SHEBOYGAN — NotTheNation, Thailand’s number two satire website, failed to publish an article on January 1, 2026, prompting immediate disappointment from longtime fan Sean Thomas, 52, who said the lapse confirmed his belief that the site “just doesn’t try anymore.” Sean, an avid reader who described himself as “basically an expat mentally,” recalled the site’s supposed golden era from 2008 to 2010, when it “nailed Thai politics every single day,” adding that while he had only visited Thailand once for nine days during college and “mostly stayed around Khao San Road,” that experience gave him “a complete understanding of how the country works.” “Back then, you could always count on a joke about that Shinawassa guy or the army people doing something crazy,” Sean said, criticizing the site for failing to produce even “one simple article” on New Year’s Day despite Thai politics being “an endless goldmine of easily-produced content.” He later explained to his cat, his only household companion, that writing daily satire was “basically just exaggerating the news a little,” and that if NotTheNation wouldn’t do it, he probably could. At press time, Sean’s cat confirmed reports he had registered NotTheNation2.com and was “pretty confident it would blow up by tonight.”
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