Now a year and a half old, The Bunion gets 4,000 to 5,000 page views in an average week and has over 1,200 subscribers on Facebook and 1,600 on Tumblr. Flynn also emulates The Onion’s style of fabricating all sources and quotes. The name Bunion pays homage both to The Onion and to being a pain in BU’s foot, as illustrated in logo and motto (“We’ll be with you every step you take”). “I thought I could take a crack at it, and so I went for it.” “I was frustrated that it was BU’s only representation of satire writing,” he says. The issue caused severe backlash and got national press coverage.īeing a fan of satire like The Onion and The Colbert Report, Flynn says the incident made him realize that many BU students were confused as to what satire was.
#Higher ed version of the onion series
“We try to make the stories as relatable as possible by focusing on the micro details that everyone can relate to.”Ĭomputer science major Flynn started The Bunion after an infamous April 2012 incident involving a not-to-be-named student publication whose April Fool’s edition focused on a series of sexual assaults and robberies that had recently occurred on campus. “We write about life at BU, the things we notice just from walking around,” says Flynn (CAS’14), a member of the improv group Slow Children at Play. Fashion trends, crime sprees, Dean Elmore-nothing is off limits. The brainchild of Kevin Flynn, The Bunion zeros in on all that BU holds most dear and sacred-then pounces. The scenario was concocted recently by The Bunion, a student-run satire website based on The Onion, the genre’s popular originator. “I kept running out and just adding more and more of ’em. “I guess it kind of just got away from me,” says Craig Westlow (CAS’17), whose family is now destitute. Did you hear about the BU freshman who bankrupted his family after discovering he could charge convenience points to his parents’ credit card?
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