• I’ll Take One Baby Sized Burrito Please

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  • Pleated Jeans Comes Up With Better Names for Groups of Animals

    Doesn’t it seem arbitrary how we name groups of animals? Why is a group of seagulls a flock, but a group of flamingos a…

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  • Daenerys Plays Game of Thrones Theme on Piano

    Love Game of Thrones? Love cosplay? Love piano music? Then it’s a safe bet that you’ll love this video. So safe I’d bet 6…

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  • Only Breakfast You Need: Bacon Coffee

    Just when we thought everything that could be bacon-ed had been bacon-ed, Boca Java gave us Maple Bacon Morning, aka bacon coffee, aka Pour…

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  • Donation Jar Made People Think a Statue Was a Street Performer

    It must suck to pour your heart and soul into designing and sculpting a statue, just to have city dwellers walk by it day…

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  • Animals vs Mirrors Supercut Video

    YouTube user Compilariz has put together this very funny supercut video of animals seeing themselves in the mirror and then FREAKING THE HECK OUT!…

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  • Prancercise: The Best Exercise Evar

    Exercise fads come and go, but Prancercise is forever. What is Prancercise? Only the most the most magical and graceful exercise to ever exist…

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  • 49 Hoaxes People Actually Believed

    You know that old saying, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear?” Today thanks to internet rumors, Photoshop, and…

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  • Drifting Cats

    Normally the only drifting I’m interested in is the kind followed by “off to sleep,” but I’m willing to make an exception just this…

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  • We Didn’t Start The Viral: 8 Years of YouTube Gold

    Remember Badger Badger? How about Numa Numa? If these questions sound like nonsense, clearly you’re not a big YouTube fan. Either that or you’re…

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  • Tan Mom Made The Worst Music Video Ever

    Just when you thought you forgot about Tan Mom once and for all and that you’d never hear about her ever again EVER, she…

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  • Sushi Cats: A Bizarre Photoseries

    Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts brings us this photoseries called Sushi Cats. The set features shots of kitties lying on a bed of rice, wearing some kooky-ass costumes and accessories. Like a lobster. Or knitting needles. What is going on here?! I’ll tell you what: magic. Jk jk, it’s a whole lot of WTFery. Sometimes I get the two confused! Last week I thought I was at a magic show. Turns out I was watching two homeless dudes fight in an alleyway. Boy was I embarrassed! And considerably disappointed because I was expecting to see some cool tricks. But back to the cats. Also known as Neko-Sushi, the Japanese photo series was making the rounds online in 2013, and it’s exactly as ridiculous as it sounds. Picture a fluffy little kitty perched on an oversized mound of sushi rice, sometimes wrapped in seaweed and dressed up with props ranging from seafood to completely random household objects. Congratulations! You’ve discovered the weirdest item on a menu that doesn’t actually exist. Except there’s more to this thing than cats pretending to be dinner. According to the creators’ fictional backstory, Sushi Cats are mysterious creatures from another dimension that have supposedly influenced humans throughout history. There are even imaginary researchers studying their existence, and the cats allegedly slip between worlds through gaps in space. So apparently the magic explanation wasn’t that far off after all. Well, except for the part where they’re cats sitting on rice. The creators took the joke seriously enough to produce a video explaining the bizarre history of these supposedly elusive creatures. Because apparently sticking cats on rice wasn’t confusing enough. They needed an entire supernatural origin story, too. And this wasn’t just some random collection of internet cat pictures. Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts developed a whole little world around Neko-Sushi, complete with a mobile game, postcards, photographic prints, and other merchandise. By May 2013, the project was attracting international attention, proving once again that the internet will enthusiastically embrace just about anything involving cats. Especially cats pretending to be food. Of course, the funniest part is how seriously the creators present the whole thing. The mock mythology treats Neko-Sushi like an undiscovered species instead of a series of surreal cat photographs. It’s part art project, part elaborate joke, and part evidence that someone in Japan understands the internet better than the rest of us. The concept even inspired official character merchandise in Japan. In October 2013, manufacturer Kitan Club released a series of six Neko-Sushi-themed pouches featuring characters from the project. That’s right. The fake mythical creatures got real merchandise. Somewhere, an actual cat is probably wondering why it isn’t collecting royalties. So are Sushi Cats magical creatures from another dimension, or just extremely patient felines surrounded by an impressive amount of absurdity? I’m going with magic. Mainly because accepting that someone actually came up with this idea is somehow even harder to believe.

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