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23 times people were hilariously fooled by comedy fake news

There are plenty of satirical websites and social media accounts out there, such as The Onion and Waterford Whispers.

It won’t surprise you to know that they’re quite often mistaken for genuine news – and that can lead to a starring role on Reddit’s r/AteTheOnion forum.

We gathered some favourites that are varying degrees of understandable.

1. The joke didn’t click with this guy


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2. They didn’t just double down – they trebled down


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3. THEY. RANG. SEAWORLD.


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4. Someone’s a Wii bit gullible


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5. She’s just all at sea


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6. Were they flooded with corrections?


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7. They’re boycotting Mattel


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8. We’d still eat those Cheetos

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9. The precious vaccine

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10. That’s a Hull of a mistake

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11. Is this the real reason he left Twitter?

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12. Something stinks about this

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