Satire is a powerful tool. It’s funny, witty, and can be quite a challenge to the reader. It’s supposed to outrage and amuse, cause laughter and delight, prick your conscience and unveil uncomfortable truths — all at the same time. By its very definition, it aims to find the sweet spot between reality and absurdity. But for some people (read: naive), the line between satire and real news gets blurry — especially when they fall for these tales and share them as truth each day.
See, popular satirical news sites like The Onion are easily confused with the real deal. In fact, they are misunderstood so often that it even spawned a whole online community dedicated to ridiculing those who have been fooled. So let us introduce you to the wildly popular ‘Ate The Onion’ subreddit, a place collecting screenshots of people who failed to see the satire and immediately embarrassed themselves online.
No wonder the community has gained a cult following with over 553k members cringing over hilariously painful scenarios they stumbled upon on the web. So below, we hand-picked an entertaining collection of some of their best posts to share with you. Continue scrolling, upvote your favorite ones, and be sure to let us know what you think of them in the comments!
For some more outrageously funny and gullible reactions to non-existent events and ideas, check out Bored Panda’s earlier post about ‘Ate The Onion’ right over here.
#1 Hulk Was So Sexy They Ate The Onion
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#2 End Of An Era: The Blue Whale That Hangs From The Ceiling Of The Museum Of Natural History Has Died
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#3 :/
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#4 They Must Be Punished
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#5 Oem Recommended
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#6 Youngest Child Ever
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#7 Ate The Hamster
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#8 She Hopes It’s Not Real
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#9 Embarrassing: The U.S. Is Ranked 182nd In The World Alphabetically
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#10 Oh Boy, Former Coworker Eats The Onion With The Peel And Everything
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#11 Drank The Flat White Onion
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#12 Aviyah Doesn’t Understand Ethics
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#13 To Be Fair, It’s A Plausible Sounding Story
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#14 Fda Approves First Artificial Tumor
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#15 I Can’t Let This Bee Unseen
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#16 Vegans In An Uproar Over A Fake Article
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#17 Idiot Parents Know Nothing Of Games
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#18 Sorry To Burst This Bubble
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#19 Krispy Kreme Human Glazing
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#20 Just Don’t Hold It Down For More Than 5 Seconds
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#21 Stupid Baby
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#22 Photoshopped
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#23 Got Him
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#24 This Is Going To Take Years To Clean Up
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#25 Need👏🏾a👏🏾hobby
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#26 Grandma Took The Bee Too Serious
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#27 Woah! I Didn’t Know That!
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#28 I’m Beta Testimg This Update. Some Of My Friemds Said It’s Ummecessary But I’m Just Tryimg To Do My Part
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#29 The Comments On This One Are The Best I’ve Seen
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#30 Carl Weathers Took A Small Bite It Seems
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#31 Yes It Is
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#32 This Guy Is Nuts
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#33 Never Gets Old
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#34 A Friend Sent Me An Onion Tweet And I Thought It Was A Real Article
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#35 Surprise Surprise, A Sub Full Of Paranoid Narcissists Takes A Great Big Bite Out Of The Onion
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#36 Pretty Sure This Was From Something On Ifunny, But It Still Got Ate
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#37 Good Thing We Got That Cleared Up
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#38 He’s Clearly Never Lived In A Big City Before
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#39 Anime Pfp And All
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#40 Asked My Wife What She Was Raging About And She Sent Me This
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#41 Bit The Hard Drive?
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#42 Tom Cruise Kills 18 Civilians
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#43 Uoᴉuo Ǝɥʇ Ǝʇ∀
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#44 Nft
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#45 Obamna!
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#46 So Long Gay Bowser
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#47 Quote Tweeting A Comedian
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#48 Is She Bluffing?
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#49 I Uhm-
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#50 That Damn Pewdiepie Is Always Up To Something!!
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