Welcome to Crowdfunded Culture, a new bi-weekly Flavorwire series in which we sift through the stacks of half-baked ideas on various funding platforms and hone in on a few that might be worthy of your money — endeavors which we think could make the world a slightly better place, or more importantly, could actually pay out. … Read More
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The Best April Fools’ Jokes From Around the Web
April Fools’ jokes are tricky, and not just because it’s way too easy to forget the date and believe Gmail’s about to turn blue for a few minutes. They’re also hard to get right: they need to be believable, but not too believable; absurd, but not totally out of left field. And most importantly, they need to leave your readers feeling in on the joke, rather than cheated and pissed off. We’ve compiled the highlights (or, depending on your viewpoint, lowlights) of today’s pranks from around the Web. From the email of the future to an Aaron Sorkin-esque HR move at a comics giant, here are the headlines that made us smile, cringe, and sometimes both. … Read More
Helpful (and Hilarious) New York City Etiquette GIFs
Our (and by “our,” we mean the Internet, as a collective) obsession with GIFs serves many purposes: immortalizing catchphrases, making pithy points, creating hilarious juxtapositions, churning out cat superstars. But the GIF can also be an effective educational tool, as evidenced by “NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette,” a wonderful new GIF series by New York-based artist Nathan W. Pyle. “I’ve lived in the city for 4 1/2 years now,” he explains on his blog, “and I’ve decided to start writing down some of the things I’ve learned in my time here.” His notes thus far are both accurate and important — particularly the one about the empty subway cars. (Good heavens. There are certain things you can’t unsee/unsmell.) Check out some of Pyle’s best GIF tips (GIps?) after the jump. … Read More
Brilliant and Bizarre Nail Art Inspired by Internet Memes
Running out of nail art ideas? If so, don’t be a Grumpy Cat — why not Zoidberg? Over the past year, we’ve brought you everything from literature-inspired nail art to artist-inspired nail art to comic-inspired nail art. Now, because we’re in the mood to paint “all the” nails, it’s time to bring you a selection of nail art inspired by your favorite Internet/Reddit sensations. Check ‘em out after the jump, and hit the comments to let us know which Rage Face best suits your thoughts. … Read More
Adventures in Fandom on New .GIF Search Engine Giphy
The idea behind new search engine Giphy is so brilliantly simple we’re shocked no one’s come up with it before (and the site’s creator’s know it, too; the tagline is “This is Giphy. You’re welcome.”) Instead of forcing Tumblr addicts to keep massive animated .GIF folders of all their favorite reaction shots, Giphy designed a clean, efficient search engine for the Internet’s favorite image format. Even in the age of relatively mainstream blogs like What Should We Call Me, though, a glance at Giphy’s front page reveals that the site caters to the kind of dedicated fandoms that popularized the .GIF in the first place. So, in further service to the cult followings that obsess over Sherlock, Honey Boo Boo, Community, and other online favorites, we’ve compiled the best that Giphy has to offer for fans of the Internet’s most hashtagged topics. … Read More
This 'Game of Thrones'-Themed Minecraft World Will Blow Your Mind
Thanks to The Verge, we just came across an incredibly detailed Game of Thrones-themed Minecraft world that is sure to wow the George R. R. Martin fans in our audience. Their impressive rendering of the King’s Landing alone features 3,000 unique buildings with fully-decorated interiors, and apparently took 100 builders a little over four months to complete. The exciting news: The talented team behind “WesterosCraft” plans on turning the entire project into a “giant, open world RPG with quests and NPCs” when they’re finished. In the meantime, click through to explore renderings of just a bit of what they’ve come up with so far! … Read More
In Defense of the Hashtag
For a website that only deals in tiny posts — 140 characters, to be exact — Twitter has managed to step on some pretty big toes: the entire French language, if France’s Academie Francaise is to be believed. In an effort to keep the English-language term from contaminating the mother tongue, the government agency has ruled that French citizens are to be discouraged from using the term and ought to replace it with “mot-diese” (which, as many users have already pointed out, ironically doesn’t work as a hashtag because it contains a punctuation mark). But that’s not the only reason why the hashtag is worth preserving. Read on for an ode to the symbol that revolutionized microblogging and its myriad uses. … Read More
In Case You Missed It: From Famous People's Business Cards to the Next Bechdel
This week on Flavorwire, we were a little more obsessed with famous people than we usually are around these parts, examining everything from their fascinating business cards to their final photographs to the evolution of their private jets. We met the people who hang out at New York’s public libraries and eight worthy successors to Alison Bechdel. We got an interesting look at some lovely burlesque performers both costumed and in the nude. … Read More
In Case You Missed It: From Crazy Domes to Funny Authors
This week at Flavorwire, we looked at some epically bad plans for New York City over the years — and by “epically bad,” we mean putting a two-mile-wide dome up over midtown Manhattan and filling in the Hudson. We revisited some of the scariest scenes in film history, as well as some of the all-time weirdest guest appearances on The Simpsons. … Read More
The Funniest Tweets About Seth MacFarlane at This Morning’s Oscar Nominations
“The last time Austria and Germany co-produced something was Hitler, so this is much better.” Was this morning a preview of what we can expect when Seth MacFarlane hosts the Academy Awards next month? Some of our favorite people on Twitter seem to think so — and they’re not very happy about it. We compiled a few of our favorite tweets after the jump; watch him channel Daniel Day-Lewis in first Oscar promo and weigh in with your own thoughts on MacFarlane’s hosting capabilities in the comments. … Read More
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