Thank God for The Onion and other brilliant satirical publications like it. While their headlines are certainly always hilarious, the icing on the cake is always those who take the bait and believe every word. Do we feel moderately bad for people who fall for the satire? Sure, but we also appreciate the hell out of them for providing us with endless entertainment!
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Are you sick and tired of your typical run-of-the-mill 2020 presidential candidates? If so, then Ace Watkins might just be your man. He's campaigned himself as being America's first gamer president, and has vowed to represent one of America's "most misunderstood political demographics." He's even collected more Twitter followers in one week than democratic candidate John Delaney.
We're sad to report that "Ace Watkins" actually started out as a fake presidential campaign, but who knows, maybe he'll run for real if he gets enough serious support? We'll keep our fingers crossed and our eyes peeled for more incoming memes and tweets!
We already knew that Australiais an incredibly bizarre place full of strange accents, rampant use of the C-word, and "Macca's." This tabloid, Northern Territory News, definitely isn't helping to mitigate those stereotypes, but at least we get some entertainment out of it!
We think Australia kind of puts Florida to shame in the WTFdepartment, so we halfway expect to see "Australia Man" news headlines on the reg here pretty soon.
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...
Pakalu Papito has to be one our favorite Twitter novelty accounts ever. If you haven't yet had the joy of scrolling through his account, he's an Indian gas station clerk who tweets hilarious things about his ex-wife, his camel and the single life.
Click here to view more of his ridiculous Twitter antics straight from the source!
If there was ever any compelling evidence that the moon landings never happened, then this is it, folks. You heard it here. No human ever landed on the moon and this guy proved it with a cornucopia of evidence.
Check out David Hughes' Twitter account for even more space-related conspiracy theories.
The Onion has been a satirical publication 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.
JK Rowling, the queen of drawing out random details of the Harry Potter franchise, is back in the limelight for, well...drawing out random details of the Harry Potter franchise - details that absolutely no one asked for, of course.
She told Radio Times last week that Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald had an "intense and passionate" relationship that had a "sexual dimension to it." Of course, her actual statements got twisted in subsequent reports, but the roasts and parody tweets that have come from it are absolutely still valid!
Biology and evolution are pretty crazy, and these tweets point out just how absurd some specimens of the animal kingdom really are. Like, for real, who the hell decided to give spiders butt ropes? Were they not already terrifying enough as is? On the bright side, thank God they can't fly though, amirite?
Some more Funny Tweets here.
If there was ever an appropriate time to utter the old Southern saying "bless your heart," it's right now. It's probably safe to say that most people in the English-speaking world are familiar with the troll-y ways of publications like The Onion or Clickhole, yet some naive souls, like the following, never got the memo. It's totally okay to laugh now and feel sorry for them later.
