The Top 20 Cracked Articles Of 2017

We've gathered our 20 top articles of 2017 so you can catch up.
The Top 20 Cracked Articles Of 2017

Well there's another year we'll never get back. For what it's worth, we spent that whole year making the best stuff we possibly could, and millions of you read it! We've gathered our 20 top articles of 2017 so you can catch up. And if you want us to keep making stuff like this, become a subscriber and get rid of the ads and generally help us keep doing what we're doing!

Why The Internet Is About To Change For The Worse

The Top 20 Cracked Articles Of 2017

By David Wong

Maybe the most important underreported story of the year, if you like using the internet at all. No, this isn't about Net Neutrality -- it's an unrelated but equally bad and stupid problem. A digital media crash is wiping out publications left and right. It's one reason we're offering paid subscriptions for an ad-free experience and other bonus stuff, while other sites are trying everything from paywalls to Wikipedia-style fundraisers.

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7 Hilarious Ways Reality Would Ruin Famous Movie Scenes

The Top 20 Cracked Articles Of 2017
Walt Disney Pictures

By JM McNab

We'll just quote this bit about The Little Mermaid:

"Based on what we know about other marine mammals, the only way mermaids could survive would be to have lots of blubber, hair, or both. These mammals would also have short appendages to reduce blood flow, meaning Ariel would quite literally be a hairy or obese mermaid with stubby arms, perhaps resembling something not unlike a demented walrus-potato-wig."

Read the rest!

If You Thought 'Game Of Thrones' Felt Off, You're Not Wrong

The Top 20 Cracked Articles Of 2017
HBO

By Chris Bucholz

This last season is when the series' two polar halves -- gritty realism and wondrous fantasy -- clashed in a way that, well, wasn't good. In a story that prided itself on subverting tropes and killing heroes, we're suddenly staring down the road toward what appears to be a very conventional climax. This is what happens when you don't meet your deadlines, George!

Chris Bucholz walks us through it.

7 Concepts We Totally Take For Granted, Like 'White People'

OE TEEN-AGE GIRLS THEY LIVE IN A WONDERFUL WORLD OF THEIR OWN
Life Magazine

By Nathan Kamal and Jordan Breeding

Did you know that "teenager" as a stage of life was invented around World War II? Seriously, nobody used the word before that. Did you know that nobody went to the beach for fun until the 18th century? It turns out that lots of fundamental elements of everyday life were just pulled out of somebody's ass, and fairly recently.

Stuff all of this shit right into your read-holes.

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