TIME’s New Virtual Reality-Themed Cover Is The Laughingstock of the Internet

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]
[Image via Twitter]

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