If you can't get enough of The Onion—as well as its offshoot ClickHole, a hilarious content farm of clickbait—you might appreciate their latest launch, satirical celebrity gossip site StarWipe. In the vein of popular sites like TMZ and Us Weekly, StarWipe brings the best of callous celebrity gossip and absolutely necessary news like "Emmy Photos We Can't Stop Staring At Even Though We're Supposed To Be Controlling Air Traffic" and "Iggy Azalea Seeks Replacement Rapper Friend."
The "About" page for the site says StarWipe is "the most trusted source in the completely untrustworthy realm of celebrity gossip" and that it remains "dedicated to ensuring that celebrities rue the day they ever decided to pursue life as a public figure."
In an interview with Esquire, A.V. Club senior editor and StarWipe editor-in-chief Sean O'Neal said they come to the same celebrity news with the difference being that they "don't have to make anything up, because gossip culture is already fake and ridiculous." Esquire also interviewed Onion Inc. CEO Mike McAvoy, who said, "StarWipe is also a strategic bet to create content properties that attract new audiences and grow the overall reach of Onion, Inc.'s media empire."
Whatever the site aims to be, it's certainly a welcome and hilarious addition to Chicago's media scene.