Did you know that the current earliest known cave painting depicts a pig hunt?
Same deal, we haven’t changed. “’bout to eat a great meal, gotta document this for the ages.”
Michael
I think taking pictures of *making* food is totally legit. You can be proud of your cooking and want to show it off. Hell even of the final result. Once my wife made pancakes so perfect they looked like they were fake, like plastic models for a pancake commercial (https://imgur.com/gallery/29Wqq5p). I took a picture. But pictures of food you just… bought? Why?
during the first lockdown we were allowed to go outside for 1hr a day within a 1km radius. i started taking pictures of all the graffiti, stickers, scribbles and scratches i could find on walls, benches, posts, pavements…
it absolutely did get me to pay attention to my urban environment in a much closer and granular way.
Food and cooking in general is an artform and there is a certain aesthetic to culinary accomplishments taht can be appreciated. Food can be pretty and taking pride in something you made yourself is valid. That being said snapping pictures of fast food with the hope of becoming insta-famous just feels obnoxious to me. It might be a youth thing I’ve aged out of.
Yeah, a Japanese guitarist I watch on Instagram and Twitter often posts photos of the food she’s made. It’s fun to read the translations of her comments and see how enthusiastic she is about some of it.
No, Ika is co-guitarist for the band Ark Royal, who are from Sapporo.
Their guitarist/vocalist is Illumina, aka Natsumi Tachikawa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMFwFknnsmo
Dr. Gonzo
Cooking is more of a craft than an art. The difference being that while good art ought never to repeat itself, good craft ought ALWAYS to repeat itself.
Michael
Cooking can absolutely be both.
Needfuldoer
Clearly you’ve never had my cooking.
Clif
I’ve never been invited.
Decidedly Orthogonal
ehhh. I like to vary things. Even good food gets boring when it’s always the same. Knowing enough to tweak things up or down to fit a mood is an art as much as a craft.
Great painters master the craft of applying colour to a surface. But the artistry lies in using the medium to evoke feelings in the viewer.
Food is a medium, and preparation is a craft. But there is absolutely artistry to be found in cuisine.
Victor
I’m not a line cook. I don’t cook from recipes, and I don’t try to make repeatable meals. That would be boring.
Axel
I don’t think sharing food photos is meant by most people as an attempt to get famous or gain clout or anything (though of course there are people trying to become famous food bloggers etc on it). Me and my friends share and sometimes post food that we didn’t make, but it’s usually so we can all commiserate over wanting the food and wanting to eat together (even pre-pandemic, as I was (am) not living near most of my friends anymore). And sometimes you just think “that looks so good everyone should see how good this looks”
Clif
Clearly, the point of posting pictures of food from restaurants is to say “I’m about to eat this and you aren’t.”
For me I’ll take pictures if it’s a restaurant I like and haven’t been to before to recommend to friends or sometimes to remind myself if it’s a place I’m impressesd by. Same reason for why I like friends food pics.
There is string evidence that waiting before eating increases the pleasure of eating
So while it’s not the entire reason why, stopping to take a picture of your food and uploading it actually makes the food taste better (though this same effect could be achieved through other means of delayed gratification)
thejeff
So my inability to get the meal ready on time is actually me delaying gratification so the food will taste better? I’ll take that excuse.
The only time I can understand it is when restaurants take pictures of their food to put in their menus. Otherwise I don’t really see the point of taking pictures of your food when you could just eat it instead.
Clif
What? And bypass the opportunity to make your friends hungry?
I occasionally take a picture of food I’ve prepared myself, if I’m particularly pleased with how it came out (and, honestly, even then, I usually don’t).
Eh, I take pictures of food sometimes – without posting them, just for my own sake – to both remind me of delicious things that I can make when I’m in the “there’s nothing to maaaake” food blahs and to not-so-subtly remind me that I *am* capable of eating better than whatever bag of chips or frozen thing is at hand when my spoons are running out for the day, heh (aka “remember this dish? It’s just rice and sliced veggies, everything is already prepped in the fridge and freezer, you just need to toss the rice in the mic for a minute then plop it all on a plate”).
Not me. Social Media, like Taco Bell, is a trap. Like the pitcher plant, they sing their siren song of new sensations and sweet sustenance, only to leave you stuck in the liquifying detritus of humanity.
But Taco Bell? Fucking sweet, savory goodness of the gods!!!! ???
Proxiehunter
I don’t think you’re allowed to show your octogon on social media.
Delicious Taffy
You can show whatever you want if you’ve got a naked Sonic character next to it.
RassilonTDavros
Okay, but, hear me out:
what if the naked Sonic character you show on social media isn’t an actual Sonic character, she’s your OC who’s Espio the Chameleon’s daughter? and also she’s, like, sixteen, but you say it’s okay to draw her naked because the age of consent in her society that you made up is even lower? and also you’re a professionally-published comic book writer who used to do Sonic comics, and you’re sad to this day about never getting to do that one story idea where a fifteen-year old loses her virginity to some guy in his twenties?
this has been your unsolicited sonic fact of the month
Delicious Taffy
Is it a symptom of something that I automatically know/assume you’re talking about Ken Penders? Diagnose me, y’all.
That dude’s got a lot to answer for.
Yumi
I diagnose you with Very Online. It’s fatal.
Delicious Taffy
FUCK
Clif
That too can be fatal if you have a weak heart.
I would have said that 15 in chameleon years was probably old age, but what do I know.
Spencer
No, no, it’s even better.
This is the character that Penders is writing for autism inclusivity, which he knows Sonic fans are all about since autistic people “like bright colours and fast action” and that’s why they like Sonic so much.
The Quirk
My ex wanted me to get a Sonic tattoo, and every year something new comes along to make me happy I didn’t do it.
Like having been broken up with them for one more year than last year?
Thag Simmons
Sonic comics seem kind of insane
Keulen
I like Sonic and I’m autistic, but I think that’s more to do with the fact that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the first video game I played when I was a kid. I’m kinda glad I mostly stuck to the old Sonic games and never got into the comics and other weird stuff. The Sonic fanart I’ve seen is bizarre enough.
On the other hand, we have to accept that big, sweeping labels like this were created by and are ultimately controlled by neurotypicals and are inevitably a VERY distorted lense to attempt to understand us from, and an ESPECIALLY distorted lense to try to develop a CHARACTER from.
I’ve known about Instagram for the better part of 10 years, but never used it. Even had a point where I wondered to myself, “Where can I post nothing but landscape pictures, people can like it, and they can share their own landscapes—oh, Instagram. Nevermind, that sounds like doom”
Smartass answer: take it up with Bill Waterson
Nerd answer: ooh really?? tell me more ???
King Daniel
From memory, to “weird” something originally meant to foretell/control its fate or destiny; a person described as “weird” (e.g. the Norns from Norse mythology, or Shakespeare’s “Weird Sisters”) would be someone who weirded. 😛
Clif
And who better to control our fate and destiny than a King.
person: you’re weird
me, from now on: thanks, but you’re mistaken. the constraints of physics, biology and social constructs are the real weirds. i personally don’t weird anyone very much at all.
person: …ok then
me: arguably, i don’t weird myself really, if we consider that my subconscious…
person: *is running away*
Well, she’ll probably be leaving at some point. Very uncommon to stay at Indiana University forever, and those who do are outliers that should not be counted.
209 thoughts on “Ever even”
Ana Chronistic
who instas Taco Bell?
…
who instas ¬_¬
Thag Simmons
Liz, apparently
Sporky
Lizstagram
Kyrik Michalowski
I’ve never understood why people take pictures of their food to begin with.
UrsulaDavina
“Food is for eating, places are for being. End of discussion.” Ron Swanson
Jamie
I have a lot of negative opinions about it, and some positive ones because I’ve seen some really nice food porn.
It’s weird.
Doctor_Who
Did you know that the current earliest known cave painting depicts a pig hunt?
Same deal, we haven’t changed. “’bout to eat a great meal, gotta document this for the ages.”
Michael
I think taking pictures of *making* food is totally legit. You can be proud of your cooking and want to show it off. Hell even of the final result. Once my wife made pancakes so perfect they looked like they were fake, like plastic models for a pancake commercial (https://imgur.com/gallery/29Wqq5p). I took a picture. But pictures of food you just… bought? Why?
milu
These are scary.
Were they…good?
Michael
They were.
Shadow Dreamer
For me? “I managed to overcome my disorder and eat something today!” is worth celebrating in photo form.
nathan
Because taking pictures is part of how people enjoy things. https://xkcd.com/1314/
thejeff
Some people at least. It’s weird to me, because I don’t have any of that instinct at all, but I get that some people really do want photos.
milu
nice comic.
during the first lockdown we were allowed to go outside for 1hr a day within a 1km radius. i started taking pictures of all the graffiti, stickers, scribbles and scratches i could find on walls, benches, posts, pavements…
it absolutely did get me to pay attention to my urban environment in a much closer and granular way.
Sirksome
Food and cooking in general is an artform and there is a certain aesthetic to culinary accomplishments taht can be appreciated. Food can be pretty and taking pride in something you made yourself is valid. That being said snapping pictures of fast food with the hope of becoming insta-famous just feels obnoxious to me. It might be a youth thing I’ve aged out of.
tim gueguen
Yeah, a Japanese guitarist I watch on Instagram and Twitter often posts photos of the food she’s made. It’s fun to read the translations of her comments and see how enthusiastic she is about some of it.
Ray Radlein
Shonen Knife?
tim gueguen
No, Ika is co-guitarist for the band Ark Royal, who are from Sapporo.
Their guitarist/vocalist is Illumina, aka Natsumi Tachikawa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMFwFknnsmo
Dr. Gonzo
Cooking is more of a craft than an art. The difference being that while good art ought never to repeat itself, good craft ought ALWAYS to repeat itself.
Michael
Cooking can absolutely be both.
Needfuldoer
Clearly you’ve never had my cooking.
Clif
I’ve never been invited.
Decidedly Orthogonal
ehhh. I like to vary things. Even good food gets boring when it’s always the same. Knowing enough to tweak things up or down to fit a mood is an art as much as a craft.
Great painters master the craft of applying colour to a surface. But the artistry lies in using the medium to evoke feelings in the viewer.
Food is a medium, and preparation is a craft. But there is absolutely artistry to be found in cuisine.
Victor
I’m not a line cook. I don’t cook from recipes, and I don’t try to make repeatable meals. That would be boring.
Axel
I don’t think sharing food photos is meant by most people as an attempt to get famous or gain clout or anything (though of course there are people trying to become famous food bloggers etc on it). Me and my friends share and sometimes post food that we didn’t make, but it’s usually so we can all commiserate over wanting the food and wanting to eat together (even pre-pandemic, as I was (am) not living near most of my friends anymore). And sometimes you just think “that looks so good everyone should see how good this looks”
Clif
Clearly, the point of posting pictures of food from restaurants is to say “I’m about to eat this and you aren’t.”
milu
for an utterly baffling example of how whacky the intersection of social media and food can get, see this hilarious video by Big Joel about a series of tweets by Paul Joseph Watson.
Archieve
For me I’ll take pictures if it’s a restaurant I like and haven’t been to before to recommend to friends or sometimes to remind myself if it’s a place I’m impressesd by. Same reason for why I like friends food pics.
zee
People put effort into plating. A lot of food is designed to be pretty, so take a picture
Paradox
There is string evidence that waiting before eating increases the pleasure of eating
So while it’s not the entire reason why, stopping to take a picture of your food and uploading it actually makes the food taste better (though this same effect could be achieved through other means of delayed gratification)
thejeff
So my inability to get the meal ready on time is actually me delaying gratification so the food will taste better? I’ll take that excuse.
Clif
Sounds legit.
Keulen
The only time I can understand it is when restaurants take pictures of their food to put in their menus. Otherwise I don’t really see the point of taking pictures of your food when you could just eat it instead.
Clif
What? And bypass the opportunity to make your friends hungry?
Carl Muckenhoupt
I occasionally tweet pics of food that I made, but that’s because I’m proud of it and want to show it off.
Alaric
I occasionally take a picture of food I’ve prepared myself, if I’m particularly pleased with how it came out (and, honestly, even then, I usually don’t).
Ana Chronistic
bc sometimes you have to see it to believe it
Aletheia
Eh, I take pictures of food sometimes – without posting them, just for my own sake – to both remind me of delicious things that I can make when I’m in the “there’s nothing to maaaake” food blahs and to not-so-subtly remind me that I *am* capable of eating better than whatever bag of chips or frozen thing is at hand when my spoons are running out for the day, heh (aka “remember this dish? It’s just rice and sliced veggies, everything is already prepped in the fridge and freezer, you just need to toss the rice in the mic for a minute then plop it all on a plate”).
True Survivor
Not me. Social Media, like Taco Bell, is a trap. Like the pitcher plant, they sing their siren song of new sensations and sweet sustenance, only to leave you stuck in the liquifying detritus of humanity.
The Wellerman
Same here bruh.
If I eventually made a social media account, I’d never post anything to it but my games, mostly ’cause otherwise their censorbots can suck my octogon.
The Wellerman
But Taco Bell? Fucking sweet, savory goodness of the gods!!!! ???
Proxiehunter
I don’t think you’re allowed to show your octogon on social media.
Delicious Taffy
You can show whatever you want if you’ve got a naked Sonic character next to it.
RassilonTDavros
Okay, but, hear me out:
what if the naked Sonic character you show on social media isn’t an actual Sonic character, she’s your OC who’s Espio the Chameleon’s daughter? and also she’s, like, sixteen, but you say it’s okay to draw her naked because the age of consent in her society
that you made upis even lower? and also you’re a professionally-published comic book writer who used to do Sonic comics, and you’re sad to this day about never getting to do that one story idea where a fifteen-year old loses her virginity to some guy in his twenties?this has been your unsolicited sonic fact of the month
Delicious Taffy
Is it a symptom of something that I automatically know/assume you’re talking about Ken Penders? Diagnose me, y’all.
That dude’s got a lot to answer for.
Yumi
I diagnose you with Very Online. It’s fatal.
Delicious Taffy
FUCK
Clif
That too can be fatal if you have a weak heart.
I would have said that 15 in chameleon years was probably old age, but what do I know.
Spencer
No, no, it’s even better.
This is the character that Penders is writing for autism inclusivity, which he knows Sonic fans are all about since autistic people “like bright colours and fast action” and that’s why they like Sonic so much.
The Quirk
My ex wanted me to get a Sonic tattoo, and every year something new comes along to make me happy I didn’t do it.
milu
Like having been broken up with them for one more year than last year?
Thag Simmons
Sonic comics seem kind of insane
Keulen
I like Sonic and I’m autistic, but I think that’s more to do with the fact that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the first video game I played when I was a kid. I’m kinda glad I mostly stuck to the old Sonic games and never got into the comics and other weird stuff. The Sonic fanart I’ve seen is bizarre enough.
The Wellerman
Like we needed another reason to hate Penders ?
On the other hand, we have to accept that big, sweeping labels like this were created by and are ultimately controlled by neurotypicals and are inevitably a VERY distorted lense to attempt to understand us from, and an ESPECIALLY distorted lense to try to develop a CHARACTER from.
mrnoidea
I’ve known about Instagram for the better part of 10 years, but never used it. Even had a point where I wondered to myself, “Where can I post nothing but landscape pictures, people can like it, and they can share their own landscapes—oh, Instagram. Nevermind, that sounds like doom”
mrnoidea
Wait, why can’t I see my Gravatar? It’s just text of my username rn
Delicious Taffy
Your device is hainted.
Pylgrim
Who uses insta as a verb!
milu
verbing weirds language.
King Daniel
Weird was a verb before it was a noun!
milu
Smartass answer: take it up with Bill Waterson
Nerd answer: ooh really?? tell me more ???
King Daniel
From memory, to “weird” something originally meant to foretell/control its fate or destiny; a person described as “weird” (e.g. the Norns from Norse mythology, or Shakespeare’s “Weird Sisters”) would be someone who weirded. 😛
Clif
And who better to control our fate and destiny than a King.
Teach us your weirding ways.
milu
person: you’re weird
me, from now on: thanks, but you’re mistaken. the constraints of physics, biology and social constructs are the real weirds. i personally don’t weird anyone very much at all.
person: …ok then
me: arguably, i don’t weird myself really, if we consider that my subconscious…
person: *is running away*
Azhrei Vep
Who even knows what insta means?
(Not me.)
Spencer
I prefer using updog.
Clif
What’s updog?
milu
^^^ best comment ever
close down the internet
Roborat
Somebody has to play the straight man.
Doctor_Who
Top 10 anime betrayals.
Clif
You left out the link.
Goes off to google “Top 10 inevitable anime betrayals.”
Sirksome
Liz is never leaving either.
Thag Simmons
Well, she’ll probably be leaving at some point. Very uncommon to stay at Indiana University forever, and those who do are outliers that should not be counted.
Ohmsford