ClickHole

ClickHole is a satirical website whose pieces imitate the formats of viral and clickbait media: listicles, personality quizzes, emotional-appeal headlines and sponsored-content parodies. It was created by The Onion, and is now owned and operated by ClickHole LLC, which also runs the companion sites PatriotHole and ResistanceHole.

Format

The site is organised into News, Pop Culture, Lifestyle, Video, KidHole, Quiz and ClickVentures sections, and it was publishing new items daily as of 1 September 2026. ClickVentures are branching, choose-your-path stories. It runs an Email Club and a merchandise store.

Sourcing Note

ClickHole’s About page cannot be used as a source: it is written in character, claiming among other things that “ClickHole staff members don’t write or produce any of the articles” and that content “materialize[s] onto our website of their own will.”

The founded: 2014 value is removed: the privacy policy gives no date and the About page is unusable.

Two ownership claims from the previous version of this page are corrected. The site is not operated by G/O Media; its privacy policy names ClickHole LLC. The statement that “in 2020, writers and editors acquired the site, forming a cooperative” could not be verified from any accessible source and is removed. The g-o-media and the-av-club connections have been removed with them — The A.V. Club is now owned by Paste Media and shares no owner with ClickHole.

Also removed as unsourceable: the reach line “millions of monthly views”; the claims about live comedy shows, podcasts, a Discord fan community and membership offerings; the assertion that editors “test headline formats across Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok”; and the closing claim that the site “expose[s] how platform incentives shape the political information landscape.”