16-year-old photoshops a picture of her 6-year-old brother with Daniel Radcliffe, finally tells him the picture was fake after 14 years: ‘His memory of the fake meeting felt so real to him that it became one of his proudest stories’

It’s unbelievable how easy it is to have a false memory. My family and I were recently discussing two disparate memories regarding my little sister, taxi cabs, and Broadway musicals. Everyone else remembers her saying, «Where’s my taxi?» after we saw Beauty and the Beast on Broadway when she was four. I remember her telling …
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‘It feels like I robbed him of a real childhood memory’: Sweet 16-year-old photoshops 6-year-old brother meeting Daniel Radcliffe thus implanting a false memory, brother freaks out when he finds out it’s not true 14 years later

Memory can be a slippery thing. They say that whenever you remember something, you’re not actually remembering the thing itself, but rather the last time you remembered it. So by this logic, the quality of the information slowly degrades with time– a photograph of a photograph for years and years until it’s just fuzz. So …
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30+ of the Best Harry Potter Memes of the Week (April 10, 2024)

I’ve loved watching the evolution of Harry Potter video games over the years. Even if you were a child of the aughts and grew up with the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone PS1 game, you can’t let nostalgia cloud your perceptions. Those games were extremely rough, and no amount of funny Hagrid graphics and …
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The Best Harry Potter Memes of the Week (August 29, 2023)

Sometimes I lie in bed at night and can’t stop thinking about how we’ll never know the true author of My Immortal. For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past 18 years or are older than 40, My Immortal is the most famous fanfiction of all time, and it …
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Skeptical Potterheads React to the Upcoming Harry Potter HBO Show

Oh boy, here we go again! I can’t wait to watch the exact same magical adventures of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but with slightly more details from the books! I was really missing all of the extra Quidditch practices and magical racism that they nixed from the eight movies, and I’m glad Warner Brothers finally …
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Weird Al is Being Celebrated For Telling Fans How to Pirate ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’

Musical parody genius Weird Al Yankovic has never been shy about his opinion on pirating media. His track «Don’t Download This Song,» which is a parody of «We Are the World’ style charity songs took pretty pointed aim at the legal battles surrounding music downloading sites such as Napster, and the stars (mainly Lars Ulrich) …
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Harry Potter Memes For Fans Who Think Ron Deserved Better

Ronald Weasley is a horrifyingly underrated character in the Harry Potter franchise. According to some sources, before the first Harry Potter movie came out, Ron was a much more popular character among fans than Hermione. Unfortunately, that changed quickly when the Harry Potter films turned Ron into a goofy comic relief sidekick with fewer heroic …
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Funniest «Weird Al» Yankovic Memes That Daniel Radcliffe Ain’t Got Nothing On

Do they look alike or not? It’s so hard to tell… How does one embody the hilarious character that is the brilliant «Weird Al» Yankovic?? And how does one look at Daniel Radcliffe and not see Harry Potter?… IT’S ALL SO CONFUSING! If you haven’t heard, Radcliffe is staring as Yankovic in the upcoming biopic …
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Programming Memes For Python And Java Fiends

Having a knack for computers is one of the most valuable skills someone can possess. Many people want to be programmers, but only a tiny elite group can actually pull it off successfully. A lot of wannabees think that since they changed their Tumblr theme with HTML in 2012 they can do this extremely difficult …
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‘March 2020 vs March 2021’ Memes Sum Up A Painful Year Of Pandemic

A lot can happen in a year. You can learn you’re pregnant and have a baby within that time span. You can get a divorce or travel the entire globe. Or, if you’re like most people trudging along with their lives lately, you can spend a whole year grappling with the effects of a pandemic. …
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