I’ve been thinking about this way too much. See, if I were to pick the funniest things on the internet to show to somebody who had never seen a funny thing on the internet, I’d probably have gone for a lot of the hits of 2010 (QVC mishaps, nerds falling over) – stuff that the readers of this column will know backwards.
So I’ve picked things that I go back to. Things that – not to sound like an awful person – connect on a level beyond a man accidentally stabbing himself with a ceremonial sword live on a shopping channel. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Enjoy!
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7. Nina Katchadourian’s lavatory self-portraits in the Flemish style
Before edgelords and people farting on cakes, this is what the internet was about – a woman recreating Dutch paintings in aircraft bathrooms. OK fine, there was never a time before those things, but I still wish there was more of this.
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