- Anvilicious: The Bee is about as subtle with its Rightist politics as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is with its Leftist politics. Progressives are near universally shown as virtue signalers (with even a joke
about how they’d support literal Nazis if said Nazis agreed with their beliefs). - 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. - Really, this happened so often that the Babylon Bee keeps its own list
.
- A 2018 article, "Trump Declares Babylon Bee His Most Trusted News Source,"
- 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. - Memetic Mutation: Because of many cases when The Babylon Bee's satirical articles come true later, readers of The Babylon Bee frequently joke that The Babylon Bee is actually a book of prophecies. Eventually, even the Babylon Bee got in the act, not only releasing a video that pokes fun at this phenomenon
but also forming a Book of Prophecy
page. - 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.
- In "Companies Strangely Silent On Pride Month In The Middle East"
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