What is your most embarrassing "ate the onion" moment? - eviltoast

A few days ago I shared some news that the Eurovision song from Israel would be named “Your land is mine now” to later realize it was from an onion kind of website, lol.

I hope I’m not alone in this kind of f’up.

  • Thavron@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    It kinda was a big deal back then. This was the early days of mainstream internet hoaxes and a lot of people actually believed that shit (my teenage self included).

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      9 months ago

      a lot of people actually believed that shit

      Wot. Srsly?

      Wow, looks like I hit the Internet really, really early. Because by the time that stuff came out, I laughed myself silly at how ridonkulous it was.

    • Destroyer of Worlds 3000@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Early internet joke/hoax sight was “drill a hole in your head”. pictures of people with drills in hand and bloody bandages looking all blissed out. I think it was shocking for some because the internet was so new people didn’t think you just blatantly lie without a disclaimer.