25 Funny Times People Ate The Onion’s Fake Satirical News Headlines

The news headlines on our social media feeds are usually how we get a general idea of what’s going on in the world. But how reliable a method is this? When you consider how many clickbait titles there are, fake headlines or even satirical headlines, you realize that you have to be extremely discerning when disseminating this information. Recently, the Ate The Onion subreddit shared a host of fake news headlines that had garnered serious replies from gullible people. Scroll below to check out the funniest headlines that ooze satire but fooled clueless folk. 

#1 Dude Ate His Own Onion LOL

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#2 Woah Dude

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#3 Meta AI Ate The Onion

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#4 Only If You Look Veeeery Closely, Can You See It’s Fake

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#5 Because R/Fingeredtheclickhole Isn’t A Thing

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#6 Ice Was Not Frozen Enough

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me McG: This is actually a true story, but what they left out is she was unfortunately mauled to death by a shoal of piranhas, foiling the attempted rescue.

#7 What A Sick Man

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Guy-Incognito: Lol no shock they invoked “god”.

#8 Reddit Bites Deep When It Comes To Confirming Their Own Biases

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Tamra: Now this is believable.

#9 Om Nom Onions

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#10 Boeing 7.37

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#11 The Gay Ant That Makes You Gay

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#12 Why Though

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#13 Must Have Missed The Hashtags

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#14 A Refreshingly Harmless Chomp

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Enuya: Funny thing is I’m 75% sure that I’d seen this very photo in one of BP’s articles with “interesting history photos”.

#15 I’ll Sue You (For Satirical Twitter Posts)!

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#16 Just Don’t Hold It Down For More Than 5 Seconds

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#17 Got A Live One – Seen This In Several Subs Now

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Ru Bee: The raw potato bit is the best

#18 Spiraling Out Of Control

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#19 Clayton Calls Bulls**t On Tragedy Of 42 Million Victims

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het: It was mostly retail workers dying on the inside.

#20 The Website Formerly Known As Twitter Ate The Onion

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#21 Finally

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het: Of course this is satire. They actually use a trebuchet.

#22 Farty

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#23 OP Fell For It Hook Line And Sinker

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#24 Maybe Dash Mcintyre?

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#25 The Peasants Are Revolting!

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