AI videos have anomalies like people walking backwards, strange physics and nightmare fuel, because they are not quite able to process the real world.

We don’t inherently distrust them because they’re not real enough, but because they are too close to why we dream.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 2 days ago

I felt extremely flattered when my partner said I was "pretty smart and talented".

I waited for the third positive thing, since that was the assignment, when I realized they did list three.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 7 days ago

I have always wanted to start a trend where people would put quotation marks around the word "president" when referring to the current Commander-in-Chief because, let's face it, his actions have proven that he is anything but one.

And if anybody calls you out on it, act as though you have no idea what they're talking about.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 10 days ago

It's not everyday you see an Elvis-impersonating gorilla singing showtunes in the middle of the road.

And the uneventful commute has proven that today is no exception.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 10 days ago

I decided to try out the thing I saw on the internet where I would wear a slightly different shade of shirt every day at work, eventually covering the entire spectrum, to see if anyone could tell.

Not only did nobody notice, even fewer people cared.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 10 days ago

"I promise I'll be good, so please don't send me away," I begged my parents before they shipped me off to boarding school.

I never thought those words would be echoed by my father before I sent him to an assisted living facility.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 14 days ago

My dad explained how it was mice that smashed my piggy bank and ran off with my money.

I'd have been more inclined to believe him if I didn't smell the alcohol on his breath.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 21 days ago

Near the watermelon farms by the bay lies my childhood home — a place I dare not go back to.

I don't think I could handle another one of my mother's nonsensical, animal-related questions.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 24 days ago

My father never told me if he found anything after he searched my closet for the monster I swore I saw in there.

All I know is, the very next day, he installed locks on all of our closet doors.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 24 days ago

My uncle always told me, "Women like to play hard to get, so never take 'no' for an answer."

Unsurprisingly, he's still single, but he has acquired quite the collection of restraining orders.

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 28 days ago

"What's a common, everyday thing where we see it as a solid, a liquid and a gas?"

"OK, while 'poop' is technically correct, the answer I was looking for was 'water'."

reddit.com
u/Outside_Normal — 1 month ago