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Welcome to uncanny valley

If you've used pretty much any type of social media , chances are you've seen those unhinged advertisements for games like Project Makeover, or games that involve living in a palace and trying to climb up the ranks to bang a prince. They usually involve a woman (or two), and a lot of dirt, grime, body hair and sometimes even weird sexual situations . Oh, and unexplained baldness. These advertisements are well documented over at the @MobileGameHell Twitter account. Last week, artist Julie Greine…

Many moons ago, when I was an internet-addicted high school student, I would see people with beautiful Livejournal layouts, profile photos, and backgrounds. Most were painstakingly created in Photoshop , dappled with effects that range from artfully old and coffee stained to seemingly glowing from within. The artists responsible would usually take commissions, either in the form of actual money or via trades. I could never afford such a luxury. Instead I became friends with other fan fiction en…

Memes both cultured & dank

Happy memories?

Talk about clickbait

“You can take the girl out of the dirt, but you can’t take the dirty out of the girl.”

Not every Pokémon item is worth a lot of money, so why not update it with a little unique artistic creativity? Pokémon fans on TikTok seem to be loving it!

Trippy

Art > Word games

The TikTok creator @peterdevito has already gotten 1.1 million likes for his stylish grandma and still growing. The 85-year-old is featured wearing several party hats and lighting a birthday candle like a cigarette. Though the TikTok creator only shared one photo so far from the shoot it went viral insanely fast. People are going wild for this cool AF grandma—commenting things like they wish she were their grandma or they wish to grow old and be like this grandma. The TikTok creator is a profes…

The British Museum in London is famous for more than just its historical and cultural significance. In 2019, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson told The Guardian that 'the trustees of the British Museum have become the world's largest receivers of stolen property, and the great majority of their loot is not even on public display.' Some of the museum's most famous stolen artifacts include the Elgin Marbles—a collection of classical Greek sculptures, Hoa Hakananai'a—a sculpture taken from Oro

Very abstract

Before the world became addicted to 'likes' and compulsively checking incessant notifications, the internet was a vast ocean of interesting websites, strange net art projects, and data experiments. It still is, in fact! Maybe we're just too glued to social media to notice. Thankfully, not everyone has forgotten what a special place the internet can be. @lucyhughes_PR recently created a Twitter thread of 'underrated' websites that deserve appreciation. Delighted by the recommendations, many other