Satire is usually meant to be funny. However, it often serves a greater purpose too, providing constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
In the digital age, The Onion is probably the most prevalent satirical publisher—it produces articles on international, national, and local news. Even though The Onion ceased publishing its print edition in 2013, it has survived online where the company has been operating since the spring of 1996.
Occasionally, the serious, straight-faced manner in which The Onion “reports” on non-existent events, happenings, and ideas has resulted in people mistakenly thinking the stories are real news.
In fact, this started happening so often, it even gave birth to a subreddit, collecting screenshots of these gullible folks’ reactions. Continue scrolling and check out some of the top posts of r/AteTheOnion, which currently has over 509K members and has started featuring reactions to satire created outside of The Onion too.
#1 One Of The Many Reasons To Hate Sea World
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#2 Ate The Onion – Left The Cheetos
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#3 The Onion’s Bias Is Showing Again
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#4 Damn Liberals And Their Fake News About The Sun
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#5 Big Bollocks
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#6 Please Tell Me I’ve Finally Found One
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#7 Free Kidneys
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#8 I’m Done
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#9 To Be Fair, It Sounds Like Something He’d Say
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#10 Dont Worry I Told Her It Was Satire
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#11 Poor Christians. Don’t Know What Hit Them
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#12 Bunch Of Morons
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#13 You Know Who Else Didn’t Fight In Vietnam? Obama! Thanks Obama
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#14 I Don’t Think I Can Trust You Though
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#15 Please Help This Girl
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#16 Paw Patrol Gets Too Real For This Atetheonioner
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#17 The President Ladies And Gentlemen
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#18 Spray My Kids In The Eyes With Vinegar? I’m Open To It
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#19 Such Disrespect
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#20 One Giant Leap For Apekind
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#21 Since Posting, Someone Tried To Tell Her In The Comments And She’s Still Arguing
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#22 Is There Any Part This Guy Can’t Play?
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#23 Wake Up And Bite The Babylon Bee
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#24 Onion-Like, Still Ate It
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#25 At Least She’s Not Wrong
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#26 Found One Today
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#27 People Just Can’t Accept Facts
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#28 Dear Old Sarah Here Has Some Interesting Opinions About This Particular Movie Detail
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#29 Will Do Anything For Clicks
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#30 What In The Hell
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#31 How Can You Seriously Think This Is Real
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#32 Shared This On Facebook And All Of My Friends Are Freaking Out And Sending Me Frantic DM’s
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#33 What A Guy
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#34 Eye Enlargement Surgery
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#35 Defender Of Truth
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#36 I’ve Found My First In A While. Be Careful On The Roads
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#37 The Poster Doesn’t Quite Let The Number “42 Million” Really Sink In
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#38 You’d Think The Name Would’ve Given It Away
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#39 Please Be A Joke
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#40 Go Blow Your Noodle
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#41 She Might Actually Be Vegetarian Based On How She Ate That Whole Onion Raw
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#42 Americas Team
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#43 If I Worked At The Onion, My Office Would Be Full Of Framed Screenshots Like This
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#44 Idiocracy
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#45 I Finally Found One
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#46 That Person Who Replied Must Of Felt So Intelligent Writing That
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#47 What Are People These Days
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#48 That Sweet Sweet Babylon Bee
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#49 My Whole Timeline Has Been Quoting This Tweet
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#50 R.I.P. Big Show
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