recently we launched a new thing

our patrons now dig up strange finds, and the best ones become posts on our channels, with their names on them

this is what "built by community" means in practice

how it looks ↓

webdriver torso

finds №001

in 2013 youtube started filling with 11-second videos
red rectangle, blue rectangle, a beep
a new one every few minutes

77,000 videos before anyone noticed

people spent months decoding them. theories ranged from spy number stations to alien contact to Cicada 3301

an italian blogger traced it to a google office in Zürich

it was just an automated system testing YouTube's video quality. Google's official response was a rickroll

our patron said about this:

it was just machines talking to machines

humans weren't supposed to see it at all

found by @bigbaIIs

your next step is to do nothing

upd: we added a 3-month plan

we heard your feedback, so now there's a shorter option

one thing: it doesn't auto-renew. check your email so you don't miss the renewal (or just take the yearly one)

probablynothing.xyz

Default Mode ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;)

new essay with @spaceheadtr

you pick up the phone to check one thing. you surface 40 minutes later and can't name a single image you saw

1) why the feed hunts your empty seconds
2) why doing nothing was never nothing

read →

someone sold nothing for $18,300

finds №002

in may 2021 italian artist Salvatore Garau sold an invisible sculpture at auction in Milan. the buyer got a certificate and instructions: display it in a 5x5 ft empty space at home

even a vacuum has weight, he said

5 years earlier Tom Miller built an invisible structure in a public square in Gainesville, Florida. he called it Nothing

when the sale went viral, Miller hired a lawyer: "i should be credited with Nothing, and Gainesville, Florida, not Italy, is where Nothing happened first"

the letter was sent. the suit was never filed. Garau never responded

our patron said about this:

two artists, thousands of miles and five years apart, both decided the most valuable thing they could build was nothing at all

one made $18k off it, the other just wanted credit

somehow even nothing has an ownership dispute

found by @ne_david