Guy Makes Honest And Funny Charts That Sum Up Our Lives And Here Are 30 Of The Best (New Pics)
An insane amount of information bombards us every day. We've gotten kinda used to it, but our attention spans have suffered. The coronavirus has surely escalated it all, and we’re now blindly navigating the labyrinth of facts and fiction. Do we really need to know, like, every-thing?
This guy named Matt Shirley has a playful solution. Every day, he shares a snack-sized bite of infographics that perfectly summarizes the current situation. No matter the quarantine activity—binge-watching "Tiger King" or working from home, the graphs have it all summed up. It may feel a tiny bit too relatable, but in the end, we’re all just a part of Matt’s hilarious statistics.
After you’re done with this article, take a look at Bored Panda’s previous posts featuring Shirley’s charts from the times it was all a little less hectic. Here is part 1 and here waits part 2.
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Bored Panda contacted Matt Shirley and asked the pro graph designer how the coronavirus has affected his chart art.
Matt told us that the current crisis has definitely altered his daily routine. “I was a freelancer and worked from home before crisis, but very little of my work was done at home and mostly in coffee shops around town.” Now that these have been shut down, Matt had to transition to not leaving his house. “It has put a damper on my social skills for sure. Plus, I miss getting coffee and having a place for work that’s not home.”
Matt’s graph art is what has earned him a solid fan base of 357K Instagram followers. The fact that people can instantly relate to Matt's charts is what has made them so popular on the internet. He believes that his ability to make things relatable goes back to childhood. “I had an intense desire to make people like me. So I really thought about what I did from other people's perspectives.” It might be “not a great thing for my mental health,” explained Matt, “but handy when you’re trying to come up with topics that people find interesting.”
Since coronavirus is pretty much the only thing people talk and think about, the topics of the jokes have to reflect that. “I've definitely tried to make jokes on other topics but people aren't in that headspace right now, which I understand completely,” said Matt.
The process of drawing a graph looks simple. Matt goes through iterations of what he thinks is funny and starts from there. Even if what people find funny is pretty subjective, the graph designer is sure that if it “makes me laugh, I like to think that others will laugh too.” And yes, he is still always trying to make a graph per day!
I bought a ukulele a few weeks before COVID-19 was detected. So... I guess... check? :D
Day 8 happened in Germany last Sunday. A lot of people I work with (remotely) swore in unison that they all could handle the pandemic and were doing ok, but the summer time switch was just too much.
This is very clever, especially if you take the time to follow each line (which I didn't do the first time I saw it).
They only just close d the beaches a week ago and people are still going.
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This map is inaccurate, as I have committed enough fap to single-handedly put Florida on the map.
Australia = a swirl of dark pink, light pink, red, yellow, blue, dark blue. Or something like that
i woulda thought they would all be hot pink, and New Hampshire would be still realizing that there is a Pandemic
Need to update the Marijuana states, now that CA and WA have made it legal too.
I would think the Texas activity would be 'go out and target practice with all your weapons, then go hunting innocent animals with all your weapons, and don't forget to haul all your ATVs and dirt bikes with you, as well as some type of sledge or wagon in which to haul the wildlife you murdered home'.But Netflix? I don't see it.
Let me explain for non-natives who don't understand the difference between nice and attractive. When someone is nice it doesn't matter how he looks, he's behaving nicely.
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