Weird world

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1. During World War 2, the British maintained an entirely fictional army, the “4th Army” that they successfully used to draw German forces away from invasion targets on multiple occasions, including the Normandy landings.

Weirdcore is a surrealist aesthetic centered on amateur or low-quality photography and visual images. These images are constructed or edited to evoke feelings of confusion, disorientation, dread, alienation, and nostalgia or anemoia. Visually, Weirdcore is influenced by the general look of images shared on the internet from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. Common visual elements include amateur editing, primitive digital graphics, low-fidelity photography, and image compression. While the…

If you’ve visited a mostly empty mall close to closing time or a hotel that is almost completely vacant, you no doubt have been struck with a feeling of creeping unease, possibly mixed with some deja vu. You would not be alone in this feeling, and the ubiquity of smartphones these days means that internet users are documenting all the places that unsettle them.