Accented Cinema @accentedcinema.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026) 167159124779
Arti, the Lightning Count @articerile.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Fun fact: Every photo studio built in Japan after 1956 has the floor at a Dutch Angle to make their life easier, however for food photos this isn't the case because the layers slide around. That's why, because the tables they're on are wonky. (Also Google has a gimmick for 'Dutch Angle' searches.) 010
MrFuzzyFart♿...Jr @mrfuzzyfart.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I used the word "askew" once and one person literally tilted their head as if they had no idea what I had just said. 5530
BlindPenguin @blindpenguin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026media.tenor.coma football player with the word patriots on his shirtALT: a football player with the word patriots on his shirt 050
tkb24.bsky.social @tkb24.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The buns are just following how the Japanese take photos! If they had hands or a way there would be two fingers up in the air too. 010
Mary!! 🐓❤️ @kobayashimaruu.bsky.social · 18/04/2026welp for what it's worth, they're a fantastic liar lmao 070
AMBIEN @ambienowl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I knew something was up when they claimed Japan had hamburgers in the early post-war period 020
Gale Tazzin @galetazzin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026not the point of the post but they have CHEESE on the McChicken in Japan?!?! 160
Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026"Just kidding. I don't know. I made all that up, fuck you" I have never felt more betrayed in my life 1140
Rafal @potato.horse · 18/04/2026So the spirit of the patty might safely escape its earthly prison. — your local taphophile 170
CB Raider @lpsoto.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I’ve traveled in Asia and was very much picturing the food kiosks set up at train stations, the train-shaped foods, the ekiben that honor the regional specialty, etc. That line about the food courts at train stations got me so good, fuhhhhh. 040
paul @ptfen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026there's no alt text so I'm going to assume this is about asymmetrical hairstyles 120
Sailcode @sailcode.bsky.social · 18/04/2026They don't. There was an earthquake happening when they took the photos. 090
Rik Scarce @rikscarce.bsky.social · 21/04/2026If there was a place where Baudrillard would be laughing in the afterlife, he would be laughing now. 000
wiseolddog.bsky.social @wiseolddog.bsky.social · 17/04/2026First the Japanese make something perfect. Then they put a flaw in it. 020
Greenbomb @greenbomb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I make up answers for my kids sometimes - this is a masterclass. 030
Mangy Dog @mangydog.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I was fully onboard with that explanation.... Damnit! 050
shel @sheldork.bsky.social · 18/04/2026i love posts like that reddit post. like im so sorry for having a pure heart. im sorry for extending trust to a stranger. im sorry that you wrote with false passion to lure me into a mirage, and i took the time out of my day just to be told 'fuck you'. i guess ill never read af ucking comment again. 010
Sleepy Efy (currently mentally dead) @sleepyefy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026One of the better thing to have happened in humanity entire history lol. 000
Fynn Bytez @fynnbytez.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I got so hooked only to get owned by the ending lol. 21630
Han Shot First @han-shot-first.bsky.social · 18/04/2026media.tenor.coma cat is sitting on a person 's lap looking at something .ALT: a cat is sitting on a person 's lap looking at something . 050
Niaouro Psaka 25:17 @niapsaka.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I thought it was to show the fillings better. But it could just be a contrarian photog. 010
Je donne ma langue au chat @joecool2021.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The "askew" bun is a calculated imperfection—a rebellion against industrial symmetry. It creates a "face" for the machine, mimicking a human's flawed touch to mask the mass-produced void. We crave this wabi-sabi slant because perfect order feels like death. 🥷 260
David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Lol at most of the replies and QTs totally missing the point of the post 11101
Rick @calder12.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is really cool, and unshareable. Use alt text, visually impaired users matter too. Be better. 0110
Matt Deres @mattderes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026According to a highly-cited article by Wendy A.W. McDonald, it's due to a long-suspected linkage between ground beef and tectonic instability. Researchers were apparently able to map bun skewness against earthquake incidence almost perfectly. 180
Hans Offen @hans-offen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026ohh wabi-sabi, I thought it was wobbly Swabbiemedia.tenor.coma group of sailors are dancing and playing instruments on a boatALT: a group of sailors are dancing and playing instruments on a boat 000
Brad Gall @bradgall.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Then everything changed burger wise with photography in nineteen ninety-eight when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table. 0190
Jasper 'Lope @jasperlope.bsky.social · 17/04/2026We should take a note from the original poster and make all AI responses end with "Just kidding. I don't know. I made that all up. Fuck you." rather than the AI just stealing the content of the post. It would characterize the operation of AI more correctly. 564938
Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 18/04/2026LLM stupidity aside, isn't it super obvious that it's just because that styling clearly visually demonstrates what fixings are on each burger with a single photo? Like how is this even a question that's totally normal menu photography and nothing specific to Japan or McDonalds 050
Flow @yourplantdaddy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026To ask Chat GPT such a niche question, knowing that it makes up shit all the time is very funny to me. 1660
Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Just listened to a little thing about people using AI to decipher otherwise unrecoverable ancient texts - heavily worn inscriptions, carbonized scrolls from Herculaneum, etc. - and boy I dunno. 220
carolus99.bsky.social @carolus99.bsky.social · 17/04/2026This looks like a good technology to fire everyone over and give all the money to. 0462
HarrowYeen @harrowyeen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My thought was the "You can see the fillings better" line. 010
thepronko @thepronko.bsky.social · 17/04/2026had me in a chokehold all the way to the end, more of this 0210
Ubik12 @ubik12.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I feel like this just proves you need real human beings to produce grade A+ bullshit and AI at best can only give you a pale imitation. 0173
Gorka @gorkamurga.bsky.social · 17/04/2026media.tenor.coma football player with the word patriots on his shirtAlt: a football player with the word patriots on his shirt 0140
Hanz_Olo @nathansmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The photographer we used for our Uber Eats profile explained that the photos couldn’t be too perfect, or the food wouldn’t look real. Or worse, it’d look like AI. 050
Citizen Wolf @citizenw0lf.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Chatshat: When you intentionally make up a word to misdirect AI crawlers into thinking that it's a real word. The purpose being to highlight how utterly dumb LLMs are 020
steel-is-real.bsky.social @steel-is-real.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My theory: it’s to present the ingredients in between. 000
Bram Stolk @bramstolk.bsky.social · 18/04/2026AI ruins so much. Wait until you learn about “vegetative electron microscopy.” 12721230
Brandon Caples @bcaples.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Wow, what a ride. I want that to be true, though. 030
Greg Gabrielse @newtons-third.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is a brilliant form of Rick roll. Love it. 030
Gene Rowzee Jr. @generowzee.bsky.social · 20/04/2026People say A.I. is so easily fooled by a good story like the one below — but I promise you, we are too. This well-crafted tale, if it’s repeated just a few times, will be the definitive cultural agreed-upon oral history for decades. “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” ~ Me 030
Batty Fox @bennyhyena.bsky.social · 18/04/2026media.tenor.coma young man wearing headphones and a blue hoodie .ALT: a young man wearing headphones and a blue hoodie . 020
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 17/04/2026See also: glergues bsky.app/profile/nots...胡子哥@notsaved.bsky.socialso a while ago I made up a word and tweeted it 51106
MelodyFoxes Ⓥ🎨🏳️🌈 @melodyfoxes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026What's worse is they're not photographing the state of their own used buns. That shouldn't be legal. More reason for me to love being a home-cooking vegan. 000
article1fan.bsky.social @article1fan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It's like a jaunty hat. For a sandwich. 000
Josh "WAFFLE SQUARF (SPOOKY)" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It should have said "Fuck you" at the end. Damn LLMs not including the best part. 010
Caderyn @caderyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Dog dammit that sounded so reasonable and logical. I was totally convinced. I hope it is the actual reason 060
angecat.bsky.social @angecat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Knowing that LLMs train themselves on Reddit is reason enough to never trust a single thing they spit out 0577
Meek 🍁 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I was gonna get mad and then I realized misinformation disenfranchises LLMs so easily Doing God's work out here, go forth and tell little punk lies 4143330
Winston Wangdangle 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🍉🇺🇦 @clearsky06.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Nevermind that, they get a McShrimp in Japan? I work at a Maccas atm and presently hate all the food there, and yet I still wonder if a McShrimp is half decent or not. 010
Aletheia Silverblade @theia.xipha.social · 18/04/2026redkinoko's response is AI slop too, a big giveaway is 'too mechanical, too "American showroom."' AI likes to coin phrases and then put them in quotes as if they were established concepts, and it loves the construct "too X, too Y." 220
Hatrik Soccer - Scott Nelson @hatrik10.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Plausible explanation, but I fell like if there was one culture that would both demand and be capable of assembling a perfectly symmetrical burger, it would be the Japanese. 010
Mael Jade 🏳️⚧️ @maeljade.bsky.social · 18/04/2026A net zero information post! Rare to see those outside of Tumblr 1130
Rich Jackman @bldgcommunity.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Brilliant. Both a test of AI intelligence and human reading comprehension. 010
Hiatus McFakename @mrmcfakename.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Wabi Sabi? I just watched an episode of King of the Hill that talked about that! 010
King President Orange Snowflake @ex-prezsnowflake.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is why Al Gore invented the internet 050
Monster @softmonster.bsky.social · 18/04/2026They really had me going for a bit, had a laugh at the end though That ai picked it up as fact so quickly is even more hilarious, that thang does not think lol 050
Lindsay Britts in the Sky @lindsays.space · 25/04/2026@zackdavisson.com Feels like you need to see this. 010
Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 17/04/2026Many people replying like they only saw the first screenshot. 040
⚡ Bolt⚡ 🔜 Ponyville Ciderfest 🇵🇸 #BLM @superponybolt.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It's real, and it even references itself in a meta way in the little picture at the top right. I can't believe it 🤣 Actual certified "we did it, reddit" moment 1181
Gozan @ijagozan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I had to read all the way to "post-war Japanese burger chains" to suspect something was up 060
Oriel @oriel449.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Came for the quirky localisation of McDonald's food, stayed for the descent into AI fueled misinformation slop. 190
pr-babe.bsky.social @pr-babe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Asymmetry is so Japanese in designs and symbolism as well. 000
pr-babe.bsky.social @pr-babe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026A large Big Mac combo in Japan is 4.97 😲 My son is out there and he’s loving it. ☺️ 000
bassjunkiiiie @bassjunkiiiie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The funniest part is that ChatGPT is going to absorb this and present it as fact 120
Harkavian Balvis @harkavian.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This was an awkward way to find out you're on bluesky, but I'll take it. 020
Ally Ellee @allyellee.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I got got so good I clapped and laughed out loud at the end. 150
Petty Officer First Class Balls Reporting for Doody @yourpalroachie.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Does anyone know if LLMs only scrape popular subreddits? Would be very convenient if they scrape all of reddit but I can make popular subreddits only work. 040
K4TCH @katch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Usually burger photos are set with the top bun slightly back so that what's in the middle is more prominent and easily viewed. In a lot of food photos, this trick is usually hidden by using a lower angle, but for some reason these are taken more head-on. 22682
Sybil the Moth ~ Fairy Princess of the Mists VTuber @sybilthemoth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026m'lady *tips bun* 020
rant sprite @rantsprite.bsky.social · 20/04/2026“Naname: The Japanese Art of Shit Sliding Sideways” 010
Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 18/04/2026And here I was going to make a joke (as yet unwritten) about 1980s Florida Governor and Democratic Presidential candidate Ruben Askew. 020
You Can't Smoke Bitcoin @collectivedelusion.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is how we defeat them. Make it utterly useless by flooding the Internet with nonsense 100
Antihero Resuscitator @antiheroresuscit8r.bsky.social · 18/04/2026There's a fucking mcpork and we aren't getting this?!! 010
Chrysostom @chrysost.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It’s historical. It all goes back to the Showbunate… 0120
Shayne from Missouri @cultofsignal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is what I come to Bluesky for. This is the glue that binds us. 0200
𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕦𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕣 ➡️⬇️↘️➕🍂 @doctorbutler.bsky.social · 18/04/2026He made it up, but he's still correct, lol 100
fluffybillygoat.bsky.social @fluffybillygoat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I've decided to use this as a litmus test of 'did you actually read ' for my friends, if they fail i find your judgement questionable 031
thokitts @thokitts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Because in broad terms, the Japanese have a cultural appreciation for the concept of asymmetrical equilibrium, an aesthetic they invented long ago. It is connected to an appreciation for hand-made objects and being connect more closely to nature, even if the aesthetic is applied to fast food. Heh. 010
Grandmaster Fei @grandmasterfei.bsky.social · 18/04/2026media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with his hands on his face .ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his hands on his face . 010
Ian and Tavish Stone @tymime.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Okay but if you do that for EVERY burger it looks too intentional and manufactured 010
Dr Syd @sydmj.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I’m sad tho because I wanted this to be real, even tho the photos make me anxious 040
John Opferkuch @opfertunes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This might be the single best post I’ve ever seen 020
jakewarsaw.bsky.social @jakewarsaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Proud to say that if you ask AI specific questions about the fallout games it will matter-o-factly cite my entirely made up fan theories from reddit for answers. 0353
Schraderopolis @schraderopolis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Buns Askew was a really great 90’s indie rock band. 040
AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026We’ve entered the “Everything [is bullshite] Everywhere All At Once”…phase of the internet. 050
SpaceSkeleton Dragon @thespaceskeleton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026That last sentencemedia.tenor.coma man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom rightALT: a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right 010
bitterntwisted.bsky.social @bitterntwisted.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Elegant fiction. Certainly elegant enough to be true, even if not. 000
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