Strange.website is a wonderfully weird and poetic internet place. Just go explore it.
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momaspeed.run
Momaspeed.run by Brennan Wojtyła
“When Matt Herzog uploaded his MoMA speedrun on YouTube, completed in just over 20 minutes, Florida-born artist Brennan Wojtyła decided to attempt to traverse the entire museum in an even shorter time.”
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To See What It Feels Like
In 1974, Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question in his essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat?: what does it FEEL like to be another creature? Nagel argued that no amount of objective knowledge could grant access to an animal’s subjective experience. Half a century later, users on TikTok are testing that limit through performance, attempting “To See What It Feels Like” to be monkeys in rainforests, rabbits in cold English winter rain, chipmunks in a storm, polar bears on a glacier, underdeveloped hippos in the water, or lonely raccoons in a trash can.
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Fake courtesy machine
Amedeo Capelli of Stoccafisso Design built an amusing wooden automaton that, when cranked, repeatedly types “I hope this email finds you well“. I love that it sometimes makes typos.
Narrative String Theory
Narrative String Theory is collection all known instances in film & TV of bulletin boards covered with investigatory items, “walls and floors littered with paperwork by obsessives“. By Shawn Gilmore.
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Epstein in VR
Introducing EpsteinVR: A full 3D model of Jeffrey's Upper East Side mansion (and more), generated using Apple's new SHARP Gaussian Splat model.
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— diego (@asciidiego) December 21, 2025
EpsteinVR: A full 3D model of Jeffrey’s Upper East Side mansion (and more), generated using Apple’s new SHARP Gaussian Splat model. Fascinating and disturbing.
Childhood Creativity and Memes
This interesting article by Allegra Rosenberg explains that the viral “67” meme is just the newest expression of a long, lively tradition of children inventing and circulating their own playful lore, just like the rhymes, jokes, and games that folklorists Iona and Peter Opie documented in mid-20th-century Britain.
Open Reel Ensemble
Open Reel Ensemble, a Japanese experimental music group, plays reel-to-reel tape recorders as musical instruments. Spectacular example of artistic technological misuse.
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Slop Evader
Slop Evader, a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, by Tega Brain: “this is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022“.
Ambience Antarctica
Everyone knows that I’m only able to write books with arctic sounds in my headphones. Specifically, these sounds. So, for me, Ambient Antarctica, a website “for people in Antarctica, whether physically or otherwise” is a dream come true. They stream music, images and random trivia.
Working inside Skyrim
Can I work my 9-5 Job from Inside Skyrim, a wonderfully ridiculous experiment by YouTuber habie147.
The original poster
Youtuber Mctoran claimed to have interviewed Black August, the author of the original Backrooms post on 4chan. I don’t know if it’s really him (nobody can prove it), but the interview is incredibly insightful and inspiring. So even if it’s just another piece of lore, it’s worth a listen.
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Syrmor
YouTube creator Syrmor uploads his VRChat encounters with random strangers, who open up about themselves and share intimate details of their lives while hidden behind their avatars. Some of the videos are incredible touching. Unfortunately, the latest upload is from two years ago, I can’t believe I haven’t come across this before.
Mallworld
I just fell into the Mallworld rabbit hole. Apparently thousands of people on Reddit, TikTok and other platforms are sharing their dream experiences and they claim to have visited the same place. Some are event drawing detailed maps of it. This place is Mallword and it is a sort of gigantic liminal space with shops, airports, playgrounds, hotels and other buildings. But the heart of the world is – of course – the oniric version of your typical American mall, where people get lost and disoriented. Mallworld is a sort of narrative container that merges vaporwave, liminal spaces, the backrooms, dreamcore and This Man all together.
“Ever dreamed of this place?”
The 6 Pound Phone Case
A search engine for lore
Infinite Reddit Image Search
Infini.wtf is a visual search engine created by a small team of indie developers. It uses AI to let you explore images, GIFs, and videos from Reddit by what’s in them, not just their titles.
Flusser Experience
Vilém Flusser‘s “Towards a Philosophy of Photography” as performed by Ian James.
Originally produced as a three cassette audiobook edition of unabridged book read by Ian James alongside binaural brainwave patterns, field recordings, product unboxings and other treats.
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Dream Recorder
The Dream Recorder AI is a device designed to transform fragmented dream recollections into replayable visual sequences: “Wake up, say your dream out loud, and watch it come to life as an ultra-low definition dreamscape“.
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Dutch Golden Age Art in Minecraft
Manofdutch uses Minecraft to build landscapes and architecture inspired by Dutch Golden Age paintings. They are absolutely stunning.
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Stage 5 simulacra slop
“Faced with reality’s increasing obsoletion, from generative AI, to reality TV and faux authentic brands, POSTPOSTPOST (aka Al Hassan Elwan) applies Baudrillard’s 4 stages of Simulacra and dares to manifest what lies beyond, when meaning has all but collapsed”.
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Astronaut.io
“Today, you are an Astronaut. You are floating in inner space 100 miles above the surface of Earth. You peer through your window and this is what you see”. You are people watching. These are fleeting moments. These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).”
Visions of Heaven and Hell
“Visions of Heaven and Hell was a three-part documentary broadcast in the UK in 1994, which examined and extrapolated social changes brought about by new technologies, but also touched on wider themes of biotechnology, virtual reality, population density and pandemics.”
Featuring (among others): William Gibson, Stephen Hawking, Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Tilda Swinton, Nick Land.
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Wplace
Wplace (Paint the World) is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments. The Gaza strip is full of hearts.
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Send Me to Heaven
The mobile game Send Me to Heaven (2013) involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. The creator, Petr Svarovsky, said he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.
Total Pixel Space
In his short film Total Pixel Space, filmmaker and musician Jacob Adler employs generative AI to explore the nature of digital images.
Macchine Adulatrici (Sycophantic Machine)
You know that flattering, annoying tone of ChatGPT? Marco Cadioli made a video about it. It’s called “Macchine Adulatrici (Sycophantic Machine)”. The audio is composed of all the phrases the model used to “guide” the author during the creation of the video itself. If you ask me, this is definitely the romantic hit of summer 2025.
