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Starwipe, The Onion’s Parody of Celebrity News, Is Shutting Down

June 17, 2016

Since, as they say, “celebrity is dead”, they’re saying goodbye.

In truth, Starwipe hasn’t gained the popularity that the other Onion off-shoot, Clickhole, has gotten and will be thusly shutting down its operation.

We do note that celebrity news is getting harder and harder to parody as the source material seems like a parody of itself already and parodies of that have already flooded the Internet. In any case, we’ll be curious to see if starwipe.com will be used for anything else like .gifs of actual starwipes over the post-apocalyptic hellscape that’s left in the wake of the concept of celebrity dying.

The Onion Expands Its Satirical Universe with TMZ Parody “Starwipe”

September 21, 2015

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parody, starwipe, the onion, tmz

“The website’s name is StarWipe. And no matter how fervently celebrities may pretend otherwise, it exists. It exists, and it will write articles making fun of the beautiful, idolized rich for an audience of readers who should probably be working right now, in a way that will make that audience maybe smirk and feel slightly superior for a few, fleeting seconds. And those celebrities can’t really do anything about it, besides not saying or doing dumb things.”

The Onion has already solidified its expansion of the large scale institutions that they parody. The Onion itself parodies newspapers, Clickhole takes on content aggregators, and their latest endeavor, Starwipe takes on entertainment obsessed journalism like TMZ.

While the satire of The Onion still goes over the heads of some folks and Clickhole gets so close to the real thing that one of their writers got brought over to Buzzfeed, it seems Starwipe is making no cover up of their contempt of how entertainment journalism is carried out these days.

A quick perusal of their site will show headlines like “Kate Upton Nearly Avoids Wardrobe Malfunction, Saves Herself Humilation and Us From Lack of Free Will” and “Baby Bump Watch: George Clooney” are good examples of this.

You can peruse more of Starwipe here, then follow them on FB and Twitter here and here