#### A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly
fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust image
[https://i.imgur.com/82WfIgF.png] ##### Guidelines: 1. Follow the Code of
Conduct [https://legal.lemmy.world/] 2. Do NOT report posts YOU don’t consider
creepy 3. Strictly Wikipedia submissions only 4. Please follow the post naming
convention: Wikipedia Article Title - Short Synopsis 5. Tick the NSFW box for
submissions with inappropriate thumbnails. 6. Please refrain from any offensive
language/profanities in the posts titles, unless necessary (e.g. it’s in the
original article’s title). ##### Mandatory: If you didn’t find an article
“creepy,” you must announce it in the thread so everyone will know that you
didn’t find it creepy image [https://i.imgur.com/WWq2agj.gif]
Our first LW Community Spotlight is CreepyWikipedia - A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust!
In all seriousness, I love that the community bought in to the theme and started engaging as well as sharing content that I’ve never heard of. I think that’s the beauty of it, learning stuff you normally wouldn’t know through conventional means.
We also wanted to stray away from the serial killers/murders that the OG subreddit was known for by keeping those to the minimum and posting more obscure factoids, at the expense of entries that’s “not creepy” - but you can’t please everyone.
@[email protected] how does it feel to have your community featured?
Depends how much money I get
In all seriousness, I love that the community bought in to the theme and started engaging as well as sharing content that I’ve never heard of. I think that’s the beauty of it, learning stuff you normally wouldn’t know through conventional means.
We also wanted to stray away from the serial killers/murders that the OG subreddit was known for by keeping those to the minimum and posting more obscure factoids, at the expense of entries that’s “not creepy” - but you can’t please everyone.
Very poetic thank you.