Image via WikipediaMany Facebook users were utterly stunned to read the news telling them that the last four minutes of the famed Harry Potter’s movie series is going to be divided and played in seven different movies. It was obviously a fake prank by the notorious website, The Onion, which is popular for its fallacious headlines. The blog has been getting some very intense comments as the readers fall for the prank and believe the unbelievable news. Hudson Hongo, 24, is the humor writer who actually penned down this publication. Previously he wrote a humor article, titled ‘Planned Parenthood’ and was pretty surprised to see that many Facebook users were not able to recognize it as a joke. Hence he began poking around last week, and realized that there were a lot of public Facebook pages which were full of "Onion"-related confusions. He wrote on his personal blog that "When I found out that people were reacting the same way to many other Onion articles, I felt the phenomenon was worth documenting and put it up my blog."
One of the reader of his article commented: "Wow ... really? I guess it's one way to milk a franchise,” while another complained that "Eh, I've enjoyed the last few, but paying around $70 to basically see the end of one movie is a little sad." While responding to another such fake blog post titled "Abortionplex,” one user wrote "This is unbelievable," and another claimed that "THIS IS SICK ... really unbelievable that our taxes are paying for this!”
Hongo wrote in his personal post that "My favorite posts are the ones that express complete shock but not an ounce of doubt." His work has also been published among many other websites as well, including McSweeney. He went on stating that "'I can't believe this!' is a pretty funny response to something you should not believe."
He confessed that the funniest factor is to laugh at the naivety of the readers. He asserted that "I think folks are willing to believe Onion articles because the real news so often seems unreal these days." He also mentioned: "Add to that the publishers who write articles that are designed explicitly to incite and the line between the sincere and the satirical becomes vague."
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