Using Social Media To Cover For Lack Of Original Thought - Onion Talks - Ep. 6

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as the Onion Talks parody most relevant to tech and startup culture.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Onion

Topic

social media satire

Format

comedy

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

• This one is a masterpiece: [VIDEO] To survive in the new internet economy, you need to come up with a new service or product that people will want. Not likely, right? Using your brain to think of an idea, and your skills to implement it: …

• I think the social media Onion talk ( [VIDEO] ) is the most relevant to HN (and my favourite). You are definitely not the only one who's BS detector was going off. I find that TED has about the same number of good talks per …

• If you haven't seen them, make sure to check out The Onion's TED parodies - Onion Talks: [LINK] They may be the funniest thing The Onion has ever done. =================================== Edit: of particular interest to the HN crowd would be their takedown of the "Idea …