this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
22 points (78.9% liked)

Creepy Wikipedia

3946 readers
52 users here now

A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust

image

Guidelines:
  1. Follow the Code of Conduct

  2. Do NOT report posts YOU don't consider creepy

  3. Strictly Wikipedia submissions only

  4. Please follow the post naming convention: Wikipedia Article Title - Short Synopsis

  5. Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails.

  6. Please refrain from any offensive language/profanities in the posts titles, unless necessary (e.g. it's in the original article's title).

Mandatory:

If you didn't find an article "creepy," you must announce it in the thread so everyone will know that you didn't find it creepy

image

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 13 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

The only danger here is the danger of crawling so far up your own asshole that you just pop entirely out of existence.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Meh. This whole thing is just one assumption after the other, like variable after variable have to line up for this. More silly than anything.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Requisite Thought Slime video about why you shouldn't worry about this: https://youtu.be/wUkHSPdudn4

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ouch They really ripped the guy a new one. Good watch though. Thanks for linking.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Shhh! We don't talk about the basilisk. Also, you have just lost the game.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I swear I went years without losing the game but this year it's been like once a month.

[–] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

Im taking everyone down with me

[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A weird little thing, I like to sleep pondering mild existential concepts like these. Between this and reading BLIT and its sequels for the first time, basilisks (which I’d actually not heard of before) have given me much to think on tonight

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A short story about basilisks, here’s the first. Intriguing concept

[–] trucy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just the techbro's version of the Pascal wager

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This is a perfect summary because they both seem to prove a really interesting point as long as you assume there's no downside to dedicating your entire life to something only to find out that thing never existed.

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This thing feel like a SCP article