YMMV / Babylon Bee

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A 2018 article, "Trump Declares Babylon Bee His Most Trusted News Source," became this in October 2020 when Trump shared a Bee article on Twitter.
  • A 2020 article, "'The View' Audience Applauds Hitler After Revelation He Never Voted For Trump", became this in 2022 after Whoopi Goldberg infamously stated that The Holocaust was "not about race" and that it involved "two white groups of people," resulting in a two-week suspension from The View. Naturally, the Bee lampooned this as well.
  • One article suggests an American made Moral Substitute to Bluey for Bentkey with more patriotic American accents. A few weeks later, Chip Chilla was a launch title for the platform.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A common criticism of the Bee is that a lot of their posts default to jokes based on the premise of "X identifies as Y". It became so prevalent, they did a comedy sketch on their YouTube channel — "Conservative Comedy Writers VS. Liberal Comedy Writers FIGHT" — as a form of Self-Referential Humor.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The Bee has gained notoriety for the issue of satire and misinformation, as figures such as then-president Donald Trump and 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 "Mistaken for factual reporting" section on Wikipedia takes up the majority of the Bee's coverage.
• Tear Jerker:
  • In "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 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.
  • "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. The skit ends with Aiden, who is black, sadly telling his mother that he was rejected.

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