Ben Collins

We're just like working really hard and we wake up in the morning and we're, we're, we feel pretty good.

Yeah, it's exactly the same as it was back then.

I think that's what works about it, is that we come in with, like, 150 headlines a day, and we whittle them down to, like, one or two.

It is the most severe editing process anywhere in the world.

There's something about being really manual right now where people can tell.

Like, people are just very... People yearn for non-AI stuff.

We don't use AI in any exported thing in any capacity.

I'm sure somebody's using it to, like, fill out an Excel document somewhere, but, like...

if it's in our arts if it's in a headline first of all you would be able to tell me get yelled at immediately uh so please yell at us if you see it but second of all it's it's in our bylaws we're just gonna use it we're not it's uh you can see it's in our about us section we are fervently against it uh because it produces bad stuff right now like maybe down the line it'll be good but right now it's way the fuck off

Well, we want The Onion to remain at this incredibly high bar.

Like if you watch an ONN, like an Onion News Network video, it is great.

Like we want to be able to have these incredibly written, just really highly thought out videos.

And is that the pace of the internet?

I'm not sure, but we want to maintain that quality bar.

So like when we did Jeffrey, I've Seen Bad Pedophile, which is a documentary that we put in theaters as well.

Everything was extremely heavily written and scrutinized and all this stuff.

And it's with a tiny staff.

Like our staff is when we took over is probably about 15 people.

Now it's about 35.

That's not the video team.