the onion

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

Lately it feels like reality has become so unhinged and unbelievable that it's sometimes difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. On the other hand, some people are so eager to be outraged that they've lost the ability to recognize satire all together. Come on, everyone should know what The Onion is by now, right? Millennials: maybe it's time to educate that grandparent who uses facebook without supervision. Though, to be fair to all the grannies out there, even People Magazine and the President of the United States fell for some pretty obvious satire.

Although these painful woosh moments are mad entertaining, you gotta feel bad for some of these people—they go through life thinking the world is even more psychotic than it already is.

We feel sort of bad for these poor, gullible individuals who devoured satirical headlines from The Onion, but at the same time, they're providing us with a lot of entertainment, so we'll take it.

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!

We're no strangers to good mashups - we're still laughing about that Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Harry Potter combo - but this one just hits different. Twitter user @laurbarbq took to the site early this week to share nineteen brilliant pairings of Lord of the Rings movie stills and classic satirical headlines from The Onion. The results, as you can see below, work extremely well. And as both the movies and The Onion are pretty prolific, we're hoping to see more of these gems in the future. Lord knows we need the entertainment.

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.

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...

If you love memes as much as we do, then you'll definitely appreciate this roundup of random memes. Hell, even if you don't love them as much as we do, you'll probably still enjoy viewing these for a little chuckle. It's certainly a nice way to break up your boring day!

Sadly, Presidents Day weekend is about to come to a close. If you didn't have the luxury of having the day off, then our condolences to you. If you did, then you still get our condolences because now we're all back to that terrible grind we call life. Or just call in sick, who cares. 

(We can't be held responsible if your boss doesn't believe you.)