We don't want to come at people too harshly for getting wooshed by ambiguous jokes or falling for a fake headline that sounds like it could be totally real, but everyone should know what The Onion is by now. Most satirical news publications these days have the words satire, or fake, or not real news written somewhere to make the joke totally fool-proof. Well, never underestimate a fool.
We've got a bunch of great examples of times people fell for satire and 'ate the onion,' so to speak.
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!
"Hi. I'm Greta Lee Jackson, and I'm not a celebrity."
There are very few Instagram accounts out there that are better than Obvious Plant. We just really want to know where the hell they come up with their absurd content, because we're certainly not clever enough.
If you like it then check out more of their content from the source itself on Instagram!
"Donimo's Pizza" in Pyongyang, North Korea is our favorite new Facebook account run by some seriously dedicated trolls who apparently love clams and pineapple on their pizza. Not to be confused with "Domino's pizza" in the Unite States, of course. We'll just let you take a look at the account yourselves because it really needs no further explanation - nor can we give any further explanation for that matter.
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!
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...