Francis Weetman posted screenshots of The Onion’s “exclusive interview” with author J.K. Rowling so that people could read it without The Onion getting the clicks. We clicked to ensure it was real — sadly, it is — but The Onion has put it in a bizarre “slideshow” format so that you have to load a new page to read each question. That’s a pretty desperate bid for traffic.
Posting the whole “satire” interview here, so you don’t have to give the onion your clicks. pic.twitter.com/0eOyRj3RMh
— Francis Weetman (@francesweetman) February 23, 2023
A lot of people say The Onion, like “Saturday Night Live,” used to be funny, and it was … but this is painfully unfunny. An excerpt:
Would you tell us about a time that you were personally victimized by a trans person?
Yes, I remember like it was yesterday; you see, I was advocating for their total annihilation and then a few of them said some mean words to me on the internet.
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Why are you such a huge f**king hateful dork?
I prefer the term ‘fantastical bigot.’
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Do you have any words of encouragement for aspiring transphobes?
Find the time in your day to practice transphobia every day, even if it’s for only 15 minutes.
Cringe.
Honestly sounds like it was written by a teenager
— Fruella_💚🤍💜 (@enuffalready11) February 23, 2023
Satire as written by diversity hires.
— M'Bozza Ritchie (@FraserShamone) February 23, 2023
Wow the Onion these days feels like it was written by a committee of DEI ladies whose last known laugh was in 1998 https://t.co/JdQt9HYUlg
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) February 23, 2023
That's a crash course in bad satire.
— thetiredmoderate (@thetiredmodera1) February 23, 2023
Honestly, it's encouraging that this pathetic, unhinged, powerfully unfunny effort is the best Rowling's critics can do
— Oliver Rees Brown (@Psychophilogic) February 23, 2023
Beyond anything else that needs to be said about this piece, it is powerfully unfunny.
— Nick Tyrone (@NicholasTyrone) February 23, 2023
That's really all that needs to be said about it.
— Dana Jumper (@HighGraceFarm) February 23, 2023
Wow. Soooo funny! 🙄
— Mrs. Sunrise 💜🌼💚 (@DaunenJ) February 23, 2023
I can picture them all giggling away and hoping that the cool kids will like them now.
Children.
— ShabboSin (@ShabbatTweeter) February 23, 2023
That’s grim
— Paul Keeley (@drcrouchback) February 23, 2023
One big predictable yawn
— Hagar Bayliss (@Messiahofshadow) February 23, 2023
If you read it as satire against her critics, it makes a lot more sense
— StuartF (@stuartf100) February 23, 2023
Good point … think of it as a satire of the unhinged activists who believe Rowling is transphobic. Then it works.
I can't process this, it was incredibly weird & tragically unfunny.
It's almost like it was written by a JKR critic who decided to create a fanfiction narrative of the truth.
And what's worse is that I have a feeling the person who wrote this genuinely believed it was funny… pic.twitter.com/GmlK0DlE3w
— F.M. Kamel (Secular Heretic Muslim) (@FMKamel2) February 23, 2023
Don't know who the person behind it is, but I would be embarrassed if I was them.
— Eloise Mulberry (@Huffle_the_puff) February 23, 2023
Is this *the* The Onion that used to present some of the most intelligent satire around for, what, 20 years ago? That's really sad…
— Georg_Maximus (@georg_maximus) February 23, 2023
Embarrassing.
— The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (@those_this) February 23, 2023
Grim and really unfunny.
— Rohbo (@rohbo1) February 23, 2023
Wow, not a single amusing word
A new low
— domeofchrome (@domeofchrome) February 23, 2023
God this is embarrassing.
— Jessica Masterson (@jlmasterson) February 23, 2023
Onion used to be funny. Now they’re desperate because reality is stranger than their old headlines.
— Trans Gruber (@DraughtJane) February 23, 2023
This is really weak. And the thing is, Rowling has a great wit, as she’s proved time and time again when smeared on Twitter. Rowling could have written a better satirical interview of herself.
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