Here's the thing. I like to behave badly on the Internet. I get that this is the age of the new transparency, and it's all eventually going to come back to bite me, but in the meantime I'm going to 'shop like there's no tomorrow. Please don't rat me out to my Facebook friends.

-----Photoplasty Rankings (Yes, I am just that anal)-----
2011
5-15 - Board Games Too Awesome to Exist - #3
5-18 - Unauthorized Product Uses - #5 & #2
5-24 - If Movies Were Realistic - #4
6-5 - How We'll Really Use Cloning Technology - #20
6-12 - If Every Job Came With Bond Gadgets - #21
6-15 - Great Movies From the Perspective of Minor Characters - #4
6-18 - If Theme Parks Just Didn’t Give a F#@k - #3
6-25 - If Everything in Life Listed the Side Effects - #15
7-1 - Internet Memes: Where Are They Now? - #2
7-8 - If The Modern World Ran On Medieval Technology - #2
7-20 - Video Games from the Villain's Point of View - #4
7-23 - If You Really Didn't Care What Your Co-Workers Thought - #5 & #2
7-30 - Creative Ways to Teach Children Harsh Life Lessons - #2
8-17 - Unseen Drawbacks to Living in an Action Movie - #2
8-21 - If Everything Operated on Rube Goldberg Logic - #17
8-24 - 16 Lessons You Wish They'd Taught in School - #1!
8-27 - Ill-Advised Movie Merchandise for Kids - #2
9-1 - If You Could Photoshop the Real World - #2
9-14 - Creative Ways to Use Obsolete Technologies - #2
9-21 - Things We Secretly Suspect About the Opposite Sex - #17 & #1!
9-24 - Figures of Speech As Understood By a Five Year Old - #6
9-25 - Arts and Crafts Projects of Dangerous Psychopaths - #2
10-1 - If Everything Got an Adorable Mascot - #2
10-2 - Awkward Moments that Must Have Happened - #2
10-5 - Instructional Signs that Must Exist in Movie Universes - #11 & #14
10-13 - R-Rated Versions of Classic Disney Movies - #16
10-16 - If the Hero's Timing Had Been Slightly Off - #9
10-19 - Great Movies from the Villain's Point of View - #26 & #6
10-21 - Things Old People Suspect About Modern Culture - #12 & #4
10-26 - If Online Ads Told the Truth - #9
10-29 - Famous Characters in their Halloween Costumes - #20
10-30 - How Five-year-olds Would Fix the World's Problems - #4
11-2 - Ads for Products that Must Exist in Video Games - #26, #6, #5
11-6 - Famous Images as Seen with X-Ray Vision - #17, #11
11-9 - If Everyday Life Had a Heads-up Display - #19
11-11 - Awful Comedy Premises We'll Probably See Next - #5
11-16 - If Error Messages Had a Sense of Humor - #31, #2
11-18 - What Video Game Characters Do in their Downtime - #19, #7
11-19 - If History Was Written By the Losers - #19
12-2 - Misconceptions about Today from Future History Classes - #2
12-4 - If Real Life Had Video Game Glitches and Cheats - #2
12-7 - Conspiracies Behind Everyday Annoyances - #8
12-11 - Clumsily Censored Versions of Famous R-Rated Images - #6
12-28 - Most Viral Photos of the Next 12 Months - #12

2012
1-4 - Internet Memes That Will Baffle Future Historians - #2
1-14 - Great Characters Improved by Jumping to Other Movies - #5
1-15 - If Politicians Ran on Issues the Internet Cared About - #3, #2
1-20 - Popular Websites (10 Years from Now) - #4, #3
1-29 - Classic Movies Remade as Lighthearted Romantic Comedies - #13
2-1 - Things You Never Noticed in Famous Video Games - #20
2-8 - Famous Paintings (with the Dialog Included) - #1
2-13 - Painfully Honest Valentine Cards - #10
2-15 - If the News Were Forced to Tell the Truth - #18
2-17 - When Video Game Characters Finally Snap - #27
2-20 - If Tattoos Could Talk - #2
3-3 - Famous Photos (One Minute Earlier) - #2
3-4 - Pop Culture from Fictional Universes - #3
3-19 - If Movie Posters Were Sarcastic - #2
4-18 - Creative Processes of Famous Filmmakers, Charted - #6
5-5 - Everyday Life as Misunderstood by Politicians - #3
5-11 - If Mother's Day Cards Were Honest - #4
5-14 - Small Changes that Would Have Fixed Horrible Movies - #6

----- Quotes -----

The "fruit from a car chase fruit stand" entry is maybe my favorite idea for an entry of all time. But the way it was photoshopped, with one single tire track going across the plate full of food, confused half of the people we showed it to. They thought the joke was that a car had driven across the table at the restaurant, which obviously would make no sense.

We're usually pretty lax when it comes to the quality of a shop, we don't disqualify winners because they've done an imperfect job of blending or whatever. But when there is something about the image that makes it hard to get the joke, that's what makes it hard for us to declare it the winner.

Also, remember that the rest of the list outside of the winner is not listed in order of quality. The first one shown (and the "last" runner-up) is, for instance, not our least favorite on the list. It's the one we thought would make the best first impression on the reader, and the one that does the best job of making it clear what the premise is to somebody just browsing the contest who might not be totally clear based on the title.
--David Wong

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I think, therefore I AM.
--Mad Mann

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Auntie Meme receives the highest award known to immature man, Dancing Godzilla!
--RobHatesZombies

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