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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 21/09/2026

Basically two decades exactly, because I remember having my mind absolutely blown by this exact render when it came up on Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gl...

3D photorealistic render of an assortment of glassware, along with a pair of dice, on a tile corner countertop.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 09/09/2026

Also the Encanto discourse is not doing their job if they don't hammer home that the #1 hit single is hinging on the fact that the characters come in to explicitly visualize their *FORTUNE-TELLING* blood relative like this:

Dutch angle of Bruno hooded to accentuate his large nose and smiling facial hair, as he gives a stereotypical fortune teller hand gesture.

Low angle of Bruno with glowing green eyes, hunched over frame with sprawled fingers, as if to pounce.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 28/08/2026

Now a perennial welcome to the world ritual

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 18/08/2026

First (Disney) World Problems

From Wikipedia: Section - History. Subsection - Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. TBA. Subsection - Laugh-O-Gram Studio. In 1921, Walt Disney was contracted by Milton Feld to animate twelve cartoons, which he called Newman's Laugh-O-Grams.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 07/08/2026

There's probably at least like 4 different Freudian applications of Homer to the Hollywood experience, but don't confuse the noble migration west with the wartime round-trip journey between Long Beach and the Valley.

Lived here fourteen years and only today did I realize that North Hollywood is actually Homer central. Two photos of signage reading "Odyssey Video" and "Iliad Bookshop".

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 08/06/2026

I've just been a big fan of the Crash Bandicoot space backgrounds.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 24/05/2026

Also "from the creative minds you know from the Game Grumps extended universe" doesn't hurt.

Post reads: This new cartoon that didn't exist a week ago has 18 million views in 8 days and my personal way of band wagoning onto this success I had no part in, is to say for every comic clerk who showed up in my comments about how old shit is necessary to stay afloat: also people love new shit. New is good.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 30/04/2026

That's just what a Peter Pan apologist would say. 🤔

Reddit post title from r/PeterPan reads: "No, Peter Pan is not canonically evil (and I'm sick of people saying he is for internet clout)". Thumbnail is a screenshot of Peter Pan's face partially lit by Tinker Bell in an impish grin.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 23/03/2026

The same kinda muscle suit they were hoping to sell to kids for the first movie?

Child wearing Maui brownskin muscle suit, complete with tattoos, leaf skirt, tooth necklace, and full wig

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 28/02/2026

Happy 1 million subscribers to the best show on YouTube

lezbrarian on Tumblr says "to whoever did these captions -- when I catch you!" Three images of Ben Doyle in a gazebo holding a lav mic in his mouth. Captions reads "smacks lips, smooches", "glomps wetly", and "gargles lazily". One of many tags reads "ok fanfic writer ass captions lol".

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 28/02/2026

Short answer: People thought John K was a role model

Screenshot from The Mighty B, with Bessie acting like a biker giving a deliberately gross expression. Caption reads: Why the hell were all the early 2000s cartoon obsessed with this crazy facial expression?

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 14/02/2026

I don't do much art myself these days, but I've long been fascinated by the idea of art popping brighter than it should be able to. It's hard to deny the power of the Shade/Shine layer mode in Paint Tool SAI to get close, out of the box.

A corridor of ambient dark blue, lined with glowing red server towers. A person in blue silhouette, lit by the red from either side, walks up toward a stepped platform, where another person with black silhouette wordlessly rails at the challenger.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 31/01/2026

Small potatoes, but it's funny to think that Alloy (precursor to Defy Media) was in Jeffrey's investment portfolio for a brief period.

Bear Stearns investment activity sheet. Highlighted is 1,500 shares of Alloy Online bought in mid-February 2001.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 24/01/2026

Well okay, Mayor of Flavortown is now looking the Mayor part www.instagram.com/reel/DT0TLQG...

Guy Fieri, except clean shaven, with normal black parted hair, wearing a casual button-up shirt

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 20/01/2026

I remind myself every day that I do it for you! #KeepCaptionsHuman

Jacob stands in front of a corkboard full of pinned YouTube comments

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 17/01/2026

What is it with late-in-life Christian animators and getting their main guys pregnant in consequential two-parters?

From Fairly OddParents: Cosmo lays pregnant and miserably manic in a hospital bed. Wanda, Timmy, and a fairy doctor are bedside.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 02/01/2026

I'm the villain. I'm the leader of the satanic cult. You can tell by my Vegeta-esque widows peak.

A man with massive widows peak stares sternly out of frame.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 31/12/2025

What was your biggest impact on the internet? Most outwardly, wearing a Jet Lag hat and being unable to get out of the way of a camera in time.

Tom Scott, Ella Hubber, and Caroline Roper smile to camera. Jacob stands awkwardly to left of frame behind them.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 21/12/2025

Cybertree: Has hooks meant for ornaments but it can't hold any. Garland slides right off its slick metal ridges. Fit for a Bayformer.

A rough doodle of a Christmas tree with hooked polygonal arms in place of branches

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 12/12/2025

inb4 the next sentence is "Because it's invasive everywhere else"

Two gigantic specimens of Audrey II hover over an overground metro train

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 04/12/2025

Went out for Christmas shopping. I think BoxLunch has a more full-family Bluey option this time around.

Two boxes of Bluey four pack stacking ceramic mugs, includes metal mug holder.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 03/12/2025

Insert yin-yang quip here

Two fried eggs cooking in hibachi. One egg appears to have an inverted white yolk pattern.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 01/12/2025

Sure, yeah, yeah. But he IS a hamster, right?

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 12/11/2025

Did somebody say northern lights?

Red and green aurora behind a row of trees lit by a street light

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 17/10/2025

Do you want the industry answer, the genre answer, the culture answer, the franchise answer, or the streamer answer?

Tweet video of Taunie voicelessly speaking "Look, I'm trying to get our hotel guest to safety. Would you please let us through?" Mizuki comments: I love how she realizes she walks into a crowd of trainers and has no idea what to say lol. These cutscenes are much better than SV's. Quote tweeted by Ashley, commenting: Why do they insist on this style of cutscene if they aren't going to put voice acting?

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 12/10/2025

Thanks to everyone who showed up to Lateral Live today!

Tom Scott and David Bodycombe stand in front of an outdoor queue of spectators

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 13/09/2025

I will say it a thousand times, although the show is known for reusing a lot of its score cues, for those times when they were written as used, it really nailed the double-sided tone super well

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 08/09/2025

When I was linked Dropout's first big round of social media clips with decent full palette captions, I said to myself, "They don't need us" and stayed far away since. So I do appreciate these recent-ish words that were brought to my attention, but do they really need us specifically?

Reddit comment excerpt: "If Tom Scott or any of them know a business name that does them as well as the ones Tom/TechDiff use, then Dropout should definitely seek them out, or if nothing else, consider using their standard as the model!"

"Edit: Description says Accessibility: Jacob Star at Caption Plus.

So if folk at R slash Dropout want a lead, there's one of the best ones both of us can recommend, anyway, and a real (Jacob) Star, no less!"

Reddit post title: "Subtitles getting worse?"

Comment: "Tom Scott works with a service called Caption Plus that has such a good captioning style and does such a perfect job that it makes me extremely excited to see other youtubers use it. LMFAO.

As someone with audio processing issues and whose first language is not English, their work is the gold standard and it would be a dream to see Dropout use their services."

Reddit post: "I beg Dropout to do something about subtitles. In comparison with Nebula, they move the subtitles if there's text on the screen."
Screencap of closed captions reading "Suspenseful music, letters trill" over top of a lower third name graphic.
Comment reads: "Tom Scott uses Caption Plus, which is pretty much gold standard."

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 25/08/2025

Unsettling. But also that half a second on 4G when it just randomly decides to start at Null Island.

Satellite view of the Atlantic Ocean west of central Africa

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 22/08/2025

Creative interpretation of "inflation"

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 17/08/2025

The way it's meant to be sung

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 13/08/2025

To be clear, the straight shot is 20 minutes by car, but 6 hours walking, while more closely following the tracks is 45 minutes by car and 10 hours walking. And part of it's a hiking trail now, but that had to be fairly rugged terrain for the train to be built through in the first place.

Directions map from Otiria to Okaihau via SH 1: 6 hours 15 minutes walking over 16.9 km.

Directions map from Otiria to Okaihau via Ngapuhi on Ngapipito Road: 10 hours 9 minutes walking over 44.4 km.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 24/07/2025

Bulky! Boring! You don't want bulky or boring for Tech Dif!

Four stacked caption lines of different colors: "But because it is there!"

Caption in light gray reads: (all in unison) But because it is there!

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 24/07/2025

We get comments whenever I do these rare gimmick captions like, "didn't need to go that far". But in fact, you know what the alternative is?

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 19/07/2025

Throwback to this lil edit inspired by a @puccanoodles.bsky.social tweet

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 16/07/2025

Lex Luthor as he gets someone else to reach the end before disposing of them:

From IRememberThatShit on Instagram: If you ever beat "The Lion King" for Sega Genesis, you should get a permanent tax break.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 20/06/2025

There's been plenty of attempts and musings to update "We Didn't Start the Fire" with these sort of reminders, but sometimes I just wanna listen to this on loop and retreat into the night.

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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 15/06/2025

coward makes this hot take on twitter