Get Ready for the Onion's BuzzFeed/Upworthy Parody Website ClickHole
Hilarious fake news site the Onion is ready to take on the likes of BuzzFeed and Upworthy with their brand new website: ClickHole, which is set to launch in June.
Right now the website http://clickhole.com/ merely has a placeholder which instructs users on how clicking works (complete with practice clicking), but come June we are in for a treat.
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According to Onion News host Jim Haggerty, the site will be "putting content and sponsored posts side by side, with barely any distinction between them."
"People will climb into this click hole and find content so interesting they won't be able to keep it to themselves. Every post is engineered to be as shareable as possible, so it spreads like a deadly wildfire on social media."
So what sort of content can we expect?- Quizzes like "Which pizza should I have for dinner tonight? (presented by Pizza Hut)"
- Uplifting personal tales in list forms: "Seven pricks that defied the odds and didn't go into finance."
- The aww factor: A video titled "What this adorable little girl says will melt your heart." (It's actually a cogent explanation of how brands monetize adorable little kids, as spoken by an adorable little kid.)
- And finally, photo slide shows with no words: "Six kinds of hay."