We’ve all been there - one click leads to another, and suddenly it’s 3 a.m. What Internet rabbit hole kept you scrolling the longest?
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anything related to archaeology and anthropology. There is so much information on these topics. who went where out of Africa, who they met and mated with, 1st blue eyed person, how native americans came from ancient Eurasians, that came from a Neanderthal, Denisovan, and Homo Sapien mix. Archaeology - you can't put a shovel in the ground without hitting bones these days but I love when they find roman mosaic floors.
After a recent conference call addressing the sudden departure of an executive vice-president I started searching information on my company. Every click brought me deeper into how messed up my company actually is despite management claiming everything is fine. I immediately updated my resume.
Once you get going on TV Tropes it's very difficult to get out again.
I explored the depths of bored panda...
WIkipedia has lists of "People who disappeared mysteriously". Pre-1910, 1910 - 1990, and 1990-present. A few years ago, I read every article linked on those lists. Had to take a break at some point because it made me feel depressed, but went back a few months later and finished reading.
So many missing people. So many families that never got answers. So many cases in which circumstances point to a certain person being responsible, but there is no proof.
Do not recommend.
12th century letters and journals written by Catholic monks in Iberia. My particular interest was anything related to dealings with the Almohad region. But really anything was a fascinating read. Even the stuff that was just one monk complaining about the food being made by the new cook. But I've always been fascinated by Muslim Spain, but my Arabic is not good enough to read a letter (I can recognize like 5 words). But I do speak Portuguese natively, and Spanish fluently. So I was able to slog through 12th century Vulgar Latin. I did have to keep a latin dictionary with me, but even that wasn't great because most of those are 1st century Latin, and the language changed A LOT in 11 hundred years. I had to infer a lot through context.
Vtubing and the whole industry behind it.
A Vtuber is a streamer that uses motion capturing to animate a 2D or 3D model often inspired by anime characters. There is alot of content variety like reaction videos, gaming streams, karaoke and even original songs.
When it comes to how big the whole thing gets it varies from whole corporations focused on talent managment (Hololive) over talent agencies (Echo Pulse; Glitch Stars) to independent streamers with different community sizes. Aside from that there are also managers, artists and a few other jobs involved behind the scenes.
A research project on the deaths of famous people ended up with a book about dang near every way recorded that someone has died-with stories-, and a unhinged deep dive into t*****e methods throughout history. It culminated into a dive into the lives and stories of Catholic Saints
Jewish history and customs. I have no idea why I even fell into the rabbit hole as there were never many Jews to begin with in my country but it was pretty interesting nevertheless
A research project on the deaths of famous people ended up with a book about dang near every way recorded that someone has died-with stories-, and a unhinged deep dive into t*****e methods throughout history. It culminated into a dive into the lives and stories of Catholic Saints
Jewish history and customs. I have no idea why I even fell into the rabbit hole as there were never many Jews to begin with in my country but it was pretty interesting nevertheless
