neil degrasse tyson listening to walking on sunshine: haha this song is great, but unfortunately you can’t walk on sunshine. its too hot!!
actually the reason you couldn’t walk on the sun’s surface is because it’s not dense enough. the surface is actually only about 7000 degrees - hot enough to burn you up very quickly, but in a heat-resistant suit you could last for a little while, long enough to take a few steps at least
but unfortunately you would fall right through the surface and quickly fall towards the center
Banksy created an edgy parody theme park called “Dismaland” but to everyone else, it seemed more like a parody of itself
Berenstein/stain bears got people contemplating the existence of parallel universes
Sam Pepper kidnapped a man and acted out a fake execution of his best friend in front of him for a youtube “prank”
Donald Trump suggested fascist plans of documenting and banning all muslims in the United States, gained support for it
Tumblr user foreverhonest made a post seriously trying to convince people that there’s a bus full of people who wear “Down With Cis” shirts who just go around and beat random people up
“What if there was a white kid who had an illness and their one wish was to say the N word, would it be okay to say it then?”
Arcane Kids released a game called “Sonic Dreams Collection” where you make sonic fetish films straight outta deviantart, stare into the void that is sonic’s eyes, and feed worms to eggman like a bird to make him big and strong
A TERF told a story of how she “clocked” a trans women for complimenting her on a quesadilla
Minions
The internet got into wild debates over the color of a dress with completely contradictory perceptions of blue/black vs white/gold
People filmed themselves trying to summon a demon with pencils
A story popped up that accused Prime Minister David Cameron of fucking a dead pig and everyone just kinda believed it.
So overall cool year, aside from the fact that it was basically a year-long onion article come to life.
When it comes to stories, I am a sadomasochist. By that, I mean that I enjoy both reading stories that make me hurt in the feelings as well as making headcanons and make other people suffer
