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: …
Seguir leyendo How The Celebrity Number Six Mystery Created Community In Meaninglessness
Categoría:mystery
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: …
Seguir leyendo Finding Community In Meaninglessness: How the mystery ‘Celebrity Number Six’ captured the minds of the internet
28 Memes for True Crime Aficionados to Enjoy During Their Internet Sleuthing Breaks
The true crime craze that’s taken over our lives might as well be deemed a cultural force. It’s as if everyone decided, «Forget the fantasy bestseller, forget the latest rom com hit, I want to hear about what really frightens me tonight,» turning our detectives and serial killers into our new knights and damsels. But …
Seguir leyendo 28 Memes for True Crime Aficionados to Enjoy During Their Internet Sleuthing Breaks
Real-Life Seafarers Share Their Haunting Tales From the Ocean
Ah, the sea. Nothing like the salty spray grazing your face, waves churning and rolling, inviting you to parts unknown. There is something endemic in humans that draws us oceanward. Maybe it’s an ancient instinct to find resources, maybe it’s the promise of adventure, or maybe it’s the pull of mystery. That’s the thing about …
Seguir leyendo Real-Life Seafarers Share Their Haunting Tales From the Ocean
Noir Memes For Mystery Solving Detectives Smoking a Pipe With a Femme Fatal on One Arm
I kind of wish that the film noir genre still existed today outside of Batman movies. Was I counting down the days until The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, came out? Absolutely I was. But do I wish that we had movies like Mildred Pierce coming out today? Again, absolutely. In the modern mind, noir mostly …
Seguir leyendo Noir Memes For Mystery Solving Detectives Smoking a Pipe With a Femme Fatal on One Arm
Scooby Doo Memes for Mystery Enthusiasts
The Scooby-Doo franchise is near and dear to many of our hearts. The property has existed for over 50 years in so many different variations. Whether you’re a fan of the original early 70’s run, the campy live-action movies of the early aughts, or whatever the most modern version of the show, it goes without …
Seguir leyendo Scooby Doo Memes for Mystery Enthusiasts
People Discuss Mysteries That Have Since Been Solved
Is it just me, or is the concept of an «unsolved mystery» redundant? A solved mystery is an oxymoron, which is precisely what we’re going to get into. One of my favorite recently solved mysteries is the identity of the Zodiac killer. The fact that there was a guy walking around for years who looked …
Seguir leyendo People Discuss Mysteries That Have Since Been Solved
True Crime Memes For Morbid True Crime Fanatics
There are a lot of true crime haters in this world, and frankly, I get it! Not everybody has the temperament and the willpower to watch or listen to hours of painstakingly long and graphic content about murders. When I was a teenager, I was far more interested in true crime documentaries about kidnapping cases …
Seguir leyendo True Crime Memes For Morbid True Crime Fanatics
Hilarious Benoit Blanc Tweets For Glass Onion and Knives Out Superfans
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times; British guys named Daniel love doing crazy southern accents. I feel conflicted on whether Daniel Day Lewis’s accent in There Will Be Blood is as insane as Daniel Craig’s accent as Benoit Blanc in Knives Out and Glass Onion, but it’s definitely a tight …
Seguir leyendo Hilarious Benoit Blanc Tweets For Glass Onion and Knives Out Superfans
True Crime Memes For Unashamed True Crime Fanatics
There are a lot of true crime haters in this world, and frankly, I get it! Not everybody has the temperament and the willpower to watch or listen to hours of painstakingly long and graphic content about murders. When I was a teenager, I was far more interested in true crime documentaries about kidnapping cases …
Seguir leyendo True Crime Memes For Unashamed True Crime Fanatics