Unlike most clickbait-y websites like Buzzfeed or Upworthy, the article links on Huffington Post are special.
They’re arranged in a vertical format: a headline, followed by a photo, followed by a headline, followed by a photo.
This means it’s really easy to pair the photo with the wrong headline.
I’ve started to read the whole website that way, now.
It’s a vast improvement.
I’ve been doing it a lot. I sort of can’t stop myself.
Unpredictable juxtapositions are funny. It’s the notion behind Cards Against Humanity or the Garfield Randomizer. (Or the Cyanide and Happiness Random Comic Generator, which is the Venn diagram intersection of those two things.)
Today, I started a new Twitter account to collect, display, and preserve in amber the best of these incorrect matchups.
— Wrong Captions (@WrongCaptions) May 12, 2016
It’s extraordinarily stupid. You can follow at @WrongCaptions.
— Wrong Captions (@WrongCaptions) May 12, 2016