When Satire Fills the Vacuum Left by Policy Argument

A piece of satire traveling without framing is a specific kind of signal. The Onion's Sam Altman interview circulated on Bluesky the way content circulates when the audience has already internalized the argument and is sharing recognition, not persuasion. Nobody added context because none was needed — the joke and the reality it compresses had already merged in the minds of the people passing it along. That merger is the story, and it did not happen because The Onion got funnier.