This is why 2013 was very good for our ongoing series about complete lies that made headlines . And it looks like 2014 will be no different!

The Internet has pretty much turned every news outlet into a shady cocaine dealer -- constantly upping output by cutting pure, actual news with grains of fake viral stories , recycled urban legends , and unjustified mass panic .

5 Kim Jong Un's Uncle Was Not Eaten Alive by 120 Dogs

In what was no doubt a blessed way to start the New Year, many readers opened their browser January 1 to be treated to this coffee substitute:

worldnews.nbcnews.com

"Disney hurriedly scraps plot for gritty 101 Dalmatians reboot."

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That would be a headline from fucking NBC World News and not some random shit your cousin farted out on Facebook. It turns out that Kim Jong Un is only slightly crazier than we thought, because along with hanging out with Dennis Rodman, he also fed people to dogs.

The source? A single, notoriously shaky paper in Hong Kong, which, by the way, copied the story nearly word-for-word from a social media post by a popular Chinese satirist. So, OK, this was exactly like the random shit your cousin makes up on Facebook, only it ended up being reported as fact on the other side of the world. Speaking of which ...