Although colour constancy is certainly involved, there is still no theory available to explain the dichotomous character of this optical illusion. Assumptions about the illumination of the dress—i.e. whether the stimulus was illuminated by natural or artificial light or whether it was in a shadow...
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Pepe the Frog is a fictional character that first appeared in a 2005 comic and has gone through multiple transformations since then. Starting out as a positive meme known as "feels good man" in 2008, Pepe was edited into a more sad or angry meme a few years later. By 2015, what was ...
had to come up with a character. We had to decide the age, sex, career, mannerisms, etc. of this persona that we were going to portray. When the teachers (who were probably in their early 20s) came around and asked me about my character, I told them, “I’m a middle-aged woman...
On the other hand, old school pop culture references are effective for creating strong feelings of nostalgia (think: everything in BuzzFeed’s ’90s category). If your audience falls within a certain age bracket, consider what would be nostalgic to them. What did they grow up with, and how...
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Also known as “evil Patrick” or “savage Patrick,” this meme takes a still of the character Patrick from “Spongebob Squarepants” with a menacing look in his eyes from a 1999 episode. Twitter got a hold of it around February 2018 and started using the image along with an explanation ...
I’m inclined to agree with Landry — I’ll admit that, post-Ken, I’m just as apt to discount someone for their Myers-Briggs score as I am for their results on a “What Kind of Condiment Are You?” quiz on BuzzFeed. (I’m a garlic aioli, looking for a BBQ sauce, if that me...
The following celebrities looked a whole lot different after a makeover. Whether you consider the new look subjectively worse or superficially better, one thing is clear: These stars lost some of the character that made them unique, thereby affecting the perception of audiences and agents alike. ...
I don’t expect anyone can seriously argue that these hypothetical tweets just happened to pop up immediately after Oppenheimer’s article on BuzzFeed, and while I am not generally in a position to agree with Stephanie Zvan on any particular issue in the ongoing atheist gender wars, I am jus...