30+ Credulous People Who Fell For Obvious Satire

Lately it feels like reality has become so unhinged and unbelievable that it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. On the other hand, some people are so eager to be outraged that they’ve lost the ability to recognize satire all together. Come on, everyone should know what The Onion is by now, right? Millennials: …
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Someone Made a Parody VR Simulation of Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

YouTuber and animator Surreal Entertainment created a parody VR simulation of Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse and it’s delightfully cursed. The 98 second virtual demonstration begins with a terrifying CGI version of Zuckerberg scurrying forward to welcome you to the Metaverse. He then offers you some Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce, which you decline. Mark does not …
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This Hilarious Twitter Thread Is Roasting The Way Male Authors Describe Women

Thank you, Literary Twitter for starting our new favorite hashtag challenge. The fun stems from the #OwnVoices hashtag, which addresses the voices of marginalized communities. The hashtag naturally had its critcs; among them was a male author that insisted he was living proof that men are capable of penning realistic female characters. After Gwen C. …
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College Student Entertainingly Parodies Money Influencers With Realistic Two Week Budget

Money is a controversial topic. It’s kind of scary and it can often seem like a lot of it is put in the wrong places, but it still makes the world go round, apparently. Managing our finances can be an intimidating job, and nobody knows that better than the money experts of TikTok. The #moneytok …
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A Guy Has Been Photoshopping Paddington Bear Into a Different Movie Every Day for Almost a Year

In 2014, Britain’s favorite marmalade-loving bear came to life in the first live action adaptation of A Bear Called Paddington, the classic children’s book by English author Michael Bond. On June 10th, 2014 a still from the film was released to promote Paddington. The picture featured a grinning CGI Paddington Bear standing in front of …
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20+ Posts From A Parody Facebook Group Where People LARP As Boomers

Anyone who’s on Facebook likely has boomer relative somewhere who uses the social network to ask for advice about creating PDFs, or accidentally makes public events instead of sending private messages, or complains about innocuous problems, like the neighbor’s dog barking too loudly. Well there’s a Facebook group called ‘a group where we all pretend …
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Unsettling Deepfakes of Tom Cruise Prove Technology Has Gone Too Far

What is a ‘deepfake?’ It’s essentially a convincing fabrication of a person’s likeness captured in a video or audio recording. Through powerful machine learning technology, an AI can take footage of a person’s face and replace it with a computer-generated one. There are plenty of YouTube videos demonstrating this tech with side-by-side comparisons of original …
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If Megachurches Were Honest | Honest Ads (Mars Hill, Hillsong, Bethel, Lakewood Church Parody)

There’s nothing quite like claiming your tax-free, multi-million dollar enterprise is inspired by an intentionally homeless, apolitical, friend of prostitutes who told religious leaders to pay their dang taxes.