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WikiHow describes itself as "the world's most popular how-to website" that provides "easy, well-researched, and trustworthy instructions for everything you want."
But as celebrities who are constantly hunted by paparazzi would tell you, popularity comes with a price.
In a humorous twist, the subreddit 'Disney Vacation,' with its 623K members, is dedicated to collecting weird, terrifying, and downright bad illustrations from wikiHow and re-captioning them for each other's entertainment.
We've featured this community a few times already, but in homage to their unwavering efforts, we decided to put together a collection of the best images they have ever produced. Enjoy!
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Analyn Lahr 1 year ago
Isn't that the name of the CPR dummy? Or am I confusing that with something else?
wikiHow was introduced to the internet by Jack Herrick on January 15, 2005. This date was chosen to honor Wikipedia, which was also launched on January 15, only in 2001.
And silly as some of the illustrations might seem, wikiHow founder Jack Herrick says the goal of the platform is to give everyone on the planet a "practical education" – whether it's sexing turkeys, casting a love spell, or wearing fishnets.
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Before Wikihow, Herrick founded eHow, a site with a similar idea but that paid its contributors. However, according to the businessman, this concept wasn't working.
Then, in 2004, he stumbled across Wikipedia. "It was clear it was going to be an amazing resource and become the best site on the internet," Herrick told WIRED. "And I said: 'If this works for an encyclopedia, does it work for a how-to guide?'"
He borrowed the open-source wiki software, and the next year released Wikihow. "Pretty much nothing happened," he recalled. "In those first days, we had almost no users, almost no edits. I think we had 2,000 people visit us that first month."
Herrick, who is still heavily involved in the day-to-day running of Wikihow, wanted to encourage people who did jump in and make edits to stick around. "Anyone who edited the site, I’d send them a personal note. It was that level of detail. I would look over every single change." And it slowly caught on.
Volunteer contributor Eric Wester first visited the site in 2007. "I don't remember the specific article that was featured that first brought me to Wikihow, although I was hooked pretty quickly," he said. Now, Wester does everything from writing articles to checking licensing on uploaded images, moderating pages for deletion, and helping teach new editors. "It's fun to be able to learn more about people's passions and then help point them in the direction of an editing tool that they might really find their niche in," he added.
Initially, the site only had Creative Commons images pulled in from Flickr or Wikimedia, but these were mostly generic and not instructive.
So to improve them, wikiHow hired a photographer, tasking them to illustrate a few articles. It worked, so more photographers were quickly hired. And they still do photography, but as you can see, there are some things you just can't photograph.
wikiHow didn't expect a strong reaction to its illustrations, nor the memes. The funny thing is that Herrick is actually aware of 'Disney Vacation.'
"Whoever is making those memes, super clever – very funny. There's some unbelievable stuff on there. It's comedy gold," he said.
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These illustrations may be part of what has made wikiHow so famous online, but as WIRED's Nicole Kobie points out, what makes the site truly stand out isn't so obvious on its pages.
It's just a nice place to scroll through. Plenty of online communities devolve into cesspits of trolling and abuse, but wikiHow has managed to stay friendly. Let's hope it stays that way, too. Otherwise, where would we get all of these hilarious images?
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Lester the Space Duck 1 year ago
This is an invention that we do NOT need. Just like smell-o-vision. Imagine flipping the channel from a cooking show, to a perfume commercial, to the Nature Channel. 🤢
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ThatOneFish She/Her 1 year ago
At least it's not a Canada Goose (capitalized out of fear induced respect)
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Analyn Lahr 1 year ago
Several neighborhoods in Boston too from what I've learned through looking at real estate websites. Apparently to live comfortably in the Boston area one needs to make over 100,000 dollars a year, or around $60 an hour. Why do I mention this? I just got back from vacation in Boston and I absolutely fell in love with it. But I don't make that kind of bread.
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Lester the Space Duck 1 year ago
I pledge allegiance to the desktop, of the Microsoft Corporation of America. And for the monopoly for which it stands. One Drive. Under Bill Gates. With insanity and frustration for all.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
My great grand father survived pepper spray and mustard gas in the war. He was a seasoned veteran...
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Kael jones 1 year ago
Why did people downvote savahax’s comment…please at least restore balanc
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Floeckchen 1 year ago
Maybe it is me. Maybe I am just not in the right state of mind for this kind of humor right now....
Floeckchen 1 year ago
Maybe it is me. Maybe I am just not in the right state of mind for this kind of humor right now....
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