What gets the blame for this? People's bad senses of humor? Poor reading comprehension skills? Whatever the reason, there are real idiots out there who, upon reading an obvious joke headline by a known satire website like The Onion, will assume it's true and pollute the comments section with their own moronic take on a fake situation. And man are these people fun to laugh at. For more here's another bunch of softheaded nincompoops who believed satire.
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Before reacting to a headline, always check the source and make sure that you're not alerting everyone on your feed to the fact that you didn't understand an obvious joke. The Onion has been around for decades, but people still get duped by their joke headlines, like all the time.
These folks jumped the gun on whether the article they were reading was a joke or not. We get why they're so angry. Hell, we would be just as mad if we thought these headlines were real. The thing is, they're very obviously not. If you wanna see more people overreacting to more satire they didn't get, then check these out.
These angry mouth breathers got themselves livid over a whole bunch of NOTHING. Yes, they were quick to the draw when it came to calling out those iconically ridiculous, jokingly incendiary headlines that the Onion factory churns out. But they failed to slow down and recognize what was right in front of them-- a joke. And their failure to catch The Onion's jokes is our reward back at Fail Blog. If you want to check out more times people failed to discern The Onion's jokes, check here.
Just when you think people can't stoop low enough, they respond seriously to an Onion article. Is it a lack of critical thinking skills? Poor reading comprehension? Zero sense of humor? Bogus knowledge of the real world and an inability to distinguish between fact from fiction? Okay, yeah it's probably a combination of all of these. Anyway if you liked these then here's more times people assumed The Onion was trying to be a reputable News source.
Even after reading the absolutely insane headlines, these people didn't do a quick google search to find out if the Onion was a real newspaper. Imagine how confused you'd be if you just walked around thinking all of this was true?
How hard is it to discern between a news source and a humor website? Did these people leave their thinking caps at the door? That said, boy does it make you feel smart to be in on the joke when someone else is scratching their head.
