wikiHow’s anarchic aesthetic has attracted a cult following, inspiring a popular Reddit board, a lightly viral guessing game website, a currently dormant Twitter account, a frequently updated Twitter account, a surprisingly active Tumblr profile, and more than a few blogs. Still, beyond a trickle of unverifiable social chatter on Reddit, Quora, and Twitter, nobody seems to have been able to definitively answer the question “Who the heck makes this stuff?”
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It turns out, OneZero has found, that wikiHow sources its graphics from freelance artists around the globe, primarily concentrated in the Philippines. Freelancers told OneZero they had been recruited through contract work sites like Upwork and Indeed, and in one case described pay as low as $.40 per image.
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Over four years we ended up doing 1.4 million custom visuals, and those are live on over 150,000 of our articles. That’s a lot, and it’s taken a lot of manpower to make it happen, and we’re constantly trying to move the needle even further on that visual content.”
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Contracts with nondisclosure agreements could potentially be to blame for how few artists mention working for wikiHow publicly relative to the site’s humongous volume of illustration work.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
"We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art"
Winners of the World Universities Debating Championship requested their names be redacted from tournament records
SCMP:
A topic on Hong Kong democracy in the finals of the world’s largest international university debating tournament has caused a stir, after mainland Chinese spectators were said to have walked out and the winning team asked for their names to be removed from the records.From the organizer's statement:
The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) was held on January 3 in Bangkok. Organisers cancelled a live stream of the event midway.
About 30 mainland Chinese students and teachers who were in the audience left the venue after the motion “This House, as China, would grant universal suffrage to Hong Kong citizens” was announced, according to sources.
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The winning team [was] from the University of Oxford
We would like to take this moment to explicitly squash some rumours going around- There was no involvement or pressure from any national body, embassy or official to "make the finals go away". All decisions made were based on comprehensive discussions between the equity team, adj core and the relevant WUDC participants about what would be best for their welfare.
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Having been made acutely aware of how speakers in the final and some other members of the community felt, as a follow-up, we decided to proactively offer all teams and judges at the tournament the option to redact their status on the tab if they felt that it would put them in a compromising position.
"Brazil files homicide charges against Vale ex-CEO, 15 others in deadly 2019 dam collapse"
WaPo:
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed homicide charges against Fabio Schvartsman, the former CEO of the Brazilian mining conglomerate Vale, and 15 other people in the deadly dam collapse last year that killed at least 249 people.
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The prosecutor’s office said the charges followed a nearly year-long investigation that concluded the dam posed a critical safety risk since at least 2017, and the situation worsened in 2018.
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A different Vale-operated dam burst in Minas Gerais in 2015, killing 19 people and displacing hundreds.
When the Star Wars social media manager asks for feedback
A small sampling:
Starting to plot out some Star Wars social content for the year. What would you like to see on our social handles?— Michelle Buchman (@michelledeidre) January 21, 2020
(Let's keep in mind here I make zero narrative decisions nor do I have the power to do so.)
Things I can do: more BTS photos, trivia, info on characters, etc.
(Tweet deleted as poorly phrased regarding Tweets using #SaveBenSolo)
So if all we get is that, from the social media side if all we get are a bunch of angry people tweeting about that... the inclination is to just avoid it all together in favor of content that won't be so polarizing.— Michelle Buchman (@michelledeidre) January 21, 2020
I hear what you are saying but it’s a quality over quantity debate essentially. If a tweet gets 50K likes but the sentiment is overwhelmingly flagged by software as “negative” then I’m just being honest, you would probably think if you wanted to change up what is being posted.— Michelle Buchman (@michelledeidre) January 22, 2020
Not that I don't understand why folks might not agree with a narrative decision, and it's fine if you don't. But... social media is a numbers game and at the end of the day I have to meet certain engagement and growth goals in my job too!— Michelle Buchman (@michelledeidre) January 21, 2020
as someone who has been harassed and targeted personally by that group, i'm not trying to side with them and respectfully, take issue when folks try to group me in with them.— Michelle Buchman (@michelledeidre) January 21, 2020
Explain the reality of being a social media manager: get yelled at.— Michelle Buchman (@michelledeidre) January 22, 2020
Next time I'm just going to let everyone think a group of highly trained and skilled ants runs everything. It's less headache inducing.
Check out the crowd's reaction to the college basketball brawl
— no context college basketball (@CBBNoContext) January 22, 2020
Frame it, put it on the wall pic.twitter.com/4BzQmA5BMe— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) January 22, 2020
we almost had a chairshot pic.twitter.com/nY7fviM9zf— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 22, 2020
I think this is maybe the best angle of the Kansas - KState fight pic.twitter.com/jhMPiQTO7l— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) January 22, 2020
Ten funny tweets
Well, friends. This is what came in the mail. I’m gonna need something else, please. pic.twitter.com/42TjTrTh2j— Lynsey Mukomel (@lynseymukomel) January 17, 2020
Amazing clip from the Madison alcohol license review committee. You can’t write this stuff. pic.twitter.com/4xVtEOkI90— Zork! (@Zorknogg) January 18, 2020
Some nights I wake up screaming at the walls WATCHERS GET A SALARY AND SLAYERS DON'T— ❄🌲⛄ (@WearyWithToil) January 15, 2020
You love to see it 🙂— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) January 18, 2020
📰Full story, including quotes from Tapasa, by @marc_raimondi ➡️ https://t.co/KPGlWjpqo9 pic.twitter.com/YVFwQGf7Dt
Me, in my teens: This radio station is playing my jams.— Jessie (@mommajessiec) January 17, 2020
Me, in my 20s: This bar is playing my jams.
Me, in my 30s: This grocery store is playing my jams.
ASSASSINA pic.twitter.com/QjnvdYOnmW— amadà (@amadoit__) January 18, 2020
in the middle of the night yesterday i realised i have an exact formula for how i figure out what my dnd character du jour's motivation is gonna be pic.twitter.com/Cud1OlLKxs— Mari Costa (@marinscos) January 19, 2020
When I was a wee emo this guy asked me out - I didn’t hear from him on the day till he texted me saying sorry & that his bat had died😪 so I got him a condolence card & a present and took it to the date like I’m so sorry about ur pet bat & he was like no I meant my phone battery https://t.co/pur9ENV6SE— holly x (@hollyshortall) January 19, 2020
Nick Gage is for the children.— Trisha Parker (@JordynneGrace) January 19, 2020
This is adorable. https://t.co/asuvuBnOd8
woke up to a text from my mom about how a wild elephant went into a Sri Lankan hotel and gently wandered around while poking stuff with his trunk pic.twitter.com/C2biQT8C30— Upuli 🇱🇰 (@upidaisy) January 19, 2020
*More funny posts.
Later life accomplishments
I am now going home not only with a huge smile on my face but thinking that everything is still very much possible. (2/2)— Justin Heckert (@JustinHeckert) December 29, 2019
The Princess Bride is on E4 at the moment, so I figure this is a good time to tell you that Margery Mason, who played the woman who boos Buttercup, took up SCUBA diving late in life and got her diving certificate at 81, so there's plenty of time for you to do whatever you fancy— Al Kennedy (@housetoastonish) December 29, 2019
About ten years ago my wife and I had our "mid life crisis" and decided to quit our jobs and just goof around for a while.— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) January 14, 2020
Since then, she's gotten a BA in Architecture and a PhD in engineering, and I've produced nine books and five seasons of a TV show.
We failed at our goal.
We each have our own PS4 and TV. Split screen is for amateurs.— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) January 14, 2020
We do sit on the same couch, though. https://t.co/Q4gVf83ZO0
Monday, January 20, 2020
"How Tiffany Moved 114,000 Gems Without Getting Robbed"
NYT:
Tiffany was emptying its 10-story fortress for a long-planned renovation. The merchandise had to travel only 50 feet or so
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They watched as the jewelry was rolled along the sidewalk in distinctive carts with robin’s egg-blue tambour doors.
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But if the carts were somewhat showy, they were also meant to be secure. They had locks that were checked and rechecked, and before each cart was pushed onto the sidewalk, it was sealed in plastic shrink-wrap.
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Tiffany hired a company that tracks social media and provided a list of key words like “move,” “727 Fifth Avenue”
Class struggle at the Australian Open
So this is the moment where Elliot Benchetrit asks the ballkid to peel his banana. I’m glad the umpire (John Blom) stepped in and told him off. pic.twitter.com/TK1GET68pG— Alex Theodoridis (@AlexTheodorid1s) January 19, 2020
So Benchetrit wrote on Twitter that #Bananagate is only a 10-second video and that it doesn’t show the whole situation.— Alex Theodoridis (@AlexTheodorid1s) January 20, 2020
Well, below is the entire sequence (33 sec) which shows exactly what happened. The blaming-social-media-card is not gonna work... https://t.co/RGmIJYz2cE
And more tennis news:
Did you see what he looked like walking onto court? pic.twitter.com/YQIlbU0NYD— Lisa Nham (@lisa_nham) January 20, 2020
New Hot Toys John Wick comes with a pencil
The new Hot Toys John Wick figure comes with an arsenal, including a pencil.
Also, the brand new Funko toy reveals are available for preorder, including Vader in his meditation chamber.
Ten funny tweets
If you aren’t someone the church would’ve killed 400 years ago are you even living?— lexi (@badtinglexi) January 16, 2020
Prince Adam should be scared of being He-man in the same way Aang was scared of the Avatar state— constant badthoughts (@allwrongthink) January 18, 2020
i reckon the huge lad from the past also commissioned the pool table pic.twitter.com/VvgETmSvEb— jini 🕸 (@astroblob) January 15, 2020
Kids in my classroom just called a Oujia board "ghost google."— Myriam Chingona Gurba de Serrano (@lesbrains) January 17, 2020
They made an action figure of the freaking wind, this has ended me pic.twitter.com/P556Xx3jwA— Jenny Nicholson (don't talk to me about star wars) (@JennyENicholson) January 19, 2020
EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS COFFEE ADVERTISEMENT pic.twitter.com/oqpNvBAcXa— dante (@sapphicticated) January 17, 2020
netflix: are you still watching— conscious robot (@robots_feel) January 17, 2020
me: no but i cannot be left alone with my thoughts
Attention all Centaurworld coworkers pic.twitter.com/liImdFGj8g— Madeleine Flores (@busted_mountain) January 17, 2020
he was there,,,, pic.twitter.com/HJerVRcoER— Kakyoin's refurbished commodore amiga 500 (@W0Odruff) January 15, 2020
LEGEND OF THE DRUNKEN CORGI pic.twitter.com/MBKZymIaLh— Francesco Francavilla (@f_francavilla) January 18, 2020
*More funny posts.
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