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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 58 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

It will be stuck at 0