In August 2012, it was announced that a group of former "The Onion" writers had teamed up with Adult Swim to create comedy content on a website called "Thing X". According to the comedy website Splitsider, ""The Onion" writers had nothing else going on, and AdultSwim.com wanted to take advantage of that. But only because they smelled a business opportunity. Adult Swim is just looking at it from a business standpoint." In June 2013, it was announced that "Thing X" would be shutting down with some staff moving over to parent website adultswim.com on June 18, 2013. In February 2013 "The Onion" was added to "Advertising Age"s "Digital A-List 2013" because the publication "...has not just survived, it's thrived..." since the publication's 2012 move to consolidate operations and staff in Chicago.