Essay by Eric Worrall
“… Coming soon is an episode called Spank Banks …”
Are OnlyFans models the best way to explain the climate crisis?
Stuart Heritage Thu 9 Apr 2026 00.35 AEST
Actor Megan Prescott has joined with Adam McKay in the hope that showing bite-size web videos of women undressing will persuade us to save the world. Will it work?
The world, as we know, is in trouble. … it feels as if we need a genuine miracle to stop us from sleepwalking into catastrophe. Could that miracle be an environmental warning from a woman in her pants?
This is the stated desire of Headline Newds, a new series of web videos by actor Megan Prescott, film-maker Bree Essrig and “climate narrative strategist” Jessica Riches. Released through the not-for-profit Yellow Dot Studios – belonging to Adam McKay, creator of movies The Big Short and Don’t Look Up – Headline Newds is made up of bite-size videos in which the climate emergency is broken down and raunchily explained to us by a variety of OnlyFans models.
… When McKay made The Big Short in 2015, it was a gamble. … rather than risk alienating audiences with a long, boring explanation, he hired Margot Robbie to talk us through the subject while wiggling around in a bubble bath.
…The better news is that it improves. Coming soon is an episode called Spank Banks, in which dominatrix Eva Oh names the banks that profit most from global fossil fuel projects while simultaneously paddling the bottom of a man in a pig mask. It’s a call to action, hinting that consumer choice will be enough to persuade the banks to change direction.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/08/are-onlyfans-models-the-best-way-to-explain-the-climate-crisis
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I had to check the date, my first thought was I accidentally stumbled across an April Fools Day joke. But The Guardian never jokes this way about climate change, other than the occasional lame poke at climate villain tropes – they regard climate change as deadly serious.
Will the COP31 climate conference in Antalya feature Turkish belly dancers holding climate placards? What breast size is likely to win commitment to the most ambitious climate treaty?
How can the climate movement possibly sink lower than this level of absurdity? I’m sure they’ll manage, but how?
Please keep the comments family friendly.
Of course, The Guardian. Toward the bottom of the page, where they ask for money, they have a comment that reads:
“In his first presidency, Donald Trump called journalists the enemy; in his second term, it’s clear he’s treating us like one.”
It’s because you are.
I love at their press conferences how they mercilessly shame mainstream “journalists” when they ask stupid questions. They are the enemy of rational thought.
Trump was treated in the beginning , for no obvious reasons and after 4 decades of praise, like an enemy by the journalists for months, before he started hitting back – therefore the enemy thing comes from the journalists ;
But for some strange reason he is getting less heat from journalists who officially are rabid pacifists for going to war now than in his 1st term for totally irrelevant(and probably unproven ) stuff like” grab them by the p…”.
which is quite the anomaly.
That is a sticky wicket.
Because from that point on the right journalists will be those who support your team. That means the job of journalists aiming for the truth and questioning power is in peril. Because any criticism is now concidered coming from the enemy and this binary approach actually destroys proper journalism which is SUPPOSED to be non biased and independent or at least trying to be
But because journalism and the media have been so thoroughly corrupted by money and power there seems to be no way out. And two opposing sense of realities can now live side by side, catered to a specific audience/ demographic.
It’s a schitzo world..
As one searches back into history, one comes upon Watergate, which seems to be the tipping point for journalism pursuing Pulitzer Prizes rather that objective journalism.
All media exists to manipulate public opinion and has always been so. Only the easily manipulated believe any of it.
“I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors.”
Thomas Jefferson
14 June 1807 Works 10:417–18
Losing is an ugly thing, try not to look stupid while you are doing it.
They have gone full fire-retardant. !!
Everyone knows you should never do that.
Will the toys have moving parts?
Will the toys be solar powered?
I suppose wind could work, but the methane! OMG!
LOL
The sort of asceticism favored by the Green Blob is very nearly masochism, so S and M might appeal to them.
With all due recognition, this link is going to the Babylon Bee.
I’m going to suggest their title start with “TRUE or FALSE?” – since they trumpet their ‘articles’ as ‘Fake News You Can Trust’ – and see what kind of reactions they get…
(Have to admit I had another comment planned, but laughter kept ruining my already atrocious typing.)
Might be more a “Not the Bee” article… 🙂
Concur just on content. It’s the absurdity of this article’s tone of seriousness that makes it more an original Bee item, in my frequently-unfounded-in-reality opinion.
Nobody should attempt to read any msm news before they read the Babylon Bee every morning.
Absurdity masquerading as reality by the msm needs to be put in context beforehand.
Wow. I think you just defined a curriculum entry needed at any school in the country!
Philosophy, engineering, teaching (!!), management, medicine, any and all disciplines would benefit from being introduced to and trained in detection and management of the absurd that – as you aptly put – has been “masquerading as reality” for at least several decades.
I quit teaching a decade or two ago (depending on your definition of ‘teaching’) but it’d be fun to teach a course on something akin to “The Cultural and Social Significance of the Contributions to Critical Thinking Derived from Analysis of the Ethos of the Babylon Bee.” LOL!
Sign me up !!!!
Add The Onion to the list.
It’s impossible, there are just too many jokes to make. And all of them (to my great delight) are not in the best taste…
One could mention, for example, to stay within the erotic theme, the up-and-down motion—very suggestive, isn’t it?—of the horsehead pumps on oil wells, set alongside the high-pressure gushing of a newly discovered oil well, and the overflowing cries of exhilaration from future multimillionaires who struck the jackpot by drilling in the right place, with a moralizing subtitle proclaiming that “humanity is dying from having indulged too much,” or something along those lines.
In a different vein: a parody of the poster for the film Heat, with, as director and lead actor, the namesake of the great director of Collateral and The Last of the Mohicans; I give you Michael “hockey stick” Mann. The story follows a visionary climatologist pursued by hitmen in the pay of Big Oil, so that his discovery of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming never comes to light. The film ends in a Mexican standoff in the middle of an abandoned ice hockey rink somewhere in Arizona. During the intermission, Al Gore would walk through the theater aisles, selling half-melted ice creams to astonished viewers at an exorbitant price “to fund climate action” and committed filmmaking. Could one even imagine some kind of Malthusian at the ticket counter, whose badge would read the name Pol R. Lich, offering, for every two tickets purchased, a free cyanide capsule so you can slip away gently after watching this cinematic masterpiece?
I really wish there was a way to scrub those horrible images from my mind…
It must be said that the Guardian really does its part to stimulate somewhat twisted imaginations!
AI could make that Mickey Mann video for you.
Here you go. By ChatGPT.
Excellent! They must have heard me burst out laughing from the other end of the street.
Did you get that result with the paid version or the free version of ChatGPT? I have very limited experience with image generation.
After using the free version for some weeks, they offered me a free month at the $20/month level. I liked it and will continue at that level. So, this image was with a paid level but I think it would do it the same at the free level. For a prompt, I simply used your last paragraph describing the scene. After a few seconds of “thinking” it told me that it couldn’t use an image of any public person, meaning Mann so the first iteration of the image, instead of Mann’s face, there was some arbitrary face. I told it to make up an image of a bald guy with a goofy goatee. In the second iteration, it actually used Mann’s face. Go figure. I love image making with AI because I have a wild imagination but zero art skills, though I have a love of art. I just have no clue how art is done and too lazy to learn. But with AI, you just tell it what you want- in words, or verbally if you turn on your microphone. There is a skill to this though. Many YouTube sites explain how to best use AI for the many things it can do including image and video making- and for business and research purposes. At later time I’ll subscribe to a video AI which ChatGPT can’t do- having just dropped their video app called Sora 2. But before I go there I need more experience with image generation.
Oh, if you’re using the free versions, you are generally limited in how many images you can do per day- usually several at most. With the paid versions you can do it all day long.
Sex sells but good luck making climate alarm sexy..
The Guardian is a cesspool of propaganda that brain dead idiots take as the gospel.
hmmmm… I now have an image of actual porn actors discussing the climate emergency while…..
OnlyFans itself and by itself explains why the world might be in ‘trouble’.
The notion that it might help ‘promote’ climate change’ just proves that the dreaded ‘climate change’ is itself just more self referential soft porn.
This is actually the most honest approach of the climate mafia.
They kind of admitt that AGW is not about science but prostitution
by the most shameless sociopaths out there
who will do the most hilarious things their paymasters tell them to do to
in order to have a decent life without having a real job.
It was about time for those 2 to unite.
Hey, at least “OnlyFans” seems to know the difference between a male and a female. !
That puts them way above most Democrat politicians, leftist judges, and MSM journalists.
In a way, yes. Both OnlyFans and climate hysteria are the result of breakdowns in traditional society. One, the result of moral relativism and decadence and the other, educational institutions — at all levels — failing to teach critical thinking and analysis.
” failing to teach critical thinking and analysis”
which leads to
“moral relativism and decadence”
The alarmists leave no stone unturned and when you think they’ve run out of stones …….
Methinks someone was stoned. 😉
Finally something I want out of a model, eye candy.
Might as well leave the volume on mute since most models are known for movement rather than talking any way.
I’m betting Naomi Oreskes is a huge turn off.
A Naomi + Nancy session.
I would have to gouge my eyes out, and radiate my memory cells.
When it is The Guardian you know it’s stupid on steroids!
The only genuine miracle the world needs is for The Guardian and its ilk to be prevented from publishing and/or broadcasting increasingly asinine climate crisis stories that never materialize. Viewers , readers and listeners are already exposed to too much of this climate alarmism, so if it were to be curtailed or prohibited entirely it would be greatly appreciated.
But the ad clicks! /s
They have completely run out of ideas.
They are also running out of credibility.
We all know that climate models are running hot but……….
So now we have hot climate models? 😉
Well, if yr job is to promote a certain set of ideas and policies then you will continue to find stuff to attach once you have attended to the obvious ones.
I don’t blame the writers for doing their job.
Most journalists are activists now. Their job is to find the truth…according to those who supply the narrative. Skepticism is reserved for the other side. It is institutional bias..
Good to see progress in climate modelling, silicon models to silicone models. Lots of research opportunity for optimizing parameters. Now where’s my grant application form?
From The Guardian to The Grauniad to The Groiniad. They have reached rock-bottom.
Sorry. They are still aways from rock-bottom.
Have your beer and popcorn ready!
“videos of women undressing will persuade us to save the world”
Watching women undress (in my presence) always makes me feel like the world will survive just fine. 🙂
So they are going to use an electricity and petroleum products dense medium to rail against electricity and petroleum products. Okely dokely.
There is a limit to good taste, but no limit to bad taste.
— MSU Spartan Marching Band saying
WAIT,WAIT,WAIT……they might have a point here.
Exactly what is your objection to the article? It is a review of videos made by others. Are you saying that newspapers shouldn’t review TV shows or that they should only review shows that you want to watch? The review itself is fairly negative pointing out that the shows are pointless and not necessary. Which is something I am guessing you would probably agree with.
Sounds like they’ll finally have some models worth looking at.
Chase Hughes explains brilliantly, the psychology behind this tactic…