this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
51 points (93.2% liked)

Creepy Wikipedia

3924 readers
2 users here now

A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust

image

Guidelines:

  1. Follow the Code of Conduct

  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

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
decadentrebel@lemmy.world
CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone
51
Cortical homunculus - A distorted visual representation of the human form, with body part proportions analogous to the size of the area of the brain responsible for controlling them (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by 58008@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The validity of the 'map' of the brain used as the basis for this idea has been called into question.

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Man do I really hate this

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

For me it's not creepy, but very interesting.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The 3d ones are quite uncanny but also funny

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Someone read the response to my comment on feet and sexual attraction.

[–] aurelian@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Wow hands take a lot of meat to operate correctly.