Watch out Upworthy, BuzzFeed and the other bazillion viral content producers who rely on visitors falling into the rabbit hole of clicking link after viral link on their website. There's soon to be a new, funnier kid on the block who's going after your audience by poking fun at you...
Parody news site The Onion, which already garners robust traffic by playing off newspaper and TV news story stereotypes, announced this week it will set its sights on stealing some of the click love with a parody site of the viral content farms.
The new site, ClickHole.com, will launch in June. Don't worry though if you can't wait that long, there's already a fun infographicesque tutorial up on the homepage where you can practice your clicking skills. Plus, the name is such a perfect parody of such sites that it's hard to believe that domain was even available.
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