10 Internet Hoaxes That Fooled the World
Here are some infamous Internet hoaxes that fooled everyone!
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The internet has become a massive space for networking, where people can share and exchange news and ideas in real time. If you’re a critical thinker, then you probably do just fine browsing the internet and reading the news. However, there are a select few who are very gullible and can be tricked into thinking that imaginary things are real by just a click of the button. Thanks to the potential of posts going viral, nothing has to be true or legit anymore in order for it to go viral. All you need is a topic that will rile up a large group of people, good or bad. Exposure is better than none at all, as they say. Many of these hoaxes involve something out of the ordinary, or involves a celebrity in whom people want to show their support for. It’s a funny thing in the end once a hot topic has been exposed as a hoax.
The first hoax that took the world by storm was the “Bald for Bieber” movement in 2012 when people thought that Justin Bieber was diagnosed with cancer, according to a Twitter account that looked like it was from Entertainment Tonight. Thousands of people shaved their heads and posted it on social media to show their support for Bieber. It didn’t take long for Reddit to realize that the whole thing was a hoax, and it was eventually exposed. Imagine how all those newly bald people must have felt when they realized they shaved their head for nothing!
In 2007, a web channel called Household Hackers posted a video depicting the possibility that you could charge your iPod using an onion. The concept became such a huge hit that even the television show, “Mythbusters” covered it. It was eventually realized that you really couldn’t charge an iPod with any kind of produce. Speaking of viral videos, a channel made by the user Lonelygirl15 told the story of a girl whose family seemed to have been involved in the occult. The series was strongly believed to have been real until it came out that it was a fictional web show in 2006.
Videos seem to be the source of the most gullible and widely believed hoaxes. Take for example the video that showed an eagle that seemed to snatch a human baby and then drop it. People all over the world were horrified and vowed to keep their babies away from the outdoors and keep a watchful eye over eagles. However, the video was proven to be the result of a 3D project from a class in Montreal. Speaking of babies, there was a hoax about Ryan Gosling out in the world that involved him taking over custody of a friend’s baby after they died, but then he lost the baby to an absent father. Gosling eventually had to tell the world the hoax wasn’t real, but fans still loved him.
Amazingly enough, the hoaxes don’t stop here. In order for people to believe a widespread myth, all it takes is a good performance, a convincing piece of technology, and a good story behind it, and you have yourself a perfect hoax.
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