Parody religion with its own prophet, apocalypse date and merchandise, committed to the bit long enough that you stop being sure.
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Church of the SubGenius sits in Unexplainable under Weird, filed as coffee break.
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Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
One button that adds unicorns and rainbows to any web page, solving a problem that has never once been reported.
Alarming research site about a chemical found in tumours, acid rain and every reservoir on earth. The chemical is water.
Writing community from 1999 where each subject gets personal essays instead of an encyclopaedia entry, and the tone never settles.
The cult's own website, left exactly as it was in 1997 and still quietly maintained. A sobering artefact rather than a joke.
Viral-content parody taken well past the point of sense, including quizzes that insult you for finishing them.
Curated stumble button that sends you somewhere good rather than somewhere random, with categories if you are feeling fussy.
NASA ephemeris data, brutal one-line notifications and a design language everyone copied. Astrology delivered entirely deadpan.
Upload any file and receive a genuinely corrupted version back. Built for missing deadlines, used mostly for art.
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