Despite the fact that “you can’t believe everything you read online” being common knowledge (and sense) basically since the inception of the internet, millions of people still find ways to fail the very simple test of not publicly reacting to obviously not-real stories.
We’ve gathered some hilarious examples of people taking a satirical “news story” at face value and writing exasperated comments. So get comfortable as you scroll through, remember to always double check information, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments below.
#1 Many Onions Being Eaten Here
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#2 Hannes Can't Trust Media Anymore Because Of The Onion
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#3 Maga Moron Nonsense
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While it might seem positively archaic now, the Onion was actually founded as a print newspaper in 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin. This means there are some folks out there in the Midwest who probably still have physical, pre-internet copies of the Onion. That itself sounds like a joke or prank, yet here we are.
It only moved to New York in 2001, with its debut edition coming out on the 27th of September of that year. It mostly focused on the September 11 attacks, and ended up driving a lot of attention and traffic to its web version, which to this day remains what the Onion is best known for.
#4 Fake
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#5 A Refreshingly Harmless Chomp
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#6 Finally
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If the idea of a print version of the Onion is still shocking, five years later after their New York debut, they had a circulation of over 500,000, which no doubt led to a lot of very confused looks from passersby for folks enjoying the paper on the subway or in a park. Unfortunately, screenshots only exist online, so there were probably many hilarious moments that were lost to the ages.
#7 The Gay Ant That Makes You Gay
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#8 Google AI Eat The Whole Websites
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#9 Onion Recycled It But Never Short Of Onion Eaters
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#10 Phone = Bad
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#11 On The Literal Onion Sub No Less!
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#12 Out Of His Everything Mind?
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#13 Farty
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#14 The Halfway Post Is Satire
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#15 At Least It's Half Taken Seriously
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#16 AI Does Not Get The Concept Of Satire At All
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#17 Got A Live One - Seen This In Several Subs Now
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#18 Checkmate, Atheists
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#19 Concerning
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#20 Meta AI Ate The Onion
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#21 Because R/Fingeredtheclickhole Isn’t A Thing
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#22 Whoosh
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#23 S. *. *. T
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#24 Dogg And Cat
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#25 A Little Deranged
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#26 This Is Just Sad
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#27 Irish Onions Are The Best Kind Of Onions
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#28 They Ate The Onion
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#29 What A Sick Man
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#30 He Was So Close To Getting It
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#31 The Daily Mail Took Natalie Portman's Snl Rap Lyrics As A Truthful Account Of Her Time At College
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#32 Getting Stunged By The Babylonbee To Dunk On The Doomers
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#33 Ate The Coal And The Onion
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#34 This Post Surprisingly Isn't Satire
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#35 That's A Big Bite
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#36 Reposted To A Sub That Makes Fun Of The Downfall Of Society… I Guess They Are Part Of The Problem
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#37 Reddit Bites Deep When It Comes To Confirming Their Own Biases
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#38 The First Time I've Ever Seen Someone Throw Up The Onion Rather Than Eat It
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#39 Who Needs Brakes Anyway
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#40 Ate The Obvious Plant
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#41 Some People Just Don’t Get The Appeal
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#42 God Would Never Curse🤮🤮🤮
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#43 The Account That Commented This Is Ran By AI. Even AI Ate The Onion
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#44 Why Though
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#45 If The Shoe Fits…
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#46 Onions Are Delicious
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#47 Toby Turner Apparently Eats The Onion
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#48 Upset Voter Genuinely Thinks 75,000 People Voted For "Hawk Tuah"
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#49 Twitter's AI Ate The Onion
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#50 Wtffhfhdhdj! I Don’t Understand Why Disney Would Do This 😢. Disney In 2024 Needs To Be Stopped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#51 I Can't Believe Biben Would Do This
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#52 Apparently Trump Is Gonna Kill Tom Hanks If He Wins
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#53 I'm Sure We Have, But Come On
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#54 Gop Is Still Weird But They Fell For The Halfway Post
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#55 How Strange
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#56 Clayton Calls Bullshit On Tragedy Of 42 Million Victims
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#57 Extra Burnt
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#58 "Investigative Journalism" It Its Finest, Ladies And Gentlemen
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