No Joke: Overstock.com Is Getting Into Streaming, as The Onion Predicted It Would

Today, in a move that pits the company against Amazon, online retailer Overstock.com said it would launch its own streaming and video-on-demand services, slated to be available by the middle of the year.

And funnily enough, in 2013 the satirical news site The Onion predicted just that.

It gets better, too: The Onion joked about Overstock’s “millions of customers,” and it seems that is exactly what the e-tailer is looking to capitalize on: “We already have the traffic,” CEO Patrick Byrne told The Hollywood Reporter. “We’re looking for a bigger and bigger share of their wallet.”

Here are some tweets from today:

And here are some tweets from November 2013:



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