{"id":11445,"date":"2023-09-06T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/xanthe-dobbie-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:38:37","slug":"xanthe-dobbie-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/xanthe-dobbie-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Xanthe Dobbie: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artist who makes \u2018little gay collages\u2019 about the internet shares what makes them laugh online, including Jordan Firstman, Patti Harrison and a Cars conspiracy theory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My dear friend and collaborator Harriet Gillies often refers to me as The Invisible Hand of the Internet \u2013 a title I proudly bare. This is, however, a bit of a misnomer. While I am a person who actively observes and reviews the internet, I\u2019m weirdly a bit of a bystander. I have a kind of a look-don\u2019t-touch approach, like a no-intervention documentarian watching little internet creatures troll each other in their native habitat so I can scurry home and make my little gay collages about them. From my observational high horse, I do, of course, see a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to condense this list down to 10 points seems a near-impossible task. As such, I\u2019ve structured this esteemed collection in layers of descent. Welcome to Xanthe Dobbie\u2019s doom scroll in three acts: gay sun, tech moon, unhinged rising<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2023\/sep\/07\/xanthe-dobbie-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/51756fdcc51613f8e01c1a9b349fb09a6293743f\/569_588_4526_2716\/master\/4526.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=aefae10f8cb2d642f866f5a29a9862b6\" title=\"Xanthe Dobbie: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)\" \/>The artist who makes \u2018little gay collages\u2019 about the internet shares what makes them laugh online, including Jordan Firstman, Patti Harrison and a Cars conspiracy theory<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nMy dear friend and collaborator Harriet Gillies often refers to me as The Invisible Hand of the Internet \u2013 a title I proudly bare. This is, however, a bit of a misnomer. While I am a person who actively observes and reviews the internet, I\u2019m weirdly a bit of a bystander. I have a kind of a look-don\u2019t-touch approach, like a no-intervention documentarian watching little internet creatures troll each other in their native habitat so I can scurry home and make my little gay collages about them. From my observational high horse, I do, of course, see a lot.<br \/>\nAttempting to condense this list down to 10 points seems a near-impossible task. As such, I\u2019ve structured this esteemed collection in layers of descent. Welcome to Xanthe Dobbie\u2019s doom scroll in three acts: gay sun, tech moon, unhinged rising.<br \/>\nSign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist who makes \u2018little gay collages\u2019 about the internet shares what makes them laugh online, including Jordan Firstman, Patti Harrison and a Cars conspiracy theory Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email My dear friend and collaborator Harriet Gillies often refers to me as The Invisible Hand of the Internet \u2013 a title I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/xanthe-dobbie-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xanthe Dobbie: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}