The Onion to Launch BuzzFeed and Upworthy Parody Site

Posted Thursday, May 1, 2014 12:30 pm

By: Chris O'Shea | Mediabistro

BuzzFeed and Upworthy have built their web empires on the time-tested premise that most people are stupid and therefore will enjoy reading stupid content. The Onion has picked up on that similarity, and decided to take on both with the launch of the appropriately named ClickHole.com.

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