Fake news site thanks ‘gullible Trump supporters’ after reaching 1 million views

[bsnub]

This is epically hilarious. You have to go to the actual website and read some of the comments these idiots made after realizing they have been clowned. Hilarious...



The owner of a fake news website reached an impressive milestone this month. Just after a week of being in operation, The Underground Report received about a million viewers, and “hundreds of thousands of Likes and Shares on Facebook.”

In a post to his site this March 3, TUR’s owner James McDaniel took time to thank the “gullible Trump supporters,” who, without their inability to decipher fact from fiction, made the milestone possible.


McDaniel mentioned how the website’s disclaimer points out that TUR is a “news and political satire web publication” didn’t stop readers from embracing his stories as fact.


“So whether you are angry about Obama’s pedophile ring that he ran out of the White House, or Whoopi’s statements about US military widows, calm down… and grow up; neither ever happened,” he wrote.


McDaniel had no idea how much the site would take off when he started. According to him, he wanted to write stories that “no one would believe” as a satirical take in an age where disinformation is so prevalent. For his own amusement (he claims), he started posting links in Trump fan groups on Facebook, and that’s when things got out of hand.

“To my surprise, the Trump masses embraced my stories as fact, almost universally,” he said. “It seemed that there wasn’t anything I could write that was too wild or outrageous to be believed by this particular audience. If I wrote about CNN being fake news and connected to ISIS, readers would agree wholeheartedly with my fabricated article.

If I wrote about a black liberal or Obama supposedly saying something controversial, the response was unbridled racism and hatred. When I wrote about Hillary Clinton’s new emails that proved she was a child sacrificing maniac, people screamed for her head.

I was startled that in today’s world, so many could be so willfully ignorant. It’s truly a frightening time when a group of people screaming, “FAKE NEWS!” at the top of their lungs, live, eat and sleep falsehoods.

McDaniel could have carried on his ruse, but from a moral standpoint it was something he claims he couldn’t continue.


“…I find it morally necessary to clean up this mess, for a society that loses the ability to distinguish fact from fiction is a society vulnerable to anything.”

The comments on the post were a mix of angry Trump supporters and people gloating in the schadenfreude, but I found this brief exchange to amusing:




Direct link to the site;

BREAKING: Satire Makes Fools of Gullible Trump Supporters | The Underground Report

[Maanaam]

Classic.
Pity he pulled the plug. Should have waited for the ten million mark as it wouldn't have taken long.

[bsnub]

Pity he pulled the plug.

No doubt. I really wish more of these sites would do this. So many stupid people in the US.

[wasabi]

A million views does not make a million followers. Fake James Mc Donald's farm story sucked up by desperadoes.

[bsnub]

A million views does not make a million followers.

Heh! You lot still got owned.

[buriramboy]

Yawn as yet another American political thread is started by the forum retard, are you banned from all American forums?

[bsnub]

Yawn as yet another American political thread is started by the forum retard

Maybe we should start a poll as to who fellow forum members would consider the bigger retard? You fake news readers got clowned by this guy.

[buriramboy]

Yawn as yet another American political thread is started by the forum retard

Maybe we should start a poll as to who fellow forum members would consider the bigger retard? You fake news readers got clowned by this guy.

Go for it but don't start crying if you don't like the results.

[wasabi]

you obviously aren't aware of how Facebook works, how comments and likes are used to increase viewing figures.
Now if this story is about how Facebook tricks its readers into liking and sharing to increase its readership then that would be true news.

[bsnub]

you obviously aren't aware of how Facebook works, how comments and likes are used to increase viewing figures.

Sorry pal now you are way out of your league. I live in Seattle and work in the tech industry. Of course if something is shared and liked it becomes more likely to pop up in peoples feeds. That has nothing to do with the fact that these people are liking and sharing obvious fake news. Are you that dense?

Now if this story is about how Facebook tricks its readers into liking and sharing to increase its readership then that would be true news.

Oh so FB tricks gullible readers into liking fake news? You really are fcuking moron.

[bsnub]

Go for it but don't start crying if you don't like the results.

Challenge taken. The members thread will begin prepare for a thrashing.

[harrybarracuda]

Since I started this website last week, we have had:
– More than 1,000,000 visitors to our site
– Thousands of comments on our stories
– Hundreds of thousands of Likes and Shares on Facebook
– And a very small handful of people questioning the legitimacy of our stories, despite a disclaimer at the bottom of the page stating that our stories are not based in reality. Although, one would think the ridiculousness of the stories would not necessitate a disclaimer.

Thick as shit those trumpkins eh?

[bsnub]

That butt is hurt.