![]() ![]() It’s kind of a natural result of expansion – we’re still doing Christian jokes and we still love doing them. Now we publish five or six a day, and maybe two will be a more niche Christian joke. ![]() In the beginning, we published two or three articles a day, and they would mostly be Christian. When people think of the Babylon Bee, they may tend to think of the political stuff because that’s what you’re seeing on your social media feed more often. So we still throw up a couple of Christian articles a day at least, but the ones that get shared more are the political ones and the current event ones. In addition, we publish a lot more content now. When we started too attract a wider audience through the 2016 election and beyond, those articles started to do better on the current events side. But, in the beginning, most of our audience was built up of that core Christian crowd, and so those articles simply did much better in terms of readership and shares on social media. We always had done politics – of the first couple of articles we published, about half were political, so it was always an intention for us to do Christian satire and then take the Christian worldview and apply it to politics and current events. Finally, about two years ago, I managed to quit my job and take over the site, and I run it full-time now.Ĭan you tell me about the transition from a Christian satire site to one now known primarily for politics? And then eventually, I was brought on part-time as the head writer. They were good, and I guess they liked them and they kept publishing them. ![]() I was working in construction, and I started emailing in headline ideas. I basically was just emailing in submissions, and I did that on the first day the Babylon Bee launched, which was four years ago this March. I sat down with the site’s EIC, Kyle Mann, to ask about the Bee, its battles with the fact-checking website Snopes and the role of comedy in society. The Babylon Bee is a major internet satire website and, since its launch in 2016, it has only grown in scope and reputation. ![]()
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