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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope the writer for this article makes residuals. They're getting a lot of use out of it

[–] Alerian@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do actually rewrite it slightly each time they repost it, even though the title is the same

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They just change the date, city, number of victims, and then change the fake person's name for the quote. The rest stays exactly the same.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that's how all news sites do it now

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

But in this case it's part of the point of the repeating article that the article is nearly identical every time

[–] poppy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be darkly funny if they had an “____ Days Since We Had to Repost This” counter for it.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It will be stuck at 0