.com/news/compromise-texas-says-abortion-can-remain-legal-but-the-baby-gets-an-ar-15-to-defend-himself "Compromise: Texas Says Abortion Can Remain Legal But The Baby Gets An AR-15 To Defend Himself"]]
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The Bee was founded in 2016, shortly before Trump's election


* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A common criticism of the ''Bee'' (post-Trump election) is that a lot of their posts default to jokes based on the premise of "[[AmbiguousGenderIdentity X identifies as Y]]". It became so prevalent, they did a comedy sketch on their [=YouTube=] channel -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0xeqOqpekE Conservative Comedy Writers VS. Liberal Comedy Writers FIGHT]]" -- as a form of SelfReferentialHumor.

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* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A common criticism of the ''Bee'' (post-Trump election) is that a lot of their posts default to jokes based on the premise of "[[AmbiguousGenderIdentity X identifies as Y]]". It became so prevalent, they did a comedy sketch on their [=YouTube=] channel -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0xeqOqpekE Conservative Comedy Writers VS. Liberal Comedy Writers FIGHT]]" -- as a form of SelfReferentialHumor.

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