The Onion (Onion Gamers Network)
OGN is The Onion’s section for the world’s most important topic: video games. OGN publishes headlines from the gaming frontlines about critical topics like the depraved lives of Animal Crossing characters and whether Bill Gates would run toward an Xbox Series X or Series S if he was placed an equal distance from both.
I wrote headlines and article content that raised The Onion’s bar for humor and creativity.
The Mini Game:
Project Summary: Hilarious and uniquely satirical headlines and jokes in the editorial voice of someone who can only understand the world in terms of video games.
Deliverables:
Weekly comedy headline packets
On-call comedy headlines and features writing for breaking news
My Contribution:
Creative writing
Comedy writing
Editing
Research
Journalism
Know Your Rights: If a Cop Asks You to Stop Gaming, You Don’t Have To
Deal Alert: This Kid Has All The Coolest Games, And You Can Play Them At His House If You Can Get Over How Weird He Is
Man Insisted He Could Survive Alone In The Wilderness Based Only On What He Learned In Minecraft, And It Went Pretty Much How You’d Expect: Extremely Well
Our Bad, Gamers: Historians Tell Us ‘Axis Of Evil” Does Not Actually Refer To People Who Use Inverted Aiming Controls
Pray For Us: We Just Learned The Captain On This Flight Has Never Played ‘Pilot Wings 64,’ So We Are Going To Storm The Cockpit
10 Tips To Quiet The Whirring Sound In Your PS4 That Just Won’t Stop Telling You To Kidnap The Mayor
Find more of my Onion headlines on my comedy website.
Results:
“The most consistently hilarious and clever” —Onion staff, readership, and colleagues
14% higher-than-average audience engagement