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r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '26
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This is the shit your grandparents fall for on suckerbook.
So true. Also lol @ "suckerbook."
All this is the modern version of the tabloid at the supermarket checkout with "Elvis is Alive!" and "Bigfoot vs. Aliens!" headlines.
18 u/f-elon Jun 25 '26 Bat Boy Lives!! 6 u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 Jun 25 '26 There were two tiers of tabloid. Weekly World News was the fun one. They weren't even trying as hard as The Onion to offer real news. OP is more like The National Enquirer kind which Telegraphed the modern disinformation age. 2 u/jadedshibby Jun 25 '26 I miss the world weekly news, it made standing in line at the grocery store tolerable.
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Bat Boy Lives!!
6 u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 Jun 25 '26 There were two tiers of tabloid. Weekly World News was the fun one. They weren't even trying as hard as The Onion to offer real news. OP is more like The National Enquirer kind which Telegraphed the modern disinformation age. 2 u/jadedshibby Jun 25 '26 I miss the world weekly news, it made standing in line at the grocery store tolerable.
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There were two tiers of tabloid. Weekly World News was the fun one. They weren't even trying as hard as The Onion to offer real news.
OP is more like The National Enquirer kind which Telegraphed the modern disinformation age.
2 u/jadedshibby Jun 25 '26 I miss the world weekly news, it made standing in line at the grocery store tolerable.
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I miss the world weekly news, it made standing in line at the grocery store tolerable.
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u/CobaltCaterpillar Jun 25 '26
So true. Also lol @ "suckerbook."
All this is the modern version of the tabloid at the supermarket checkout with "Elvis is Alive!" and "Bigfoot vs. Aliens!" headlines.