Posted by RJones2125 at s77-206.resnet.ucla.edu on March 10, 2004 at 17:47:24:
In Reply to: "Photoshopping No Longer Cool" Sources Say posted by Smalls on March 10, 2004 at 17:07:12:
or something instead of writing really long, and really funny captions?
: "There's nothing interesting left to Photoshop" says The Office of Internet Fads, a non-
: government not-for-profit group monitoring the online zeigeist. "We should've realized that
: things were getting iffy when that damn thing with the kitten and God punishing you started
: being on every other message board but... we didn't act fast enough."
: On March 9th 2004, the last two interesting subjects for Photoshopping were breached. "After
: that one kid put Michael Jackson's head on a ferret's body, we knew the end was near... figured it
: was going to be WEEKS before the Muppets were going to be digitally introduced into an action
: movie poster, creating Indiana Frog and the Temple of Pork... we had no idea that it would be
: accomplished within mere hours, at five o'clock in the afternoon that very day. By a high school
: junior abusing his after-hours priviledges in the newspaper's computer lab."
: "All that's left now is... uh... giving beautiful women large noses, I guess" said Billy Schnaub, the
: aforementioned assistant editor at the Evansville High School Courier-Dispatch. "We're going to
: keep doing that until someone comes up with something else."
: This isn't the first time that loser techies with spare time have run out of ideas to run into the
: ground on the internet, indeed, situation harkens back to the Great Drought After The All-Your-
: Base song... or the period of time after "Wacky Japanese Flash Cartoons With Matthew Lesko
: Edited In" got old.
: "All we could do after that was... edit clips of Britney Spears swearing into early Beatles songs"
: said Schnaub before clicking on an old folder of old Photoshops whistfully... of his own head
: pasted onto Heidi Klum's body... and beginning to masturbate feverishly.
: Mike Cecconi contributed to this article.