alt Hacker NewsPerhaps they find more acceptance due to the effects of pareidolia, where the viewer is more inclined to say, “Oh yeah, I see it - that’s a face!”
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WesolyKubeczek • today at 9:51 AM
Once you stretch boundaries thin enough, you could argue that all art is about inducing pareidolia. After all, it’s all just cracks on glass/smears of paint on canvas and so on. It matters little whether there was artistic intent or not, if the result looks like a face, it looks like a face. ;-)
The introduction on that Wikipedia article needs to be updated to include digital compression artefacts.
Cheap 4K dash cams are awesome at creating the wackiest noise in suboptimal lighting conditions.