r/onionheadlines↗
Write Your Own Onion Headlines, Or Don't. Shut Up About It
A subreddit for writing satirical news headlines in the style of *The Onion* Please NOTE: this subreddit is not affiliated with the actual Onion newspaper in any way, shape, or form. These headlines are written by knuckle-dragging reddit users. The real Onion publishes actually good headlines, unlike the subliterate imitations you see here.
114k subscribers1,604 posts / mo in Sep 2026200 authors / mosince 2011
r/onionheadlines has 114k members (+13% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,604 posts a month from 200 people. Top topics: Presidential Impact on Markets, Musk-Trump Dynamics and Trump and Epstein Files.
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