Mayoreo Is a Parody, But the Reactions Are Frighteningly Real

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The internet can be a useful source of information. There’s a vast canon of knowledge at your fingertips, more than can be physically archived on paper, collected into tomes, and shelved in physical buildings—and that doesn’t include multimedia. Instead of relying on handwritten notes surviving for decades, we can go back and look at digital archives of our social media to know how everyday people felt about the events and circumstances of the day.

The internet is also full of shit.

Sometimes it’s intentional disinformation to influence election outcomes or open satire that occasionally is too good to check, resulting in enough people biting the onion, with that itself becoming the actual news. The latest work from DoctorPhotograph, which specializes in product and packaging parodies, got the internet buzzing enough to attract the attention of the lampooned brands.