We all hate them. Please help.

Well that’s much better

I did some googling and found this. Not sure if it’s the most common name for it or not, because I’ve never heard it:

Please add NSFW tag

He’s famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).

People give him challenges all the time, and it’s really impressive.

Here he is finding someone’s location based on a picture taken from a plane.

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

It looks real, and the follow-up gets weirder.

A quick search found the following panels here, if anyone is interested:

Go for it! I stole this anyway.

Gotcha, sorry. I’ll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.

RIP to a legend

Just did some digging, and it’s legit and from a 1994 book called “The Internet Guide for New Users” by Daniel P. Dern.

Mildly interesting side-note, I found someone’s blog about posting this image and book to a (now non-existent) fediverse server. https://doughnut.neocities.org/blag/15

It’s so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it’s flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos…

Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I’ve been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven’t added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.

Ok, I’ll put Akira on my list…

For sure. I bet there’s a substantial number of people who only know of it from the references and haven’t seen the show.

Oh!

Could it mean “this changes everything!”?

As in, a fancy way of saying we’ve truly entered a new age? I’m trying to think of a modern equivalent but am drawing a blank.

Oh.

I honestly have no idea where this originated, but it looks like it’s been everywhere, has t-shirts and posters, etc.

Including arguably the most famous episode!