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So it happened.
Remember from Terminator how Skynet became self-aware on August 29th, 1997 and went to war with humanity?
Well, over the weekend, somebody posted a breakup note on Reddit, and Australia’s media decided it didn’t need to create its own content any more.
News.com.au led the way…
For those who don’t know, Reddit’s best subreddit is Not the onion. Where you find news stories you expect to come from The Onion, but aren’t.
http://reddit.com/r/nottheonion
For example: “Council spent £15000 a year for 15 years mowing the wrong lawns”
I think what constitutes Reddit’s “best” subreddit is highly contentious.
Nottheonion, whilst good, is not a patch on AskReddit, TrueReddit or DepthHub.
I recommend all my pals in meatspace sign up.
Finally this is getting on other people’s nerves as much as it’s been getting on mine!
I’m so sick of seeing “news articles” which have either been produced based on the tweets of “celebrities” and non famous people (easy way to create outrage at something by showing what a few people think) OR directly ripping off stuff that I’ve seen on Reddit a few days earlier.
Something needs to be done, but “articles” like this are the bread and butter of online news sites now since it’s easy and requires no actual investigative skills.
It is, however, amusing to read something new on buzzfeed, then see it on news.com.au and mX a few days later.