From the text Crafting Hyperreal Spaces for Comic Insights: The Onion News Network’s Ironic Iconicity by Don J. Waisanen portrays his work as he analyzes how, “Ironic iconicity is used in many ONN clips to amplify moral judgments about media and politics, playing an evaluative, satirical role in public discourse, and teaching us how normativity can be crafted online” (519). Waisanen’s main idea revolves around the Onion News Network and its video clips and how extensively popular they have become over the years. However, their popularity has become greatly influenced by the over exaggeration and mockery portrayed by the use of satire in their video clips instead of plain, obvious humor. In addition, over the year, these well known videos have
