• Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    48 minutes ago

    You know how if you’re reading a headline from the onion and you mistake it for real you’ve “eaten the onion?”

    Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon? Where a real headline reflecting actual reality is so ridiculous that you reject it out of hand as satire only to realize it was genuine? Regurgitating the onion? What’s the name for this?