TIME magazine revealed the contents of its latest issue, which focuses on the pioneering history of virtual reality technology and the modern advances currently in-progress from companies like Oculus. However, what almost everyone with an Internet connection is talking about isn’t the issue’s content, per se, but its cover:
TIME’s new cover: Virtual Reality. Why it’s about to change the world https://t.co/1nbXSsF36w
— TIME.com (@TIME) August 6, 2015
Many weren’t pleased:
That TIME cover is just upholding a long VR tradition of making people look like doofuses for no reason. pic.twitter.com/5SdbJYKDB7
— Chris Person (@Papapishu) August 6, 2015
As soon as they recognized the discontent, The Daily Dot tweeted out a cropped photo of the cover’s VR dude and issued a challenge. “Make your own custom TIME VR cover photo and tweet it at us,” they said. “The worse you are at Photoshop, the better.”
Make your own custom @TIME VR cover photo and tweet it at us. The worse you are at Photoshop, the better. pic.twitter.com/QPl0VuOtSK
— The Daily Dot (@dailydot) August 6, 2015
The results are amazing, as is to be expected:
Hey, @Time. You know what would have been better for your VR cover? LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE pic.twitter.com/6mbZ76BkUS
— CasealUnit (@RevolverUnit) August 6, 2015
Time irresponsibly created a terrible story and cover for VR, but the response has been totally internet. pic.twitter.com/vzHLUzJwfn
— Mike Mika (@MikeJMika) August 6, 2015
The @TIME cover with Palmer Luckey is amazing and really, really odd. So we photochopped it: http://t.co/EnvsNqnJ7V pic.twitter.com/KuZqywjasg
— Jessica L. Conditt (@JessConditt) August 6, 2015
[h/t The Daily Dot, Engadget]
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