I’ve said it before, never underestimate the creativity of Reddit. I was lurking around Photoshop battles yesterday when a strange looking picture of a hairless guinea pig showed up. Here’s the photo in question: Reddit user: i_love_applebees I didn’t think much of it, other than that it was pretty creepy looking. I assumed people wouldn’t …
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The selling point of Australian startup Padlokt is live, two-way conversation. It’s about “bringing fans closer to their idols than ever before,” says Trent Sydney, Padlokt managing director and co-founder. “It’s the little personal moments. Things that don’t come across in a tweet or on Facebook,” says Adam Hollioake, ex-cricketer, MMA fighter and now serving as Padlokt’s director of global …
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Once again, a Donald Trump cabinet pick has many Twitter users scratching their heads. This time, what’s got them perplexed is Ben Carson, a Trump rival during the Republican primary who is now an ally and possibly the next Housing and Urban Development secretary. On Facebook, meanwhile, people are chatting about a shooting tied to the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory. Social …
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Photoshop battles on Reddit never get old. I found one battle today that’s so good I had to share. The subject: A giant robot-panda statue, created by artist Bi Heng and living in Shenyang, China. The stated purpose of the project was to remind people that we mustn’t sacrifice nature for the sake of technical progress. The Yin-Yang symbol on …
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Social Studies looks at what’s trending on social media throughout the day so you don’t have to. As you probably know, Reddit has subreddits for news, gaming, pics, jokes, movies and other ordinary topics, but sometimes the most interesting are the ones made by the community. They give the people of Reddit the ability to laugh at themselves and also …
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One of the more popular subreddits at Reddit.com is PhotoshopBattles; a place where someone will submit a photo and users then manipulate the image to tell a different story. It’s one of my favorites. Browsing through the Photoshop battles on Reddit this weekend, I came across one that was equal parts cute and sci-fi/geek culture. Someone submitted a picture of …
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Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, today admitted to editing several comments that criticised him on the site. He made the admission on Reddit, where he posts under the username Spez. Huffman got a lot of flak from members of the The_Donald, a subreddit for supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, after Reddit banned the Pizzagate subreddit. Pizzagate was dedicated to a …
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Social Studies looks at what’s trending on social media throughout the day so you don’t have to. I’ve talked here before about subreddits, which are basically topics on Reddit where you can find stuff you’re interested in. The default subreddits are what you see across the top of Reddit.com when you go to the site and offer a pretty good …
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Reddit’s Photoshop battles forums can be amazing, turning one photo into several different things. Reddit user -WhistleWhileYouLurk recently posted a long-exposure photo of the Soyuz rocket launch, which is headed for the International Space Station. Redditors pounced on it immediately with a ton of cool looking tweaked images. One even created a GIF to show how he/she created a movie …
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One of the more popular subreddits at Reddit.com is PhotoshopBattles; a place where someone will submit a photo and users then manipulate the image to tell a different story. There are tons of new battles everyday, but rather than it being a serious competition, Reddit users compliment people’s work and try to come up with new ways to use the …
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