Slop is for gossip, the only rule for fake news is that it’s OC only. I didn’t think “Mark Wahlberg Claims Elon Musk’s Botched Penis Implant Wouldn’t Have Gone Down Like That If He Was Attending Surgeon” was going to set off the “I can’t actually tell if this is real and that makes me upset” brigade.
Wait, people actually complain about hardtimes and onion articles? That’s baffling. They’re silly shitposts that clearly label themselves, it’s not at all like the problem of “literally this one poster keeps making ‘news’ posts where the joke is that it’s a lie and not even like a funny one” that c/fakenews was made to quarantine.
The last time I posted an Onion-esque article, again 2 months ago half the comments were telling me to take it elsewhere and someone reported it. I get that there are people who have trouble parsing this kind of stuff but it’s easy to check and even when I get got I laugh it off and go about my day.