Showing posts with label viral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label viral. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Backrooms infinity frame



Etsy.

Friday, May 29, 2026

The Backrooms in stained glass; McDonald's made a Backrooms short













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Wonderfully wholesome story about the World Cup





NYT's write-up


In other World Cup news:




And:

Monday, March 30, 2026

Funny detail about that Clavicular tweet that went crazy viral

Garbage Day:

we are now inundated with completely unproduced livestream clips ... Most of these clips are being made in the global south, where the small payouts from the platforms are enough to fund a content farm. For instance, the account that famously clipped Clavicular being framemogged by an “ASU frat leader” is called @biggerboy111 and it’s based in Nigeria. Which is why, I assume, that user didn’t know that frats don’t have a “leader” position, it’s called a president, and also didn’t know/care that ... the guy mogging Clavicular in the video, isn’t in a frat at ASU.

Monday, March 16, 2026

Clever video about Hopper's "Cape Cod Evening" (better without audio)



Here's a detailed article about the museum's social media strategy.
The idea for the video came from Sydni Myers, the Senior Social Media Manager at the museum
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Sydni caught Alison ["a 77-year-old curator of early European sculpture"], who she knew would be perfect for the role, as she was walking out of an all-staff meeting. Sydni asked if she’d be open to “rizzing up the internet with art history.” She remembers Alison pausing for a second and then saying, “If it helps bring attention to the sculptures, I’m in.”
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When I asked Alison if there’s a favorite phrase or term she’s learned from filming, she says, “How can you beat ‘The glow still slaps after 500 years!’”? That’s one of our main messages.”

Friday, March 13, 2026

Six stories about media manipulation









Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.

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— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
(A look at the design process) (Of course, In Dec. 2025, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent nixxed some of the quarter designs that were approved by then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during the Biden Administration for focusing “on DEI and Critical Race Theory policies.” )



EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

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— Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
("a secretive political organization called Democracy Unmuted...MS NOW found several recent creator videos that seemed to follow the Democracy Unmuted brief targeting Abughazaleh")



This is (a) wild (b) only scratching the surface, I suspect www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM




Tuesday, February 10, 2026

A look at the team that produced Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show

It’s been really fun to watch Bad Bunny’s “plant people” go viral. That was by design. The team behind Left Shark also came up with the idea to have the grasses be people. Production designer Bruce Rodgers had a feeling they’d get memed. He just knows these things. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

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— Angela Watercutter (@waterslicer.bsky.social) February 10, 2026 at 6:40 AM
(“Our team designed Left Shark, but as soon as that thing went viral, Katy Perry said she did it all,” Bruce Rodgers says, somewhat jokingly.)


Not a real Ikea campaign:

Thursday, November 27, 2025

"The ultralight gummy bear power bank just got yanked from Amazon"

I've seen it recommended by backpackers watching every ounce of their gear (can't remember if I posted about it, or maybe set a post in the future). Here's a write-up, and also there's a long thread:


Wednesday, July 23, 2025

A particularly good issue of the Garbage Day newsletter today, if you're interested in the latest parasocial nightmares

Three (massive) communities (I never come across)

A popular Substacker who summarizes author drama + an author who tried turning Harry Potter-inspired fanfic into a novel with the Potter stuff removed + a book convention that intended to feature the author

A UFC-related manosphere podcast that featured Israel's Prime Minister

A VTuber agency that's been accused of withholding funds intended for charity 

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The US women scored a very anime-style goal, as if they used the power of friendship; and Luna did the first viral tiktok dance for men











@greenscreens4memes #indonesianboatracing #aura #aurafarming #pacujalur #indonesia ♬ Young Black & Rich - Melly Mike


@kitaofficial.idn Replying to @๐“† the viral “Aura Farming on Boat” kid from Pacu Jalur Team Tuah Koghi! Now he’s answering our questions ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ”ฅ Pacu Jalur, ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉIndonesia’s living tradition ✨✨ #pacujalur #aurafarming #auradynamics ♬ Young Black & Rich - Melly Mike




A number of Guatemalan fans ran onto the field and one overzealous security guard decided it was her job to blindside deck people. It was, frankly, unnecessary — even if those fans should not be on the field.

— Paul Tenorio (@paultenorio.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Micro fiction documenting the War for Europa



Monday, August 19, 2024

Inspiring thread explaining how those Olympic chocolate muffins came to be sold in New York

Key statement: "i've never done anything like this before." Also, "i make my first 3way call. i feel like adam sandler in uncut gems."

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Bottleneck Gallery is selling a viral carousel horsehead pin for charity

"100% of all profits will be donated and posted after the sale to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation"




Also:

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Lego playset based on Jenny Nicholson's Starcruiser character and her archenemy

Saturday, May 18, 2024

"The firm run by a man dubbed 'Britain's kindest plumber' faked stories of helping people as it raised millions in donations"

BBC:

[He] has received letters of thanks from the late Queen and the King and a Pride of Manchester award. He has been a guest on Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, The One Show, Sky News and the Russell Howard Show

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[In one example, he] prevented one elderly woman from killing herself, the firm claimed. In fact, she had died years earlier.

He denied some of the BBC's allegations but admitted: "I've made mistakes."

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The story of how Facebook became engulfed in Christian content can be told through the rise of one site, catholicfundamentalism.com. 

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According to our data, provided by Newswhip’s real-time Facebook analytics, the vacuum of news content Meta created last year was quickly filled by religious content, or even just content that provoked vaguely religious reactions from users. 

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As for why Catholic Fundamentalism is now Facebook’s top “news” site, it posts the exact kind of content that the platform’s news feed has been tailored to promote: blandly positive, removed from any news or current events, and arriving on a frequent and regular schedule. 

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Funny article about Chinese brands on Tiktok being mystified by comments from Western shitposters

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One of these manufacturers is a company called Donghua Jinlong, which is headquartered in Hebei province about 200 miles from Beijing. It sells “high quality industrial grade glycine,” a type of nutritional additive that evidently sounds silly and abstract to people who never need to think about how processed food is made. Donghua Jinglong and its glycine have become a relatively big meme on TikTok, Instagram, and X 
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Donghua Jinlong itself, however, doesn’t seem to have any idea what’s going on. People in the comments keep begging it to make official merch, but the company doesn’t understand why anyone would want a sweatshirt or t-shirt with the name of an industrial manufacturer on it. Shitposters have also started referencing the Donghua Jinlong meme in the comments of videos from other Chinese factories.

A company called HengYuan, for example, posted a video of what can only be described as a machine for filling Tide Pods, and one of the top comments is someone asking “Could you pack food grade glycine in this?”


@gangstasportivik They’ve got their own core tech with a whopping 31 patents under their belt and a whole lot of production experience #mulldog #glycine #trustworthy ♬ High Quality Industrial Grade Glycine - ะ“ะฐะฝะณัั‚ะฐ ะกะฟะพั€ั‚ะธะฒะธะบ




Thursday, February 29, 2024

Lego set for the Glasgow Wonka experience




Below, a bunch more Glasgow Wonka-related nonsense, including versions added to The Sims, World of Warcraft, and Animal Crossing, and a performance art creature much creepier than The Unknown:

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Fan art of the Glasgow Oompa Loompas and evil chocolatier The Unknown








Here's a bunch more photos of the Oompa Loompa and other nonsense from the event: