ClickHole by The Onion

The most irresistibly shareable content on the internet

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The most irresistibly shareable content on the internet

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ClickHole looks a lot like Upworthy and they completely embrace who they are: "We strive to make sure that all of our content panders to and misleads our readers just enough to make it go viral. You see, we don’t think anything on the internet should ever have to settle for mere tens of thousands of pageviews. We believe that each and every article—whether about pop culture, politics, internet trends, or social justice—should be clicked on and shared by hundreds of millions of internet users before they can even comprehend what they just read." #respect

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12yr ago

Real Fake

Love it. As any good literature major would be, I'm a fan of all things meta — when it's done well. Clickhole seems like the weirder, darker cousin of The Onion that's hell-bent on flipping off the rest of the media world. That's great for two reasons: A) It can make for great comedy and B) Maybe this will help mass audiences be more skeptical of the rest of the web, which they should be. Hopefully, Clickhole becomes a constant source of humor and also has a side affect of making people more conscious of how they spend their time online. I'm eager to see how the tone of the site develops. My favorite pieces so far: http://www.clickhole.com/video/w... http://www.clickhole.com/blogpos...

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12yr ago

Wyndy

@mischa - that http://www.clickhole.com/video/w... is brilliant. Great find...

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12yr ago

Hey guys, I'm a dev on the Onion's product team, we've been working on Clickhole for the last few months, and so we're really happy to see all the great response today. The site is built with Django, and uses Elasticsearch heavily. We've got a custom CMS that we built with Angular. Though our open-source code isn't quite ready for other people to easily use it, we've got quite a bit of stuff at https://github.com/theonion/ (and will be adding more in the future). Any questions (tech, or otherwise), let me know! If I can't answer them, I can find someone who can.

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12yr ago

On Deck Daily

This is ridiculously awesome. Agree w/ @mischa -- not only is it hilarious, but it has the chance of informing the mass audience and making the Internet a better place. Brilliant!

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12yr ago

Go Fractional

Its amazing how meta and smart this is - the more silly and frivolous the materials, the more they get traffic, which can then be used to show how silly things are. Great virtuous cycle here Onion!

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12yr ago

Backchannel

cc'ing @chrissinchok if you have any q's for a dev on the clickhole project!

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12yr ago

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