This is so true. I've spent the last 15 years collecting pictures like these and ai has made every one of them obsolete.
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You just reminded me of "Internet K-Hole" that was a great blog... I don't know if it still exists or not
Edit: It exists: https://internetkhole.com/ (NSFW at times)
Edit2: Just scrolled past this one LOL:
Edit3: Might be the same content, but this is the original blog as I remember it: https://internetkholeblog.tumblr.com/
Nevermind, looks like it links to the same content. Id hoped there'd be more :(
Amazing website, thank you for sharing. My favorite one:
No problem, I'm just disappointed it hasn't been added to in the last x years since I've been there.
(NSFW at times)
I don't know what I expected, but it certainly wasn't that many people with their bare ass cheeks out.
Don't get me wrong, it's not gratuitous, but enough to feel like some kind of pattern. Just people with their butts hanging out.
Anyways, this little story was my favourite:
This was actually standard. Dominoes used to pre fold all the boxes for the night.
there is more than one photo
I meant to imply this using the word "story". I'm shit at communication, sorry :(
This is part of what I specifically found amusing:
spoiler
I wasn't even thinking about the pre-folding aspect. I like logistics stuff, so that's cool to learn. Thanks!
Yeah that was great... I guess fucking around at work is literally timeless lol
This is so far ahead of what AI can do there is still value there. Also even real images whose story got lost lose value.
AI makes a picture of something that just completely never happened, so the viewer's imagination doesn't even bother filling in a story. I think your collection is a thousand times better.
Shit. Hadn't considered this
We live, we love, we lie
That was 2 years ago and it felt like yesterday
I like to gaslight myself into thinking that all the absurd AI content I see online are just weird photoshop images in disguise
Now I can't even tell what is real anymore.
Me neither. I kid, but I genuinely have trouble telling the difference between AI and heavily edited images. Someone on Reddit posted a video of a model on Insta who I assumed was heavily filters and everyone caught on that's it AI but it took me reading the comments and constantly rewatching to see it.
We are so fucked
eh, same thing happened when photoshop came around.
Fair. But the fact that there was little human involvement in the process is what makes it daunting imo.
I thought the one on the right was AI since it "went viral" recently. But maybe it's older than I thought.
I had it as a wallpaper 10+ years ago.
What does the text on that beautiful Strawberry Elephant creature say? Looks like it's in Farsi
It's Arabic. The pic is a pun on "Good morning" which is written sabah el-fol. The picture says sabah el-farawla which roughly translates to "Good Strawberring".
Wouldn’t even call it a pun, as someone pointed out already. I’m going to sacrifice the joke in the name of explaining it.
brief Arabic cultural lesson for those who care
You have your Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace, صباح الخير) in English. In Arabic we have more variations. The standard reply to this first one is Morning of Light (صباح النور). Basically wishing each other a good day by describing what makes it good. There’s a couple but these first two in this order is the standard (and secular *) greeting.
* you’ll see why that is even worth pointing out in a second
Then you have more abstract ones that imply a good day by referring to something (commonly a pleasant smelling flower), like Morning of Roses (صباح الورد) or Morning of (a specific type of) Jasmine (صباح الفل). All of these have a musical quality to them in a way I can’t write out.
You’ll get older relatives sending you standardized photos with these greetings in groups or just to text you to invite you for lunch (or to fix their phone). Here’s the google images result for Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace):
I’ve highlighted the religious stuff in red and the roses with blue, to see how common they are. The religious stuff is mostly variations with Islamic Duas (prayers asking for something - in the case of all of these it’s basically “asking” God to give the recipient good health / a good day / a pleasant path in life - it’s really just a “good luck” phrased in the only way a religious society can express it.
FWIW I’m (mostly) not from a Muslim family so I get secular or Christian versions of these. Often the photos I get are flowers, traditional breakfast food, coffee, a nice breakfast table set in a shaded garden. And often there’s very few pixels. Sometimes an aunt will just take a photo of her coffee and that’s basically a greeting. But it’s usually garbled old jpegs from 2007.
Critical subtext: these are literally forwards from grandma. Well-meaning, but eventually obnoxious, especially back when phones had 8GB of storage.
This meme says Morning of Strawberries (صباح الفراولة) which is both clunky (Arabic’s got a poetic quality and these two words put together just intuitively do not work that way. It has the meter of a punchline if that makes sense) and silly, but with the textured elephant and the 13x12 resolution as you can probably guess it’s just a surreal meme.
But now you know why it’s a surreal meme.
~~Come back next week for the much less wholesome next episode of Arabic forwards from Arabic grandma: videos alleging the Jews invented homosexuality, cancer, and sex~~
Great write up! Thnx
This is PRECISELY why I'm a big fan of explaining jokes. Most of us wouldn't have understood any of this context.
not with THAT attitude you aren't