The long-running mystery of whose face was printed on a piece of fabric in 2008 has been solved. But to the untrained eye, it’s difficult to understand why anyone would care, let alone over 60,000 people on a subreddit. But this seemingly trivial microtrend is a case study of why the internet rewards just that: …
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Finding Community In Meaninglessness: How the mystery ‘Celebrity Number Six’ captured the minds of the internet
The long-running mystery of whose face was printed on a piece of fabric in 2008 has been solved. But to the untrained eye, it’s difficult to understand why anyone would care, let alone over 60,000 people on a subreddit. But this seemingly trivial microtrend is a case study of why the internet rewards just that: …
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Suggestive Images Curated by People Who Definitely Knew
It’s amazing what the human brain can infer from just a few simple cues. It can think that an inanimate object looks like it has a face, and make ridiculous comparisons between entirely unrelated concepts that somehow make perfect sense. Perhaps the funniest way in which our minds work (if we’re corrupted enough) is where …
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Best «If I Text You» Memes For People Afraid to Share Their Real Feelings
Words are difficult. We’re exposed to them all our lives, and most of us are expected to use them every damn day, yet those situations where we find ourselves tongue tied can happen all too often. There are millions of words in the English language, but even the biggest chatterbox can sometimes struggle to put …
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15+ Unfortunate Posts With Questionable Subtext
Nuance can be a hard thing to get right on the internet. It’s hard to get your full point across when you’ve only got words at your disposal, and more importantly there are plenty out there happy to interpret what you’ve said the wrong way. While it might not be easy to be on the receiving …
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