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Reddit Virtual Community Rallies to Repair Photo of Fellow Redditor’s Reportedly Deceased Brother & Fiancé

‘A fascinating and heartwarming phenomenon, via New World Notes. I don’t agree with Wagner James Au’s conclusion that this showcases the power of a pseudomynous internet - it happened despite that, not because of it - but it certainly shows the selfless side to this web of ours.’

The two versions of the photo below are a great testament to the power of virtual community and user-generated content, and I’ll tell you why:

Reddit community photoshop project

The photo on the left is the original, and was posted last weekend by a member of Reddit. “My brother and his fiance died in a car crash a few months ago,” he wrote, “and I just ran across this picture of them on the first day they met. It would be really cool if someone could try to restore it, so I could have it printed.”

More than one person tried to restore it — perhaps several dozen Redditors did so, putting what was probably hundreds of total hours into the effort with Photoshop and other post-processing tools. To judge by the quality of the output, many of them are almost certainly graphic artists and other professionals. Above right is the submission by “colacube”, whose submission garnered the most karma points from other Redditors. (But there are many more submissions of roughly equal quality.)

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Dys4ia ‘Play it. Link via The Border House:’ Dys4ia is the story of the last six months of my life: when I made the decision to start hormone replacement therapy and began taking oestrogen. I wanted to catalogue all the frustrations of the experience and maybe create an “it gets better” for other trans women. When I started working on the game, though, i didn’t know whether it did get better. I was in the middle of [..] level 3 of the game, and at the time I had no idea what the ending would be; it was hard to envision a happy ending.

Dys4ia

‘Play it. Link via The Border House:’

Dys4ia is the story of the last six months of my life: when I made the decision to start hormone replacement therapy and began taking oestrogen. I wanted to catalogue all the frustrations of the experience and maybe create an “it gets better” for other trans women. When I started working on the game, though, i didn’t know whether it did get better. I was in the middle of [..] level 3 of the game, and at the time I had no idea what the ending would be; it was hard to envision a happy ending.

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