User:Carlinal/Favorite recognized content

Easily my biggest section, because I love music so much and I love reading about how the authors produce them. A self-reminder to separate these into three groups; artist, albums and songs, with topics placed where appropriate.

• Album era (What a history lesson. It's like a brief overview of the history of popular music in contemporary history. So many parallels are reflected in what influenced the album format in its past, present, and future.)
• Blonde on Blonde (topic) (Bob Dylan's magnum opus. No, not Highway 61, we're talking about advancements in sound. Also holds the current record as the highest rated album on Acclaimed Music with a good topic.)
• The Rolling Stones (They inspired all of us to run, yet they flew before any of us, and flew high for over 60 fucking years.)
• Aftermath (by the Rolling Stones)
• "Paint It Black"
• Radiohead
• Radiohead studio albums (topic) (YES YES YES YES YES)
• "True Love Waits" (Perhaps the most difficult song Radiohead encountered, not just for making it a fitting album track, but the intensified weight it garnered from age and the emotionally stressful Moon Shaped Pool sessions. And yet in its final form it's one of the best songs in their history. It's like a mythical character referenced across several arcs that suddenly decided to appear center-stage.)
• Led Zeppelin III
• Who's Next (I love this album. Love love love love love it so much I really wished it was a double album with the other half of songs that had to be cut. I love the Lifehouse concept even more, but its songs are much more powerful when rendered individually, like what we got with Who's Next. "Time Is Passing", "I Don't Even Know Myself", "Naked Eye", "Too Much of Anything" and "Pure and Easy" are incredible, absolutely incredible, and they should've been as popular as "Baba O'Riley", "Won't Get Fooled Again" and the like. Even so, this album, alongside Led Zeppelin IV and Exile on Main St., comprise a trinity of first-wave hard rock where all the songs were tightly arranged classics while holding both emotional resonance and, shockingly, spiritual weight. This trinity has religious influences heard within the walls, and Who's Next, especially Lifehouse, is the most spiritual of them all. This near-exact form of rock music is priceless and was always really hard to come by, even if it's not as popular anymore.)
• Kanye West studio albums (topic) (Novel of this absolute genius savage of a man. I initially read one chapter, then read like two, then five. Eventually I bought the whole thing.)
  • Late Registration (topic) (YES!!! MY FAVORITE KANYE ALBUM)
  • Yeezus (topic) (THIS SHIT TOO?!?! GODDAMN THEY MAD COOKIN'! I SWEAR TO GOD LET THE MBDTF TOPIC HAPPEN)
• "Good Morning" (Kanye West) (Perfectly simple intro for a deliberately underdeveloped album. But most importantly, the video is tear-jerkingly beautiful.)
• "Lift Yourself" (Like "I Love Kanye" but extraaaaa)
• Kind of Blue (It's the best for a reason, come on.)
• Agharta (blowing through the fucking wall)
• Nirvana studio albums (topic)
• London Calling (Certainly should not be your first punk rock album (hell, their debut is more appropriate), but this one is still the pinnacle demonstration of what punk music can be. Every song here gets better with every listen, as the words and grooves here are impeccable. London Calling provides a textbook example of what great pop and rock music should be, showing appreciation for accessibility while pushing the envelope a little and showing guts not always in talent, but personality.)
• "Touch Me I'm Sick" (My kind of pop.)
• Ramones
• The Velvet Underground & Nico
• The Dark Side of the Moon (What really got me into music. Albums, especially.)
• Daft Punk studio albums (topic) (tha evolution of tha nu-funk)
• "What'd I Say" (Bringing up the birth of soul!)
• Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Cowboy Carter before Cowboy Carter. Saw both volumes available at my local record store filed separately, but it's with best respect you listen to both as they are one. Had to buy both to honor my Georgia roots, as with Stankonia.)
• Horses
• Marquee Moon
• Is This It
• There's a Riot Goin' On
• Loveless
• Rumours (I admit this was a fine read. Rumours is a very infamous album, and it felt a little rude, even by my standards, to list this article here. But wow, it's a hell of a success story. And the album's good!)
• Endtroducing.....
• For Emma, Forever Ago (Best proof that Wikipedia can present an academic-level story.)
• The Slim Shady LP
• A Crow Looked at Me
• Radio (by LL Cool J)
• Blur (by Blur) (The White Album if it's post-Britpop. Fantano thinks 13 is better. Eh, I mean 13 gave us the Coffee & TV music video.)
• The Yes Album
• Doggystyle
• Minecraft – Volume Alpha (First album I ever listened to. My mom downloaded "Sweden" for me as it latched onto me as the true theme song of this game like everyone else. Took a while for this album's impact to really grow, but it was always a masterpiece from the start. I'm beyond grateful to know of this work.)
• "Beck's Bolero" (A chaotic and near-romantic masterpiece, exploding shades of the heavy rock era to come. And what an amazing lineup, a supergroup crossing the three or four bands within them.)
• "All Star" (Of course this became a good article...)
• The Black Parade
• "Look at Your Game, Girl"
• AC/DC (went through six FA reviews in a long history, and despite remaining in GA, it's still a very great read. A surprise favorite band for me, especially with Back in Black and Powerage.)
• "Megalovania" (Halloween Hack preserved on Wikipedia for all eternity plus screenshot 😛😛😛😛😛)
• "Lola"
• "Planet Rock"
• "Rock Box"
• Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk
• "Empire State of Mind"
• Alice in Chains (Also known as Tripod, this is the bleakest and most depressing grunge album that ever grunged, which says something given the intense introspection that the Seattle rockers all went through. Calling this sludgy is an understatement; this album sounds like me in April 2021, at the fucking nadir of my depression. I was slow as a snail in molasses and thought I had nothing true to live for. Tripod is not my favorite compared to Dirt and Jar of Flies, but I appreciate its distinct, acoustic-assisted sound and fan-favorite status. I remember being indirectly introduced to Tripod when a user by the name of Dirty Dan did their frequent album reviews on Know Your Meme's Discord server, leading me to learn about both Alice in Chains and Layne Staley. It was an interesting time, and something I'll cherish in retrospect.)
• Killing of Meredith Hunter (As if the concert that ended the 1960s wasn't bad enough, it had to end in a rather vulgar confrontation and death, reflective of all the bad vibes surrounding it. It was just bad-tempered all around. I don't blame the Stones for this or the concert as much as I blame Rock Scully, who suggested recruiting the wrong(?) Hells Angels for this, but wow...everyone writes about bad times but there's the haunting guilt that comes when you indirectly cause them.)
• Disco Demolition Night (I agree that disco had been overtly commercialized and wrongly framed as hedonistic and elitist by 1980, but that night showed a hatred so visceral that shouldn't be given towards any genre, ever. FUCK Legs McNeil, by the way.)

These are in a different format from articles about a product or event, so there. Sorted alphabetically by surname, one-word nicknames and Asian family names included.

• Leelah Alcorn (Kind of inappropriate to list this first, right? Otherwise I didn't really want to explain this one...When listing articles to heavy or controversial subject matter, understand that none of this is out of some edgelord humor or anything superficial, but with genuine interest and respect. I think about Alcorn every now and then because her circumstances spoke a lot to me and her hopelessness is much, much more than relatable. The corruption she refers to and lost the battle against is obvious. Situations like this are why I am so ardently pro-trans and why I firmly draw the line with how people approach religion. Her parents are the real sinners because the hate they displayed has no depth.)
• Ann Bannon (Like her own life, her stories are heartbreaking. Yet Bannon's ended up heartwarming.)
• Allie Brosh (Creator of the first webcomic I remember reading)
• Ted Bundy (Including him and Gacy is a confession to the fascination of morbid subjects, kind of exacerbated by my interests in psychology and mental health, which I'm sure is not uncommon reasoning for a lot of other people. If Bundy's article is popular, at least it's cared for. Again, my listing of such content isn't glorifying crime but as support to research and validate heavy subjects. Inevitably, Jeffery Dahmer's article is the only one left to improve in this smut trinity. Speaking of which, Derf Backderf is one of my favorite graphic novel artists. Go check his stuff out.)
• dril
• Eric Easton (More similar to the Beatles' Brian Epstein than Oldham, but much more obscure and less charismatic. His story is intertwined with the Rolling Stones' early yet sudden rise to fame and fortune, as well as the origins of their financial issues stemming from the lack of a decent enough pop rock manager at the time, all within about two years. A stunning read.)
• Boughera El Ouafi
• Etika (Took the opportunity to study the edit history and reviews of this one. Absolutely joyful for this achievement. First YouTuber to hit FA, even if it's posthumous. Internet history right here. PantheonRadiance nailed both GAN and FAC first try. PR, if you're reading this, I salute you.)
• John Wayne Gacy
• Willis Gibson (He won the biggest fattest possible dub in Tetris history bro, where do you go from there? Kid geniuses, man. His reaction to his (hopefully succeeded) first life achievement is something to behold.)
• George Harrison (Even though Starr is my favorite Beatle, Harrison's contributions are oh-so saintly and groundbreaking. And boy, does he rock.)
• Jeong Haneul (North Korean defectors. You can't not pity them.)
• Margaret Ursula Jones
• Kendrick Lamar (KENNY DOT DUCKY!!!!! KUNG FU KENNY THA GREATEST!!!!!)
• Eugene Landy (Complicated man given a complicated mess.)
• John Lennon (I love and hate this guy. Hate him because he was always a jerkass troublemaker who gave into his impulses. But I love him because no one can write and sing so passionately like him, and was, just as importantly, a secular feminist who tried and fought like hell. He's a New Yorker like his native peers, and a legend for most of all his notes of positivity. //0-0\\)
• Li Rui (I said I'm an anti-communist, but certainly not the pro-capitalist type. I feel for this guy.)
• Travis Ludlow (Airplane prodigy. Not much autobiography, but it's a short and sweet read on his WR achievement.)
• Man of the Hole (Post-WWII example of burying Indigenous communities)
• Paul McCartney (Sometimes critics treat him like Mike Love, and that's understandable from a purist's music career perspective. And then McCartney grew a pair during Flowers in the Dirt and showed some fine steel ever since. Look, let's not put down his softer stuff like "Honey Pie" and "The Girl Is Mine" either, or his completion of "Now and Then". He and Lennon are equals for entirely unique reasons, and they deserve equal respect in totality.)
• PewDiePie (First to reach the heights as a YouTuber. Still keeping it strong.)
• Keanu Reeves (😎x9000+)
• Fred Rogers (He's the kindest man in the world because he wants to encourage us to strive. I can't overstate how much of an idol he is to me. Mister Rogers is so ahead of his time he makes Billy Graham bite the dust.)
• Ringo Starr (First knew about him as the Thomas & Friends narrator before I read about the Beatles in like 6th grade. Plus he was in the same room as Junior Campbell, who was in the band Marmalade as the latter covered "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". Oh, and the drummer thing. Yeah, he's still underrated in that regard just because he can't do a roll. And hates soloing. Starr is as much of a Maharishi saint as Harrison, and both performed at the Concert for Bangladesh. My Father Christmas.)
• Jack Thompson ("activist") (Young gamers never felt true hatred until they heard of Jack Thompson.)
• Molly White (Wikipedians historically have the unfortunate image of a bunch of nerdy nobodies who give no substance in life. Not with Molly. No, this Wikipedian is an absolute chad. You have no power against her.)
• Anna Wintour (Perhaps the Harlan Ellison of fashion. Also her knowledge of music publications is as good as Madonna's knowledge in filmmaking. Bless her heart.)

(Will add comics and graphic novel articles soon)

• The Cat in the Hat (Probably the greatest children's book ever. Still stands very high today.)
• Shrek! (Yeah, there's a book! I want to check that out someday.)
• A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
• Stellaluna
• What If?
• Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection
• Harry Potter novels (topic)
• Maya Angelou's autobiographical series (topic) (ALL of these are at FA, which I assume took about twice as an effort to get to as the Harry Potter topic. Insane.)
• The Great Gatsby (First listed novel with a Wikisource of it 😜)
• The Adventures of Tintin (topic?) (All 24 comic albums are at GA, with the magnum opus Tintin in Tibet at FA, but there's no proper topic tying all of these together into its own book. Listing here out of both admiration for the series and frustration that there isn't a stupid topic proper yet.)

• History (Jesus Mary and Joseph, this show. How ambitious the Simpsons project is, it's beyond insane.)
• Simpson family (topic)
• Season 5 (topic)
• Season 6 (topic) (The very very funny one)
• Season 7 (topic) (If anyone asks which season best defines The Simpsons, you point to this. A perfect balance between the powerhouse writing of the Mirkin years with the emotional back-to-basics of the Jean and Reiss years, while adding healthy experimentalism by Oakley and Weinstein. It was The Simpsons that convinced me a television season could have depth akin to a studio album. Every last episode was firing on all cylinders.)
• Season 8 (topic) (One of the most avant-garde seasons in the history of televised comedy. My personal favorite because I watch in awe at how many limits were pushed here. It's too ambitious to deserve any subsequent season, honestly.)
• The Simpsons: Hit & Run

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• The spongeboy himself (Really good vector art)
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Pearl Krabs
• Plankton and Karen
• Mrs. Puff (The only thing left is Sandy Cheeks and the main page for all this to become a topic. I pine for that. SpongeBob has the most unique cartoon cast I have ever seen, and to this day, this show is unmatched in creativity.)
• Krusty Krab (Has a 4.1 on Kelp, resulting from disappointed fish who were fans of the Krusty Krab Pizza.)
• Season 1
• Season 2
• Season 3
• The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie
• Season 4
• Season 9 to 12...?

• Super Mario Bros.
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Super Mario World
• Donkey Kong Country
• Yoshi's Island
• Super Mario 64
• Yoshi's Island DS
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Super Mario RPG (Geno walked so Cloud could run.)
• Paper Mario series (topic) (listed this with NeatCrown in mind.)

• Water Temple (Ocarina of Time) (GRRRRR)

• Green Hill Zone
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Sonic X-treme
• Sega
• Sega Technical Institute
• Sonic After the Sequel
• Somari
• Sonic Dreams Collection (0__0)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (film) (tha greatest bideo gayme moobie evar)

• List of major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments (What an era. How nostalgic I am for this one. I received a copy of this game back when I believed in half-birthdays. I remember getting into Smash and seeing the fans associated with it. Alpharad, Ninkendo, Etika, Ludvix, Heeew, AsumSaus...even if it's not the best title in the series, it's undoubtedly very kickass.)
• List of major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments (The first few months post-release were so optimistic, retrospectively. Then Etika's suicide left a slightly bigger hole as I wondered who would be the next fighter or Mii costume to come aboard. Even as I'm now an ex-Nintendo fan, I'll always have a bit of respect for Sakurai and the two greatest franchises he gave us.)

• The Beatles' 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines (A turning point representing the Beatles at their most controversial, and the end of the first phase of Beatlemania. As the only Beatles tour article to be recognized content, I keep coming back to this one. But it was also very, very interesting. I feel bad for the Fab Four here!)
• The Beatles in India (If the Maharishi had a final trial to prove his influence, this presented a pass with flying colors. A significant event in both the tail end of psychedelic optimism and the cynical revolutions that's been rising for the past four years and onward.)
• Revolver (by the Beatles) (Still needs more Beatles articles at GA. This album deserves FA.)
• The Beatles
• "A Day in the Life"
• "Strawberry Fields Forever"
• "Hey Jude"
• "Revolution" (by the Beatles) (The cultural responses section best outlines how the '60s counterculture not only disbanded, but grew more outdated today.)
• "Rain" (by the Beatles)
• "The Inner Light"
• The Beatles: Rock Band
• Seltaeb (Shameful business problems...and you thought Easton had it bad! Damn. Well, the Beatles had firsts for almost everything, so it's unsurprising they made a lot of financial mistakes, with and without Epstein.)

• All Summer Long (ILIL being Wikipedia's signature Beach Boys fan, their edits aren't as much compared to that on Pet Sounds or Smiley Smile, but damn, they're no less impressive! Seriously impressive! Compared to the last few times I read this, the quality exploded out of nowhere! And a whole GA whose references are almost entirely composed of books. Going through so many literary sources, that takes guts compared to an article more reliant on web articles and pages. This is the kind of article only a real hardcore music fan can conjure up into beauty. I'm beyond surprised by its amount of depth. Love reading this. Thank you, lovely painter.)
• Smiley Smile
• Wild Honey
• Lei'd in Hawaii
• Carl and the Passions – "So Tough"
• "Good Vibrations" (My favorite song. I have so much to explain why because of how impactful it was to me, both in my personal life and my interests in music, including deciding to take on a career as a musician.)
• "Never Learn Not to Love"
• Brian Wilson is a genius
• Don't fuck with the formula (A little sad this got merged. The impact section is my biggest argument for why it should remain independent from the Smile article. Even for the sixties, this is Mike "Niggers Don't Invent Guitars" Love I'm speaking of.)
• Elephant 6 (The collective has at least a fifth of the overall influence in the foundations of indie rock. Otherwise, they're the Beach Boys' greatest fans.)

Pure Internet shenanigans. Some of these are probably more appropriate in other categories, but this section collects a pure, viral spirit. Sorted chronologically.

• Internet meme (we did it boys, racism is no more)
• The Million Dollar Homepage
• SCP Foundation
• Loss (comic)
• Joe Biden (The Onion)
• Slender Man
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom (Man, did this cause a big bang of a rebirth for all furrykind. More than I think even fyre-flye herself would be willing to acknowledge.)
• 2b2t ("The oldest anarchy server in Minecraft")
• Doge (meme)
• The dress
• r/place
• Bowsette (The greatest waifu ever. If THIS is a Good Article, then...)
• The Backrooms
• Storm Area 51
• Femboy (Went from a redirect to passing GAN in less than a month, as a post-New Year's celebration. Imma be the first femboy rockstar, not counting David Bowie...or Prince...or Bon Scott...or Mick Jagger...the first modern, punk, non-soft grunge, femboy rockstar, wielding a Monster Energy-themed Gibson SG, I mean. Just you wait. We rise.)
• Josh fight

• Lolicon (Seeing that little green button in this article made me laugh my ass off. I'm amazed this finally got to GA status despite it being the most infamous animanga-related genre in the West. And it's nominated by Fredrick Brennan, no less! Pleased this contentious issue is given quality dedication. The only thing left in this category is getting shotacon to GA.)
• Yuri (genre) (Remembering Nobuko Yoshiya, I'm sad that nowadays, yuri is mostly a fanservice thing in anime.)
• Yaoi (Gay ultra-feminine men)
• Bara (genre) (Gay ultra-masculine men)
• Gengoroh Tagame (Art historian on gay stuff and the King of Bara)
• Sex (book) (OMG, it's da sex book!!!!!!11!!!!!!111! Jokes aside, this is a very progressive read. Best coffee table book ever. I don't care if it's out of print, I'm going to snag myself a copy.)
• Fucking Trans Women (TAKE NOTE ON MUFFING.)

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (The third reason why I wanted to get into animation. I saw this at around 11:20 P.M. on March 7, 2024, over five years after its release, but the wait is beyond worth it. It's the most beautiful animation I have ever seen. I was so hyped before seeing it over the fact that it was THE Big Bang for today's theatrical animation, and perhaps for every field of animation altogether. It's not just an S-tier masterpiece. It's the only film that gives The Dark Knight a run for its money as the greatest superhero film ever made. If you love anything, comics, animation, superheroes, even animanga, you MUST see this. I don't think I'll ever have as intense of a first reaction as I did for a long, long time.)
• Back to the Future (It took Into the Spider-Verse to top this one, but it's still an awesome film. Go figure it reached the front page.)
• The Dark Knight
• Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings (My mom watched the trilogy with me in a 3-day run just before Netflix expired them. Even if I watched the films before the books, I understand the differences between the two mediums, and I love the film trilogy for what it is. It's now impossible to adapt the books this well. I also want to note how not only is this arguably the greatest film adaptation since, say, The Grapes of Wrath, but it successfully captured the books' ambitions and adventures and opened up a new world of 21st century film. Harry Potter, the MCU and The Hunger Games would probably not be as successful if Peter Jackson didn't nail this one on the forehead. Watching the just as successful Dune: Part One 20 years after The Fellowship of the Ring made me reflect again on this.)
• Shrek
• Paint Drying (A funny story. As the article was frontpaged some users were baffled at the lack of a screenshot of the film for illustration, so some used an unrelated image of a white-painted wall despite it not being from the film itself. Others decided to add an official screenshot of the film for authenticity, while putting it under fair use since there's no proof of a CC license from the film's sole author, Charlie Shackleton. Some called bull on that and some back-and-forth ensued until Shackleton, as DisorderlyHouse, came in and gave a ticket for a CC screenshot of his film. Not sure how he came to know about this article. Maybe a friend notified him or he came to Wikipedia's front page that day. Regardless, it's interesting how on occasion certain FAs are incomplete until after it gets frontpaged. I laud Shackleton's efforts anyhow and hopefully the bbfc can have a better source of income so they wouldn't enforce heavy charges on filmmakers.)
• Parasite (2019) (Masterpiece. Best South Korean film ever. Also capitalism and Far Eastern societies fucking suck. Now see Portrait of a Lady on Fire.)
• Pulgasari (NeatCrown and I saw this together. It was okay. Sound quality was shit, and Pulgasari appeared too little. Initial scenes with the monster were pretty campy. Story was good though. Best thing by far is that it's not a propaganda film.)
• Daicon III and IV Opening Animations (Arguably the starting point for modern animanga)
• "Ozymandias" (It's amazing that the show's most critically acclaimed episode is also the most popular. Usually, critical consensus differs significantly from audience reception. Walter White's collapse being a giant meme adds considerably to the episode's legacy, dark-humored as it is.)
• "Granite State" (The really, really sad aftermath.)
• The Amazing Digital Circus (NeatCrown made me a Gooseworx fan for good. Loved every episode and binged the subreddits ever since.)
• Jane Eyre (1910) (First English adaptation of my favorite novel, and it's lost too. I hate the silent film industry because of how much gold and history is lost...and it isn't even ancient history. More like semi-advanced history.)
• Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial (Post-credits scene of the Soviet Union. Hail Gorbachev!)
• Don't Be a Sucker
• Dazed and Confused (I've seen many high school graduation-type films, such as American Graffiti, Sixteen Candles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and even felt some of Animal House here. But this is the best one of them all. It's got the right balance of edge, realism and humanity. None of the other films I mentioned felt as relatable. Especially for a mid-1970s story with a bit of a 1990s lens, in my opinion. That's exactly why it works, because the 1990s went back to retrieve some of the openness of the 1970s with a cynical honesty.)
• Characters from The Mandalorian (topic) (One of the greatest and perhaps funniest casting choices of any show you'll see in recent years. This is pure Favreau, combining rising sexy stars with previous collaborators and hilariously unusual yet successful choices. Happy Hogan is awesome.)
• Groundhog Day (First time viewing put me in tears and provided one of the most cathartic endings in film history. Bill Murray's most essential work ever.)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
• Substitute Teacher (Key & Peele) (When I was a kid my dad showed me this sketch as it blew up on YouTube. It's hilarious enough even without realizing the racial context, which I was too young to know about then. Man, name a better introduction to those two guys, Key especially. Peele is awesome too.)

• Citrus (Objectively the best in the fruit business.)
• Orange (fruit) (Second favorite, after the watermelon. I don't like the juice because of the tang and pulp, but I love peeling a seedless orange and chewing on the carpels; they're like flavored sacs of water. As for my third favorite fruit...)
• Banana (Orange you glad I didn't say erect berries? Oh wait, I said it anyway...)
• Mandarin orange (Them cutie-patooies :3)
• Bitter orange (😡)
• Grapefruit (Mexican drug cartel orange)
• Pomelo (Chinese New Year orange)
• Marmalade (MARMALADE SANDWICHES 😋😋😋)
• Apple (pine ringo crab pen long island sand condom)
• Lemon (Stupid lemons...LEMONS?!?!?!)
• Potato (potahto)
• Tomato (tomahto)
• Bacon Explosion
• Baconnaise
• BLT
• Fool's Gold Loaf
• Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• Fluffernutter (or, the nut and cream sandwich 😉😉)
• Capitol Hill mystery soda machine (we drink to dis)

Not like we couldn't talk about ourselves, but no one said we shouldn't, heh...but only if others bother to talk about us enough. (Sorted somewhat chronologically.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• Essjay controversy (Oof. We had 10+ grueling yet somewhat astounding years of growth since this incident to have a new reputation. Shame this is far from the first to happen, but at least we're in a much different place now.)
• Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax (Esse pessoa conhece Chico Buarque? kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk)
• LGBTQ and Wikipedia (Yah we exist bro)
• Alan MacMasters hoax (Fake vintage image of a chad who invented the toaster? Well it was funny but it lasted eight years too long.)
• Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy (Bolsonaro took a look at the Heritage Foundation's editing "efforts" and thought "hmmm what if")
• Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic (Wikipedia at the peak of its influence. Hell of a foglight heading towards an unknown future, and just as the website was showing balls of steel. These efforts wowed me and contributed somewhat to my joining as a member. I don't have the pandemic era as reasoning alone, but as an example of the reasons I have, and still do.)

• Orange (word) (Also my second favorite color. Sorry for the snubs, orange. Perhaps not a coincidence that orange is the opposite of my number one blue.)
• Pizzagate conspiracy theory (FAQ rocks my socks off)
• Jack the Ripper
• List of Naruto characters (topic)
• Lists of Naruto volumes (topic)
• Naruto (I'm disappointed at how few images there are here.)
• Uzumaki
• Community Notes (twitter's attempt at a Wikipedia clone. Mostly backfired.)
• "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"
• "Death Has a Shadow" (1998 pilot here!!!)
• It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• Murder of Dwayne Jones
• Terminology of transgender anatomy
• 2001 (A beyond-defining event for the decade, both culturally and tragically.)
• 2002 (The year after 9/11. For everyone, especially Americans, there was a feeling defined by five words: "What do we do now?")
• 2003 (My birth year.)
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Everyone's "favorite" mental disorder. Uh-uh, fuck that.)
• Me at the zoo (The first YouTube video.)
• YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind (The worst YouTube video. Still is. Still deserves that dislikes record. It's not the most grotesque in content, but its commercial soullessness was so major it signaled the death knell for what was once a genuinely great website in itself. That video was the epilogue to the Adpocalypse of 2016–2017, and the culmination of YouTube's corporate direction that started with YouTube Kids or Google+, or even when Google bought the website at all, back in late 2006. Sheesh. Never go corporate if you care about the Internet.)
• List of London Monopoly locations (topic) (Well I'll be. Mr. Ritchie here loves England that much, eh? Not a bad topic by design, ultimately. While initially weird of a selection to band together otherwise, Monopoly's original edition is a mini-tour of London as of the 20th century. In other words, this board game indirectly brought British imperialism to the medium of board games.)
• Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station (I'm sorry but a French radio station having a hissy fit with Wikipedians and then the Streisand effect happened I CAN'T)

Hundreds more articles are B or C-class, yet their subjects are fascinating. Wonder what I could do with them...