20k Leagues Under the Internet

Everyone gets a little lonely now and again so of course there's an app for that. Luka designed an AI chatbot to keep you company with the intent on creating something akin to the plot of Her but ended up closer to Ex Machina. 6 Million users ended up in hyper-sexual relationships while using Replika, many of whom did not ask for their 3D avatars to hit on them.

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If you don't like doing something, make it fun! Add 6 pumps of sucralose to your 40oz of water in your Stanley Quencher and boom. Drinking water is fun now. #watertok has taken off and a whole community of beverage girlies has flocked to get their stainless steel mugs and syrup bars and made it their whole personality. The worrying part is the delusion that these "sugar free" Skinny Mix syrup combinations, like Mermaid Juice and Un...

In 2003, Joel Veitch got drunk and wrote a song about how much he and his brother loved the moon. They animated it with two homunculus rodents made up of seven different animals and shoved in on the internet. Shortly after it went viral, Ty Harper, a marketing director stumble across it on Rathergood who thought the psychotic varmints would be the perfect spokes-things to sell Quizno's sandwiches. It did not go well.[body]

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You've never seen a goat eat trash and cigarettes like Biquette! After being adopted by a punk in France, Biquette (which just means 'goat' in French) became a local legend. She befriended the grindcore band Wormrot, would often sleep next to the speakers during shows, and eat cigarettes right out of peoples hands. She loved paint and the leftover backwash of old booze and obviously died at 10, half as long as most normal goats liv...

The Wheel has returned from the depths with a new way to torture us. This time with the most disturbing products Amazon has to offer, many of which make us question all that we knew about e-commerce and trade. Eight items have been placed on the wheel which is spun thrice. We must then delve into the product images and user reviews and accompanying media in an attempt to understand why they exist at all. We

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t's hard being an artist. Musicians have to tour in beat up old vans and play shows at Denny's just to break even. But upon Spotify's launch, it seemed musicians had a real opportunity to take advantage of the internet and streaming to finally make a living. Until Spotify decided they'd just hire their own musicians to make music on their behalf and take 100% of the revenue which is definitely not embezzling. Other "artists" have c...

This week we explore Dong Nguyen and his personally and publicly reviled mobile game, Flappy Bird. A talented independent game developer, his innovative game eventually consumed and destroyed him and he could not bring himself to realize a kind of fame and fortune the average person can only dream of achieving. Flappy Bird took the world by storm and became one of the most popular games of all time. But the overwhelming success ult...

We forget sometimes that the internet isn't used by civilians alone for memes and forums, but also government agencies. We use it to do our taxes and tweet at the President our dissatisfaction as if he's actually gonna read it. The government also uses it to recruit young people into the military. Normally it was with video montages encouraging you to "Be all you can be", but with the proliferation of memes as a language of their o...

With a new documentary coming out next month from CNN about HQ Trivia, we thought we'd look into exactly what happened. Thanks to Sarah Pribis, one of the original hosts during the companies beta, we have some details about what actually happened. Infighting, greed, drugs, mutiny, and general mismanagement plagued the company almost from the start and HQ folded only three years after launch.

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Pantalone, an art collective, and Dungeons & Dragons. Kyle has found another obscure internet relic of a man in a golden devil mask ominously shouting random prices for what is ostensibly junk at a yard sale in Denton, Texas. So what is going on here? Well, the Good/Bad Art Collective in the early 2000's did many bizarre and similar "stunts" or I suppose since they're artists they might call them "installations". None of the pr...

It's okay to have hobbies and interests until they become compulsive obsessions that ruin you financially. It's not really okay to ignore all the awful things corporations do in order to live out some bizarre childhood fantasy as a way to not deal with the ones own personal issues. Disney Adults have been accused of forfeiting their own mental and physical well being so they can get a look at Gaston's pecks, or in some cases straig...

Conspiracy theories are more popular than ever thanks to the rise in popularity of Tiktok where misinformation spreads like wildfire. One conspiracy in particular gained traction recently about how the Titanic didn't actually sink, probably due to James Cameron being in the news regarding Avatar 2 and his connection to the Titanic with his 1997 film called, you guessed it, Titanic. Anyway, none of them are real and they are all ver...