#theonion

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #theonion from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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37
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
12
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.3/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
39
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-25 06:08 UTC
6
10-19
7
10-20
7
10-21
7
10-22
8
10-23
2
10-24
0
10-25

37 uses by 12 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-25 06:08 UTC
#TheOnionRouter
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionnews
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionhumor
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theOnionDotCom
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonioncenter
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionhasnothingtoofferoverreality
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionsports
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionbuysinfowars
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionbuys
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theoniontakeover
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionconnection
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#theonionacquiresinfowars
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-25 06:08 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~140 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (39) · German (1)

Avg boosts / post: 33

Top of the latest posts

  • Congrats to #TheOnion https://bit.ly/2AeY0zK

    Claire McNab@[email protected]♥ 1,392↻ 1,1022026-10-18 18:27 UTCView post →

  • #FranceRiots #PrivateEquity #LegalizedTheft #TheOnion #Humour #FunnyStuff

    The Whore of Blahbylon@[email protected]♥ 165↻ 1672026-10-18 20:40 UTCView post →

  • Trump Boasts Tariffs A Huge Success At Making Things Expensive WASHINGTON—Touting the enormous impact his trade policy has had on the economy, President Donald Trump boasted in a speech Monday that the tariffs he had imposed on goods from o

    The Onion@[email protected]♥ 8↻ 52026-10-19 19:06 UTCView post →

What “theonion” means

Wikipedia

The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin. The Onion began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network. In 2013, The Onion stopped publishing its print edition. It was then acq

“The Onion” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#theonion across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #theonion straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/theonion