Woken News Network

About

Woken News Network (or most commonly referred as Woken News) is a satirical news website known for it's meme-related articles. According to a report done by Media Bias/Fact Check, Woken News "exclusively use humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues."

History

Founded in late 2018 by the Facebook Woken Memes administrator team, it gained over 100,000 visits weekly and been featured in prominent online publication sources in just it's first months (mainly due to a viral petition created by Woken News co-founder Danny Micheal Vaillancourt).

Change.org Petition

On January 27th, Woken News created a petition Make Shaggy A DLC In Mortal Kombat 11 on Change.org. The petition gained global virality and over 300,000 signatures in a week prompting a response from Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon and actor Matthew Lillard. It currently ranks #3 for 2019 (Worldwide) as the most rising Mortal Kombat 11-related search term enquiry according to Google Trends.

Notable Articles

Notable articles from Woken News that either gained trending status or had to get debunked because of it:

- Rocks Are Actually Soft and Squishy – They Just Tense Up When We Touch Them
- New Study Shows That Breathing Air Is Linked To Staying Alive
- Beethoven Was Not Deaf, He Had In Airpods™ And Everyone Around Him Was Broke, New Theory Suggest.
- Elon Musk Wants To Send A Team To Mars To Rescue Opportunity Rover
- Birds Are Drones And The Power Lines Are Actually Charging Stations
- Florida teen, Kyle, arrested for stealing Monster Energy drinks and punching holes in drywall at a Home Depot
- Millenials are killing the Doorbell Industry by texting 'here'
- Vegans now claiming that 'stuffing the turkey' to be sexual assault.

Awards

As of September 18th, 2019 Woken News Network ranks at the #17 spot on Feedspot's official Top 75 Satire Websites and Blogs on the Web satire list.