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
#2 Fake
#3 The Gay Ant That Makes You Gay
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 Hannes Can’t Trust Media Anymore Because Of The Onion
#5 Onion Recycled It But Never Short Of Onion Eaters
#6 Google AI Eat The Whole Websites
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 Maga Moron Nonsense
#8 Finally
#9 Dogg And Cat
#10 This Post Surprisingly Isn’t Satire
#11 A Refreshingly Harmless Chomp
#12 The Halfway Post Is Satire
#13 Reddit Bites Deep When It Comes To Confirming Their Own Biases
#14 Concerning
#15 On The Literal Onion Sub No Less!
#16 Meta AI Ate The Onion
#17 Got A Live One – Seen This In Several Subs Now
#18 Phone = Bad
#19 Out Of His Everything Mind?
#20 Checkmate, Atheists
#21 Irish Onions Are The Best Kind Of Onions
#22 Farty
#23 Some People Just Don’t Get The Appeal
#24 That’s A Big Bite
#25 They Ate The Onion
#26 Because R/Fingeredtheclickhole Isn’t A Thing
#27 This Is Just Sad
#28 Whoosh
#29 A Little Deranged
#30 AI Does Not Get The Concept Of Satire At All
#31 S. *. *. T
#32 What A Sick Man
#33 Ate The Coal And The Onion
#34 At Least It’s Half Taken Seriously
#35 Who Needs Brakes Anyway
#36 If The Shoe Fits…
#37 Twitter’s AI Ate The Onion
#38 He Was So Close To Getting It
#39 The First Time I’ve Ever Seen Someone Throw Up The Onion Rather Than Eat It
#40 Wtffhfhdhdj! I Don’t Understand Why Disney Would Do This 😢. Disney In 2024 Needs To Be Stopped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#41 Getting Stunged By The Babylonbee To Dunk On The Doomers
#42 The Daily Mail Took Natalie Portman’s Snl Rap Lyrics As A Truthful Account Of Her Time At College
#43 I Can’t Believe Biben Would Do This
#44 Ate The Obvious Plant
#45 Apparently Trump Is Gonna K**l Tom Hanks If He Wins
#46 God Would Never Curse🤮🤮🤮
#47 The Account That Commented This Is Ran By AI. Even AI Ate The Onion
#48 Why Though
#49 Gop Is Still Weird But They Fell For The Halfway Post
#50 Reposted To A Sub That Makes Fun Of The Downfall Of Society… I Guess They Are Part Of The Problem
#51 How Strange
#52 Onions Are Delicious
#53 Upset Voter Genuinely Thinks 75,000 People Voted For “Hawk Tuah”
#54 I’m Sure We Have, But Come On
#55 Toby Turner Apparently Eats The Onion
#56 Clayton Calls Bullshit On Tragedy Of 42 Million Victims
#57 Extra Burnt
#58 “Investigative Journalism” It Its Finest, Ladies And Gentlemen
