The Pudding explains ideas debated in culture, visually (e.g., hip hop vocabulary, pocket sizes, comedy structure, and job automation).
Let’s talk about the emotional range of celebs in GIFs.
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There’s a clarity to small, oddly specific project names like “wattpad2anyconverter115beta”: they signal both ambition and incompletion. At once, the name promises utility — conversion, bridging formats — and exposes its own provisional nature with “115beta.” That tension between usefulness and unfinishedness is the core story here.
Charlie Smart contributed to data analysis and development of this project.