50 Times People Blessed Us With Funny “Brand New Sentences” (New Pics)

So, as mentioned above, Brand New Sentence is an online community that aims to collect and showcase sentences that have never before been written. Ever. In human history. A bit of an exaggeration, mayhaps, but let your perception be the judge of that once you feast your eyes on the submissions found in this listicle. If anything, it will definitely give you some perspective on the things people think about on the regular. And if you’re that skeptically nihilistic, appreciate it for the expository writing.

We once again return to the topic of human creativity with this one. Previously, we took a bit of a different approach—creativity was considered from the perspective of kids in our article on the best parenting tweets of October.

Creativity has many benefits—like, many—it supports mental growth, divergent thinking, development of sensory perception, verbal, coordination and attention skills, emotional intelligence and many other things. Like, many.

So, if we encourage human creativity in kids, they will most certainly develop a skill for it and will take it with them into adulthood. Heck, according to preschool teacher Kristen Varley, BPHE, RECE, adults can apply the same methods of creativity for themselves to learn to be creative. And the beauty of creativity is that it is limitless. As long as particular conditions are met, there is endless potential for creativity to be born. And endless potential for brand new sentences.

The reasoning behind the limitlessness of creativity in humans is the potential for unique perspectives. Unlike artificial intelligence, which is limited by how much it has scraped off the internet, humans have the ability to break free from existing boundaries.

Keeping with the AI topic, lecturers Chloe Preece and Finola Kerrigan co-wrote a scholarly article on artistic brands where they elaborated that AI is consumer-centric and market-driven, whereas humans are self- and product driven.

This contrast explains how AI is not only technically, but also by design, limited in its capabilities. Humans, on the other hand, have goals and desires to drive action and creativity. Where AI only essentially does what it’s supposed to, humans can break free from that. In turn, humans strive for innovation or artistic expression, or just plain old achieving personal goals as it’s rooted in self-expression and self-fulfillment. And when you consider those, the sky’s the limit, as they say.

Creativity is considered a tendency to generate or recognize ideas and possibilities that might just make that one problem solvable. It can also be used for the fun of it.

To be creative means to be able to see things differently, in a new way. It’s like taking two unlikely things and putting them together—but the catch is you need to have experienced these two things in order to merge them. It doesn’t have to be two, it can be more, and it doesn’t have to be tangible either. But the fact is that it’s generating something new based on something else.

Considering all of this, the internet and all of its niche content goodness should not come as a surprise. It’s this sort of mixing and matching that seems to work well on the internet.

Doubt that? Humans for Scale, Tweets of Cats, People Standing—these are just a few of the numerous pages with concepts that equal to put this very regular thing with this very regular thing to create something very unorthodox. This is what the internet thrives on.

And, honestly, the weirder it is, the better. Remember? People have an uncanny tendency to like weird, gross and even scary things. Because evolution.

From an evolutionary standpoint, this attraction to all things macabre, morbid and monstrous feeds our survival instincts—it’s an attention bias towards otherwise averse things that keeps us on our toes and well equipped to face potential threats. By proxy, it also works well to draw your attention, putting you on the train to Scroll Town.

Now, sure, weird and disgusting things abuse our evolutionary traits for views, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. There’s this thing called benign masochism—the tendency to seek out things that one would consider negative because there’s pleasure to be had in constrained risks. You know, riding roller coasters or abusing your body with spicy food.