Wikipedia editors must be a very special breed. It’s funny – I never really think about the people who fill the entries with information. Despite the many warnings of my old professors, I kind of take it for granted that I’m reading truthful facts about whatever subject I happen to be diving into. And while …
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Companies Tweet One Word Summarizing Their Brands After Official Amtrak Account Accidentally Tweets «Trains»
Being on Twitter in 2018 could be a painful experience for various reasons, but none more painful than the never-ending onslaught of brands trying to be funny. You really had to be there, but if you weren’t, you are one of the lucky ones. Twitter brands would try to start beef with each other, form …
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Funny Out of Context Moments From the Deepest Corners of Wikipedia
Wikipedia; the fountain of forbidden knowledge. Is it accurate? Is it all made up? Who cares! Wikipedia was founded in 2001 and has been an essential tool for researchers of the online persuasion ever since. If you grew up in the 2000s, you remember being told by your teachers not to use Wikipedia unless you …
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20 Funny & Out-of-Context Wikipedia Gems
Have you ever taken a real good look at the list of contents in a Wikipedia article? Sometimes the highly specific subcategories can imply a pretty peculiar series of events. @ZeeZeeMooMoo posted a screenshot of a Wiki’s table of contents out of context, prompting others to do the same. Take a look at some of …
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Weird & Funny Times Memes Crash-Landed Into Wikipedia Entries
Wikipedia is a veritable treasure trove of meme-able information. The mere act of falling down a «hole» of procrasturbation and information has been tweeted and meme’d for years. While the pursuit of both obscure and basic knowledge is undoubtedly noble, sometimes we prefer Wikipedia pranks and memes to the real thing. Instead of dry information …
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20 Funny and Out-of-Context Wikipedia Gems
Have you ever taken a look at the list of contents in a Wikipedia article? Sometimes the highly specific subcategories can imply a pretty peculiar series of events. @ZeeZeeMooMoo posted a screenshot of a Wiki’s table of contents out of context, prompting others to do the same. Take a look at some of the funniest …
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Girl Shows Her Great Uncle Wikipedia, Starts Wholesome Discussion About Older Generations And The Internet
As digital natives, it’s easy to fall into the habit of complaining about the internet. It often feels like it sucks up a lot of our time for no good reason, and there are plenty of valid criticisms to be made about misinformation, abuse and screen addiction. However, when thinking about our own online experiences …
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Amusingly Weird Gems Found in the Depths of Wikipedia
We don’t have to tell anyone that Wikipedia is an invaluable wealth of interesting information and historical facts. But have you ever gone down a deep Wiki k-hole? It’s like diving down to the ocean floor and discovering creatures of the unknown. For example, did you know ‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo’ …
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Strange, Mundane And Charming Excerpts From The Treasure That Is Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an institution. It knows almost anything about everything, to the extent that if it doesn’t show up on the first page of most Google results it feels like it’s a problem. Every teacher who ever disapproved of it for being ‘unreliable’? They were bewildered by its gift for cutting homework time in half. …
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24 Comically Clever ‘TL;DR Wikipedia’ Posts
Everyone’s favorite crowdsourced web encyclopedia has been reimagined by the clever minds behind @tldrwikipedia, who took the familiar aesthetic of Wikipedia and turned it into a brilliant meme format for joke-telling. The memes come across as if someone really lazy, sardonic, and maybe a little drunk had written all the entires for Wikipedia. We’ve collected …
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