FunnySuccess Kid: The Fist-Clenching Baby Who Paid for a Kidney
A photograph of a determined eleven-month-old on a beach became the internet's symbol of small victories, and then did something that mattered.
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FunnyAll Your Base Are Belong To Us: A Translation Error With Its Own Anniversary
Nine words of broken English from the opening of a forgotten shoot-em-up, and the first internet joke that arrived with its own soundtrack.
Art & CultureThe Dancing Baby: The First One, and It Came Free With the Software
Before broadband, before YouTube, a rendered infant cha-cha'd through the world's email inboxes as a sample file nobody was meant to see.
Art & CultureDistracted Boyfriend: The Stock Photo That Explained Everything
Three models, one Spanish photographer, and a picture so structurally perfect that it became a diagram for every choice anybody has ever made.
Art & CultureGrumpy Cat: The Face That Launched a Legal Department
Her real name was Tardar Sauce, her expression was a genetic quirk, and she won a $710,000 lawsuit over an iced coffee.
Art & CultureNyan Cat: Eight Bits of Cat, One Pop-Tart, Infinite Rainbow
A pixel cat with a toaster pastry for a body, welded to a Japanese vocal loop by a stranger, and later sold for the price of a house.
Art & CultureDoge: The Rescue Dog Who Ended Up on the Money
One blog photograph of a Japanese rescue dog produced a global joke, a currency, a four million dollar sale and a genuine mourning period.
Art & CultureThe Rickroll: How a 1987 Pop Single Became the Internet's Practical Joke
A bait-and-switch link, a song nobody had thought about in twenty years, and a singer who watched it happen from the sidelines.
Art & CultureWorst Sign Fails: Typos Carved in Stone
A typo on a website lives for as long as it takes to fix it. A typo in granite lives for as long as the granite.
Then & Now
We reviewed the weird internet in 2015. It got weirder. We kept notes.
2015The weird and wonderful world of Google’s Deep Dream2026The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Slop
20155 Reasons Why the Apple Watch Will Make You Uncool20265 Reasons Why Smart Glasses Will Make You Uncool
Geek ToysThe Yodelling Pickle Says What We're All Thinking
A battery-powered pickle that yodels. Archie McPhee has a lot to answer for.
Geek ToysHanderpants: The Underpants Your Hands Have Been Waiting For
Tiny tighty-whities for your hands. Fingerless. Elastic waistband. We have so many questions and zero regrets.
Geek ToysFinger Hands: Tiny Hands for Your Fingers, and Then It Gets Weird
Little rubber hands that fit on your fingertips. Wave with ten tiny hands. Ascend.
Geek ToysThe Screaming Goat Figurine Is a Desk Companion for Our Times
A tiny goat on a tiny log. Press it and it screams. That's the product. That's the review.
Geek ToysThe Wenger 16999: A Swiss Army Knife With 87 Tools and No Survivors
87 implements. 141 functions. Over two pounds. The Swiss finally went too far, and it's magnificent.
Geek ToysThe Inflatable Unicorn Horn for Cats, Reviewed by a Survivor
An inflatable horn that turns your cat into a unicorn for up to four seconds. Archie McPhee strikes again.
WTFThe Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer: A Landmark of Human Achievement
One piece of plastic. One fruit. One of the greatest review sections ever written.
WTFThe Nicolas Cage Reversible Sequin Pillow Watches You Sleep
Swipe the sequins one way: Nicolas Cage. Swipe them the other way: also Nicolas Cage.
WTFThe Nose Shower Gel Dispenser Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
A giant plastic nose for your shower wall. It dispenses gel. From the nostril. You knew that already.
WTFEmergency Underpants in a Can, for the Day You Hope Never Comes
A sardine-style tin containing one pair of unisex underpants. For emergencies. Define emergency yourself.
WTFCanned Fresh Mountain Air: Finally, Nothing in a Tin
A can of air from a mountain, sold to people at sea level. The invisible hand has outdone itself.
WTFPotty Putter: Golf for the Room Where Nobody Should Golf
A putting green for around your toilet, complete with mini putter and a Do Not Disturb sign. Fore.
Fashion, tech, travel, and the occasionally useful. Filed under: the rest.
FashionThe Iceman Mullet Hat Has Twelve Inches of Hair and One Magnificent Typo
A stars-and-stripes ski hat with a wig attached, sold using a slogan nobody proofread. We would not change a letter.
FashionHairy Leg Tights Are Filed Under Exotic Hosiery, Which Raises Several Points
Opaque polyester printed with convincing leg hair, categorised by Amazon somewhere nobody expected.
FashionThe Selk’bag Is a Sleeping Bag With Legs, and We Reviewed One in 2015
Made from 230 recycled bottles, rated to 35 degrees, and shaped exactly like a person. Eleven years later it is still going.
FashionThe SEASUM Leggings Went Viral for Doing One Thing to One Part of You
TikTok made them famous, Lizzo reviewed them in four words, and the failure mode is exactly where you would fear.
FashionThe Snuggie Sold 35 Million Units By Being a Bathrobe Facing the Wrong Way
The founding text of wearable blankets, still selling, still fundamentally a dressing gown put on backwards.
FashionThe Beard Head Viking Pillager Is a Hat With a Detachable Beard, and It Is Serious
Knitted horns, a button-on braided beard, and 574 ratings averaging 4.7. Somebody out there is genuinely committed.