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Every meme template with the text boxes already in the right places, and no watermark once you find the setting.
- 2 min
Post-apocalyptic comedy RPG with turn-based fights, base building and a tone somewhere between Douglas Adams and a mild fever.
- 1 hr+
Combine two things to make a third, forever, until you have coaxed a language model into inventing something absurd.
One big button, one badum-tss, for punchlines that need help landing in a meeting nobody is enjoying.
- <1 min
- Sound on
The real museum of 25,000 banana-related objects has a website, and it looks exactly as you are already imagining.
- 2 min
Answers the question in one word, correctly, in ninety languages, and has done every single day since 2009.
Answers the question with a single word, and has been right every single time anybody has checked.
A fake enterprise interface that rewards clicking dialogue boxes with more dialogue boxes, by an art-games designer.
- 2 min
- Desktop
The party packs everybody streams: one screen shared with the room, everybody else playing from their own phone browser.
- 10 min
- Sound on
Kaomoji, dongers and text faces sorted by category, with a copy button attached to every single one of them.
- 2 min
The quiz platform from every classroom and every away-day, with a free tier and a room code that anybody can join in seconds.
- 10 min
Thousands of Japanese emoticons sorted by emotion, running from mild confusion all the way to full table flipping.
- 2 min
Stick-figure RPG that has been landing daily jokes since 2003, wrapped around a combat and item system far deeper than the drawings imply.
- 1 hr+
- Desktop
The reference desk of internet culture, with sourced origins and dates for jokes you never knew had a paper trail.
- 1 hr+
Gossip written as media criticism, tracking how celebrity stories get placed and who stands to benefit from the placing.
- 10 min
French satire named by scrambling Le Figaro, and taken seriously by French social media with depressing regularity.
- 10 min
The Lenny face and its several hundred descendants, catalogued and one click away from your clipboard.
- <1 min
Turns a question into a link that mimes typing it into a search box, for colleagues who never quite learn.
- <1 min
Looks like a plain platformer until the floor vanishes, the ceiling drops and the exit walks away. Trolling you is the actual mechanic.
Car leasing sold via the loudest website ever built — animated GIFs, a theme-park aesthetic, and a real business underneath it.
- <1 min
- Desktop
Hundreds of small text translators — pirate, medieval, wingdings, uwu — plus a builder for making your own.
- 10 min
Wikipedia's index of its own indexes, which is either a long-running joke or the purest expression of the site.
- <1 min
A fake executive dashboard of charts and metrics that keeps updating itself while you stare thoughtfully past it.
- 2 min
- Desktop
The same ramp-covered playground with strangers in it, all attempting the same enormous jump and all missing it.
- 10 min
- Desktop
An empty city full of ramps and supercars with no objectives at all, which turns out to be the entire objective.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Deliberately tiny paint tool inside a fake old window, with fat pixels and a palette that makes clumsy art look intentional.
One button, one progress bar, and the firm assurance that everything is now OK, which beats the alternative.
- <1 min
Everyone captions the same image, then votes on the best one. Rounds are short and a group works out its own humour quickly.
- 10 min
Maker Studio
AltFGenerate a fake newspaper clipping, a talking animation or a ransom note. The 2005 internet, rebuilt so it still works.
Live map of which McDonald's ice cream machines are broken, built by repeatedly adding a sundae to a cart. Petty, rigorous, brilliant.
- <1 min
Runs an image through the exact stack of saturation, JPEG damage and stray emoji that makes a meme look reposted eight times.
- <1 min
Trivia and origin stories written for the sort of person who reads the plaque next to the exhibit.
- 10 min
Mockly
AltFBuild a convincing fake post, chat or notification for a joke or a mockup. Watermarked so nobody mistakes it for the real thing.
- 10 min
The bike stunt series relocated to a water park, where the traps are inflatable and no less lethal for it.
- 10 min
One piano keyboard shared by everybody currently online, producing either a Chopin nocturne or an immediate car crash.
- <1 min
- Sound on
- Desktop
Art too bad to be ignored, collected since 1993 and catalogued with entirely straight-faced curatorial commentary.
- 10 min
The largest soundboard on the web with a search box, which makes it either a toy or a workplace hazard.
- <1 min
- Sound on
Run a country by answering one absurd policy dilemma a day, then watch your statistics drift somewhere you did not intend.
- 10 min
Neal Agarwal's collection of one-idea interactive toys, from spending Bill Gates' money to scrolling the whole ocean floor.
A blog of neat things — odd history, strange products, good comics — running since 2005 with no algorithm involved.
- 10 min
The link at the end of every bait-and-switch since 2007, and the reason nobody fully trusts a shortened URL.
- <1 min
- Sound on
UK spoof news updated several times a day, best read as running commentary on whatever is currently going wrong.
A ninja, flexing, to a backing track, at a frame rate suggesting nobody involved was trying especially hard.
- <1 min
- Sound on
Retail and service workers' stories about customers, filed daily, and a bottomless argument for tipping generously.
- 1 hr+
The pop-tart cat, the rainbow and the song, with a counter for how many seconds of your life you have handed over.
- <1 min
- Sound on
Feed of products that should not exist, from bacon-scented soap to a hammock designed to hang under your desk.
- 10 min
The LiveJournal community that outlived LiveJournal, still posting celebrity news with the comment threads doing the work.
A million checkboxes shared by everyone at once. Ticking them was pointless right up until people started writing messages in binary.
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Funny websites: questions
How many sites are in funny websites?
249 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off. 7 of them are AltF originals that run right here.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
240 of the 249 are free and need no account. 1 is paid or freemium, and the card says so.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
197 of 249 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 244 are safe for work and 219 work with the sound off.