18 Of The Most Ridiculous Media Panics That Fooled Us All

There’s nothing like a good moral panic to sell news – and don’t the big media giants know it? It’s too easy to readily accept the latest panic sweeping the nation but some of them are borderline ridiculous. One company decided to challenge readers to do a quick search engine investigation to diminish the silliest panics and they gave $200 to the best one. The results are pretty interesting!

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Getting drunk through your arse

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The bullets to beat all bullets

3.

Yo dawg, heard you like porn so we put some porn in your porn

4.

This one will blow you away

5.

Bath bombs, now this…

6.

Groundbreaking bullshit

7.

Jesus Christ, bloody hell

8.

What a monumental bellend

9.

Codswallop

10.

Do you have an arse in your throat? Because you’re talking shit

11.

He took pot away!

12.

Pepsi is as good as crack, no?

13.

Good maths guys

14.

Blowing it all out of proportion guys

15.

Bullshit within bullshit, inception lies

16.

I thought I saw him in IKEA with Tupac

17.

Earth’s alright guys

18.

One I think we will all remember

I’m sure most of you didn’t need telling that the news isn’t always 100% the most reliable source, but these panics were so ridiculous we couldn’t do anything but laugh in the face of them. The media do love a good fuck-up though and these 37 WTF moments when news outlets mess up hilariously show that better than anything.