A little illicit fun

We may have lost Yahoo Answers, but there are still places to find unintentionally hilarious stuff on the Internet. Quora is the obvious next best thing, but I think wikiHow gives 'em a run for their money. Quora seems to be filled mostly with a healthy combination of illiterates, nerds, and narcissists asking stupid questions and giving bad advice. wikiHow, on the other hand, is a place where “experts” give advice unprompted. And this advice is often, in turn, paired with some seriously weird…

WikiHow certainly has its merits. If you're having some problems, it is almost guaranteed that some kind user has decided to try to help the world through those problems, by creating a step-by-step guide complete with some…interesting images. Trying to cope with crippling anxiety? They've got you covered. Dealing with depression? Yup. Need to ask a loved one for forgiveness? There's certainly something for that. Even someone looking to get into the subculture of emo h as an instruction manual t…

Hmm

As children of the internet , it is our shared and slightly shameful open secret that we have all tried to learn a trick or two from wikiHow at some point. Almost as famous as the advice it gives are the pictures that go along with it. The distinctive watercolor-style illustrations can be a strange experience even when they are viewed within the context of the advice that they accompany. This makes them the perfect base material for image macros of all sorts, as @wikihowimagemacros has discover…

They're beautiful.

Mamma mia.