Dude with Sign, Cats of Disneyland, and other interesting websites

Some clever folks have made names for themselves with shticks they perform on social media.

Dude with Sign

For starters, there’s Dude with Sign. Seth Phillips started an Instagram account with photos showing him holding pretend protest signs. (See article by Washingtonian magazine.)

Emily’sTikTok.edu

Emily Zugay earned fame for her hilarious TikTok videos where she does terrible redesigns of corporate and product logos. She pretends she’s using her college design education to improve the logos of corporations and brands. (See articles by PRWeek, AdAge and UW-Stout.)

Jake Thumbs Up Emoji

Another TikTok user, Jakie62, does videos where he figures out when globes were designed based upon historical map changes. (See article by Laughing Squid.)

What follows are some other interesting websites.

Cats of Disneyland

There’s a niche Instagram account that posts photos of the feral cats that roam Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. It is called Cats of Disneyland. (See article by Insider.)

Nineteenth century videos. Back to life.

A YouTube site called “Nineteenth century videos. Back to life” posts cleaned-up and colorized newsreel footage from the early 1900s and late 19th century. It includes film from the Titanic before its doomed voyage in 1912 and from the 1918 influenza pandemic. (See article by BGR.)

Public Domain Review

Readers of this website know that I’m a big supporter of the public domain and reasonable copyright laws. A good resource is the Public Domain Review.
Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to exploring works of literature and art that have gone off copyright and are now in the public domain.
Every year it publicizes new works that have entered the public domain. Works entering the public domain in 2022 included A.A. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh,” Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” and Agatha Christie’s “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”

SorryAntivaxxer

The website SorryAntivaxxer documents the many antivaxxers who have spread misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic and then died of the disease. Spoiler alert: there are many. (See article by the Los Angeles Times.)