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It’s always been this way, somewhat. The onion predicted the rise of Trump way back in 2012 with "After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016” (apologies for the HuffPost link, the onion just revamped their website and this article now gives a 404 error).
And of course when Bush was inaugurated they predicted his increase in the national deficit and starting wars in the Middle East with Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'
Man.......at this point The Onion isn't even satire. It art. The Onion is longform art.
there's something to be said about satire and it's seeming fundamental relation to real life, is it the satire that creates the prediction? Or is the satire just following the current trends very closely. Maybe it's the other way around.
I'm a big fan of an author who wrote a modern day sci-fi/cosmic horror series that's a thinly veiled allegory where monsters from beyond the universe are stand ins for anthropomorphic climate change. He ended up having to scrap his last book (currently being rewritten) because the way he was going to wrap up the series was going to be a worldwide plague that made people stupider.
Then covid happened.
i learned recently, i think it was sherlock holmes? I'm not a literary scholar dont quote me, was literally just a book about how mormons suck and are bad and stinky. But actually it's a novel now.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn if that kind of thing happened more often than we thought about.
should've published it anyway, i think that would've been funny.