ate the onion

The Onion has been dishing out satire since 1988. That's over thirty years. While they may have ceased to distribute an actual paper, their hilarious articles are very much in existence in the digital universe. And there are still stupid people who believe their (mostly) obvious joke headlines. 

Most of us are guilty of getting wooshed by obvious satire at some point in our lives, but some unfortunate souls out there post their indignant reactions to satirical headlines a little too hastily and end up on a subreddit called r/AteTheOnion, where stupidity is immortalized. We've got a bunch of facepalm-worthy examples of gullible schmos falling for satire so that you can feel better about all the times you felt like a fool. 

Hey look, we all experience brain farts from time to time, so we can't be too judgmental of the following people who unfortunately happened to have their snafus captured for snarky Reddit audiences to prey on.

Normally we think it's wrong to make fun of people's misfortunes, but these moments of incredible obliviousness were just too good to pass up. So scroll down to see some instances of people not quite understanding obvious jokes, and then click here for more "Ate The Onion" moments!

There are two camps of people in this world: people who understand satire, and people who...don't. 

The following facepalm-worthy posts exist solely as a reminder for you to always read up on the smallest amount of current events simply so you don't end up like these unfortunate people. RIP.

Most of us are familiar with the satirical stylings of "news" sites like Clickhole and The Onion that bring us that hilarious political and social commentary we all crave from time to time. Unfortunately however, some poor dummies just never got the "fake news" memo. 

The following are those people...

Sometimes people don't quite understand the satirical stylings of publications like The Onion or Clickhole. But that's okay, because we get this absolute gold out of it!

Some people just don't understand the wonderful art of satire.