Social media was designed to help us network with colleagues and stay in touch with our friends and relatives, but these days there's more snooping going on than staying in touch.

Former lovers, friends of friends, long lost relatives, potential employers and the people we meet while we're out and about are all potential snoopers, and they make us want to polish up every photo we post.

Which is where Photoshop masters like Chinese digital artist Kanahoooo, dubbed "Photoshop Holy", come in- they make people look pretty by request, transforming them into an ideal version suitable for exposure to the masses.

Kanahoooo knows a thing or two about digital deception, and she warns against believing every profile pic you see online-

"Don't believe the perfect thing you see online!" she says. "If you want to find out about somebody, then see them in real life."

See Photoshop Master Reveals Why You Should Never Trust Photos You See On Social Media here

Don't you hate it when you get a new pair of jeans and they make a swish, crinkle or clicking sound that never seems to go away?

Denim is the only apparel fabric that can make a strange clicking sound even after it has been majorly softened up by the wash, so maybe it's trying to tell us something about the wearer?

That's what Jake Likes Onions thinks anyway...hope my jeans aren't commenting on my personal hygiene...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

Records stores are one of those places where the "hep cats" and "cool kids" shop and therefore they look daunting to people who don't think they're cool enough to be around that crowd.

Then the music lovers and record collectors who muster up the nerve to walk into the store have to deal with the pretentious clerks who make the whole experience a pain.

Some of these clerks are using their knowledge of music to boost self esteem and help them cope with their social anxiety, but most record store clerks are jerks because the customers made them that way.

Christopher Bickel of Dangerous Minds worked at a record store for over a decade and kept a notebook under the counter the entire time he worked there- so he and the other employees could write down the dumb things customers say:

Customer: “Do y’all have any cuban music? Like Kenny Chesney or Jimmy Buffett but without the Kenny Chesney and the Jimmy Buffett.”

One of our employees is eating a bag of chips when a customer comes up and asks “whatcha eatin’? Rootbeer?”

Customer: “Do you have CDs for turntables?”

Customer: “Do you guys buy records? I have a Lou Rawls album that my wife looked up online. It sells for $800. You can sell it for me and take a cut.”

Customer: “Why are there only 12 songs on this CD?”
Clerk: “Uh, that’s just how many songs are on it.”
Customer: “So, there’s six songs per side?”

(phone call)
Customer: “Is this the record place?”
Clerk: “Yes.”
Customer: “Could you tell me how to get a record deal? I do rap.”

Customer: “Do you have any Van Morrison? I didn’t see any under ‘V’.”
Clerk: (politely) “Well, it would actually be under ‘M’.”

Customer: “NEVERMIND!” (customer storms out)

Read more from How Your Pretentious Local Record Store A--hole Got That Way here

When people hear "artificial lifeform" they think of robots or androids, but technically any magically animated object could also be considered an artificial lifeform and would therefore have a lot in common with robo-sapiens.

But the odds of a factory built robot and a farm scarecrow ever meeting is a million to one, except for at outdoor music festivals apparently, where the two strange beings are free to be themselves.

Robot & Scarecrow from Factory Fifteen on Vimeo.

Robot & Scarecrow was written and directed by Kibwe Tavares for Factory Fifteen, and I must say they did a really good job of blending the 3D robot character in with the live action footage, it looks so real!

-Via Laughing Squid

Cindy Crawford is one of the most famous and successful supermodels of all time, but beyond that she's one of those people who seems to hold the secret to immortality- because she doesn't seem to age.

And to make the matter of Cindy Crawford's unfading beauty even more unreal the photo above was taken when she was just 16 years old, and it was shot in her high school boyfriend's backyard.

Cindy revealed the story behind the shot from 1982 that launched her career in her book Becoming:

“When I was 16, Roger Legel, a local photographer in my small town of DeKalb, Illinois, asked to photograph me for the college newspaper. I agreed, and he shot this picture at the backyard pool of my high-school boyfriend. I was still a teenager and dreamed of becoming something big—a nuclear physicist or the first woman president, the two biggest jobs I could think of. Doing this first shoot changed my life.

“The photographer encouraged me to go to Chicago to try to find an agent. At the time, my dad thought modeling was a nice word for prostitution, so my parents were very protective of me. I went to Chicago, ended up signing with Elite, and from there started doing catalogue shoots as well as working with Victor Skrebneski—the most important photographer in Chicago. This one photograph opened my eyes to a whole new world and started me down the path of modeling.”

-Via Vintage Everyday

When animal lovers Polly Lushchynskaya and her husband Panya rescued Jay the fox from a fur farm they instantly knew they had a buddy for life- because Jay wouldn't leave their side.

Luckily Polly worked from home so she had lots of time to spend with the cute little girl, and Jay quickly adapted to life indoors with her humans.

But when Polly took an office job she feared Jay would be lonely at home alone, so they went out and found her a little canine friend around her same size and age named Saimon.

Now the two spend their days hiding their humans' stuff, helping keep the family cat "entertained", and when their mom gets home they show her what perfect angels they've been all day.

But what they don't know is their mom Polly has been recording the stuff they do and posting it to Jay's Instagram account @jay_red_fox, so we all know how bratty that little red fox and her doggy pal can be!

Battle for new toy. Jay wins. #games #toys #fox #dog #foxanddog #petsofinstagram #petstagram #petsagram #cuteanimals #pets #pets thanks @anastasiagrimmm

A post shared by Jay (@jay_red_fox) on May 13, 2017 at 12:12am PDT

See more from Fox Saved From Fur Farm Gets New Buddy To Keep Her Company here

Wax statues are often so realistic looking you can hardly tell them apart from the person they're made to resemble, but it's hard for wax sculptors to reach this eerie-high level of hyperrealism.

So instead of trying to do the famous person's face justice some sculptors turn the whole thing into a horrific mess by using The Penguin as reference for Meryl Streep.

Sculptors of wax statues shaped like celebrities are also known for making odd choices about the details they include in each piece, which is how we end up with a sweaty J. Biebs statue nobody wants.  

And speaking of pop stars named Justin- get a load of this wax statue of Justin Timberlake, aka J. Tim. You can't say it doesn't not resemble him just a little bit, I mean the hair color's spot on!

See 14 Creepy Wax Statues Of Celebrities That'll Haunt Your Nightmares Forever here

Nick Offerman is a multi-talented guy who is equally good at growing a moustache, delivering a deadpan burn and playing a less jolly version of himself on TV, but when it comes to wood Nick's a master planer.

What I mean to say is Nick's a woodworker supreme, and he's even down to show raw recruits the ropes through his Offerman Wood Shop in East Los Angeles.

Nick has also likes to take to Twitter and answer tweets from twits who don't know the difference between a miter joint and that joint they just rolled using pages from their English book.

Here he is answering a bunch of questions on Wired's Twitter Tech Support:

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-Via Laughing Squid

Food can make you feel really good, food can make you feel sick, eat certain foods before bed and they may make you have some very strange dreams.

Most people will be in love with food their entire lives, and whether it's the healthy fruit and veggies, the meat or those sugary sweets there's always at least one kind of food that makes us swoon.

And it's often hard to choose between them since they all look so good!

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Cheat Day was created by Ringling College of Art and Design student Diem Tran, and aside from the wonky sound effects Cheat Day was a pretty darn good short with a fun foodie punchline.

It's virtually impossible to read any article about the Joel Schumacher film Batman & Robin without hearing mention of the nipples added to the costumes, which some have referred to as "nipplegate".

The choice to add this bit of anatomical correctness to the Dynamic Duo's costumes was seen as questionable by pretty much everyone, and for years people have been asking who thought that would be a good idea.

Well, in a recent interview with Vice Joel Schumacher finally explains how the Bat-Nipples made their way into Batman & Robin, after he apologizes profusely for the film:

[The costume] was made by Jose Fernandez, who was our brilliant lead sculpture. If you look at Batman and Batman Returns, it was the genius, Bob Ringwood that created those suits, so by the time we got to Batman Forever, the rubber and techniques had gotten so sophisticated. If you look at when Michael Keaton appears in the first suit, you’ll notice how large it is. It was brilliant but the best they could do at the time. By the time Batman Forever came around, rubber molding had become so much more advanced. So I said, let’s make it anatomical and gave photos of those Greek status and those incredible anatomical drawings you see in medical books. He did the nipples and when I looked at them, I thought, that’s cool.

Look, I apologize. I want to apologize to every fan that was disappointed because I think I owe them that.

Just imagine how the Bat-Nipples would have looked in 3D!

-Via io9

You know why the baby elephant parade business went belly up? It's not because of PETA or the death of the circus, it's because those little buggers really like to throw a fit. And trust me- you don't want to be on the wrong end of a little pissed off elephant's tantrum, because they will trunk you down!

The little guy in this video flailed around in frustration because he couldn't keep up with the speedy herding dog he was trying to play with, so he wagged his trunk and went waaah.

But the two interspecies pals who met at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand probably would have gotten along with one another if only they'd taken turns giving each other piggy back rides.

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-Via Laughing Squid

Pizza is one of those foods that you can forgive for melting your mouth when you bite into it, unlike those sneaky tater tots that are scolding hot and hanging out with the rest of their buddies who are regular temperature for some reason.

And when a pizza is "that good" (and trust me you know when a pizza joint is dishing out a pie that is "that good") the burns and scarring can be seen as part of the dining experience.

Or at least that's what we tell ourselves when we're reconstructing our faces sucking on ice the next day.... Comic by the fantastic Mr. Lovenstein!

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

Sometimes comic book covers are paintings created by guest artists, other times the covers feature finely detailed full color pen and ink panels, but they don't do nearly enough baloon sculpture covers.

Or I guess you would call it a "photo of a balloon sculpture cover", but at any rate these recreated covers by Phileas Flash made me smile.

His whimsical recreations of classic covers of issues like The Fantastic Four #1, Batman: The Killing Joke and Superman vs. Muhammad Ali are surprisingly detailed and very pop.

Here's more from Phileas on his "Balloon Heroes" project:

Over the last few months, I have been recreating classic comic book covers whenever I had time. These balloon sculptures are larger than life (fitting in a 10 foot by 10-foot space) and take many days to make. I even made had to make one in two sections (Superman vs Muhammed Ali) to allow me to visit New York in the middle of making it.

After I finished the main sculpture I use photoshop to add in the lettering (which are un-inflated balloons with wire inside). I'm just learning the program, so forgive any mistakes. I tried to keep digital manipulation to a minimum, so what you are seeing is mainly just latex and air (renewable resources). The balloons I use are all biodegradable and responsibly disposed of, so these sculptures were also super environmentally friendly.

See I Recreated Iconic Comic Book Covers Using Balloons here

Mary Poppins is about as far from death metal as you can get, and her chipper disposition and cheery colored clothing are all the proof Mary needs that she's not a fan of the heavy metal sound.

And yet there's something so right about this mashup created by Andy Rehfeldt, which features totally brutal vocals by Sera Hatchett of Mercy Brown, because it's so absurd you won't want it to end!

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-Via Geeks Are Sexy

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Fashion designers just can't accept that when it comes to clothing there is nothing new under the sun, so they keep trying to make bold moves in directions nobody should and keep creating strange items nobody wants.

Do people really want to wear clear plastic jeans that'll turn their lower half into a hot, sweaty mess? I seriously doubt it, and even the people who do will find once is enough.

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Fashion-minded consumers also don't really want a lace romper for men, a blazer that's half denim half pin striped wool, and they certainly won't be lining up to buy this gender bending monstrosity

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So why do fashion designers keep creating such crappy looks?

Because they can, and they believe any press is good press, which may be true for some fad-worthy fashion, but what self-respecting cowpoke would be caught dead in a pair of cowboy boot sandals? Perhaps some city slicker from New York City...

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See 10+ Of The Most Ridiculous Clothing Items That Are Actually Being Sold Right Now here