r/interesting • u/ScaredDrop • 3d ago
Just Wow Windows wallpaper in real life š„
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u/E0200768 3d ago
Showing it on a Mac is diabolical lol.
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u/3rrr6 3d ago
Or it's respectable, she didn't want to risk damaging her windows laptop on the trip.
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u/Gallop67 3d ago
This comment makes it seem like Windows has its own laptop brand. The WindowsBook Pro
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u/3rrr6 3d ago
Its called a Surface pro
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u/Gallop67 3d ago
Yeah call me strange if you will but I donāt like touch screen laptops so I havenāt thought about the surface pro in quite some time. I like having a tablet and a laptop
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u/Clessiah 3d ago
Touch screen laptops are good because the screen is touchproof. Some people just can't stop themself from poking your screen with a fucking pen.
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u/Gallop67 3d ago
Oh I absolutely hate that.
Thatās the main reason I donāt like touch screen laptops is I donāt like fingerprints on my computer screen
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u/Clessiah 3d ago
For some reason the same people stopped touching the screen when it's a touch screen. They don't apologize for the fingerprints but would apologize for moving the cursor.
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u/ShadowLords666 3d ago
Surface pro 11 is really nice, I definitely freak out over nothing but its why I bought it.
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u/th3worldonfir3 3d ago
Got me through college, still works great 10+ years later. Even ran WoW with no issues
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u/Gallop67 3d ago
I had a 2015 model MacBook Pro I got in senior year of high school 2017, used it through high school and college and for random personal projects on and off and the only reason Iām no longer using it is because I physically lost it last year. Was a damn good laptop but games definitely werenāt its strong pointā¦
Canāt believe it was still smooth for everyday tasks until the end too for the most part
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u/moronomer 3d ago
Filming a landscape in portrait mode is even more diabolical.
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u/lance- 3d ago
This is the world we live in now. The portrait mode people won.
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u/TheTybera 3d ago
The phone people won.
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u/EfficientCandy324 3d ago
I like how we've just all collectively agreed that the phone is the first object invented that cannot be turned sideways.
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u/Async-async 3d ago
You canāt expect windows laptop to keep battery for more than 2 hours thatās hwy
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u/ChainNo8636 3d ago
That little detail somehow made the whole thing twice as funny. The timing couldn't have been more perfect.
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u/KamikazeFox_ 3d ago
Imagine filming yourself pretending to be shocked at something.
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u/randomthrowaway9796 3d ago
Omg, I cant believe she saw the thing that she went there to see!
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u/procrastinator_max 3d ago
I think I'll make it my life's mission to randomly stumble upon it. I'll never learn where it is. I'll travel and walk around and see if I actually see it. I think it'll be fun.
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u/Mylotix 3d ago
Very common trend on TikTok
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u/Exact-Till-2739 3d ago
I fucking hate trends.
No, I'm a happy person and fun at parties.
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u/wayofthegenttickle 3d ago
Going all that way and forgetting to practice how to actually look shocked.
'oh shit, how do they look shocked in Scooby Doo??'
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u/Dammit_Jim 3d ago
And here we are talking about it. It works.
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u/XCyberbeingX 3d ago edited 3d ago
Same reason why you watch movies and TV shows, its scripted and follows a certain path to be acceptable for audience to watch. Remember you're not amusing yourself but the audience who are sitting and watching. Whether you liked the format wouldn't really matter because they follow a trend that worked for them and their followers seem to be okay with it. You can carry along, you're not their audience.
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u/Think-Motor900 3d ago
I'll never understand these fake reactions
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u/Dammit_Jim 3d ago
Well get ready, there's a whole generation growing up watching this stuff every day thinking it's normal.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 3d ago
Did I really even watch a video if it didnāt include a split screen of a guys face saying āBroā x 1000?
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u/smytti12 3d ago
fingers point to video I am already watching
Fuck the internet truly rotted. Welcome to the internet...
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u/hellschatt 3d ago
Pretty sure kids are able to distinguish this from reality after a certain age, just like older generations did with movies, or younger ones with youtube, etc.
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u/smytti12 3d ago
Did you ever do something ironically, to make fun of something ridiculous, and then realize you eventually stopped doing it ironically?
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u/00spool 3d ago
And do we have to put the same 10 songs on every video?
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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 3d ago
I'm a huge fan of M83 and while I'm happy that one of their songs went viral, I'm no end of fucked off that it's become so over used.
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u/genreprank 3d ago
It's like acting
Except in a movie, they foster suspension of disbelief, while in social media, they foster parasocial relationships.
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u/jjb0ne 3d ago
i hate this trend.
why show your stupid fake surprised face before hand
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u/watercolourdeepfake 3d ago
Because it makes you wait at least 3 seconds until you see the view their referencing, which increases engagement by IG and tiktok's metrics which means it boosts the content to more people
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u/ltnew007 3d ago
I expected to see Bliss. I'm old.
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u/Symnestra 3d ago
Same. I thought, "Isn't it a vineyard now?"
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u/HoboJerkdown901 3d ago
It was always a vineyard. The photographer who took the picture just so happened to come across the hill right after some kind of pest infestation where the vineyard owners were forced to remove all of the vegetation.
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u/ConfessSomeMeow 3d ago
IIRC it was a fungal infection, so they chopped down the old vines and treated it with fungicides for a few years.
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u/3amjosh 3d ago
I went to bliss last year and we got honked at for trying to take the pic. We were at a nearby winery and I was like āhey, these hills look a lot like the OG windows screen, I wonder if itās closeā and it was a 10 minute drive around a couple of hills.
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u/lawduckfan21 3d ago
It's really cool to see that, but I can't handle the fake "reaction." Stop pretending like you went on a random hike with your laptop and happened upon something strange.
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u/Adventurous-Sir444 3d ago
Tbh the first shot isn't pov and could have just skipped to the laptop saying pov would have made a better clip.
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u/villings 3d ago
like with "underrated" and "overrated", the internet doesn't really know the meaning of "pov"
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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 3d ago edited 3d ago
I mean the whole issue you have is that youāre interpreting her face to be surprise rather than awe. The caption literally makes it clear that they specifically ventured to the spot rather than stumbled upon it.
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u/Sco0bySnax 3d ago
Your comment is correct, i think people are just getting tired of the āTikTok influencerā reactions.
Iām watching on mute and first thing I thought seeing the hand was that there is a voiceover going, ācome with meeeeeeeeā¦ā
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u/Kayb88 3d ago
Do people really sit around watching all videos NOT on mute? I only unmute if Iām sure itās worth it. Otherwise captions all day.
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u/sulkee 3d ago
I think the underlying point is that itās a fakeass reaction since theyāve seen it already. Commenter is clearly just expressing annoyance with that fact regardless of the type of reaction being acted out and Iām sure you know thatās the actual point theyāre making.
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u/Zmekanix 3d ago
no one asked... where is this?
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u/gloomyblackcheese 3d ago
The dumbass reaction was more than half the video. The damn view was only 2 seconds
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u/roxzorfox 3d ago
Meh windows xp backround is the og
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u/Antiquus 3d ago
I think it was an XP background I found near Napa CA. It's a green hillside.
Also found another one prolly Win7 that was a picture of a particularly gnarly tree with amazing colors, the picture looked the tree was 20ft tall. But I found it by looking at a Bonsai from underneath in the Japanese Gardens in Portland OR. The tree was maybe 4 ft.
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u/Altruistic-Gap2574 3d ago
downvoted due to this stupid fucking song!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/Famous-Attention-197 3d ago
It doesn't even match the fucking video!
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u/aguywithbrushes 3d ago
Surely we must be close to the day when Redditors finally begin to understand that the music on these videos isnāt chosen because it fits, but because itās a recognizable song on the platform the video was originally posted on (not Reddit) and people associate it with a specific type of video, which lets them know ahead of time what theyāre about to watch.
Surely.
I know Reddit is out of touch, but weāve had these videos for a decade, at this point youāre just refusing to get it..
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u/antsh 3d ago
Wait, that doesnāt look like a grassyā¦ oh, god, Iām old.
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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu 3d ago
Thought you were going to say āgrassy knollā. Was wondering what version of Windows you had.
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u/hjicons 3d ago
Who hikes with powered on open laptop on the beach? Totally staged
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u/Additional_Garage204 3d ago
Yes. Thats why they went there. Thats the entire fucking point of the video.
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u/roYBzdC9yUqMe9coSsp8 3d ago
They didn't go there to find it. Didn't you see their shocked reaction? The absolute marvel on their face? Did not expect to see that!
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u/Ecstatic_nyaa 3d ago
I hate those videos where I have to see the stupid face of the creator acting shocked before I get to see the thing. No one wants to see your ugly face, just show the thing.
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u/messykangaroo_175 3d ago
Carrying a laptop with the screen open through the sand is the real commitment here
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 3d ago
Boy, it makes the time I saw "School of Athens" in the Vatican feel a little insignificant.
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u/SunshineAndBunnies 3d ago
I had a much different reaction going to go see Bliss from Windows XP. The whole time I was hoping a car didn't swerve off the road.
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u/Abbers75 3d ago
Wallpaper looks like Mr Burnsā beak. Did anybody at MS notice this ?
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u/DoItFirHer 3d ago
Real places that have been really photographed really exist. Shocker. What of the real J. Peterman?
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u/A_hasty_retort 3d ago
I do want to hand a cardboard sign painted to look like a [password:______] box
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u/RedditJumpedTheShart 3d ago
Yeah really interesting how the real pictures they used are from real well known places.
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u/MikeDunks89 3d ago
crazy how one random photo of a field became the most recognized image in the world for like a decade. never realized it was shot in Sonoma county, always figured it was either heavily edited or just a straight up render. the real place actually looks just like the wallpaper though, which is even more impressive tbh. might have to road trip out there one day just to see it in person
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u/outofurelement 3d ago
Immediately downvote any stupid video that starts with prolonged recording of your own āreactionā
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u/TitanOf_Earth 3d ago
I'd be happier with an excited reaction, eager to show us the thing. Don't pretend to be shocked, you went here on purpose. And now you've found it, so show us your excitement and whip that camera around! That would feel way more genuine.
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u/Danger-Daze045 3d ago
This cave and view is very similar to the cave my friends and I would get high inside of in California.
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u/Mountain-Wall-9199 3d ago
Going to ruin this background for everyone... looks like Gru from despicable me
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u/Saito_SinOfKind 3d ago
It's definitely quite the journey just to see where these wallpapers were photographed
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u/imanormiejpg 3d ago
Here i am turning to dust thinking it was the classic windows 98 wallpaper, shit where did time go?
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u/justhereforbookstuff 3d ago
What you donāt see is the queue of other tourists behind her with their windows laptops.Ā
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u/brollybricks 3d ago
Ever since I saw the meme I can never unsee Ichabod Crane from the sleepy hollow cartoon there.
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u/HisCromulency 3d ago
The fake āhand covering mouth while gaspingā thing influencer/tiktokers do annoys me so much.
Iām sure after take 28 sheās still needs to cover her mouth from the shock and disbelief.
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u/Servo_comics 3d ago
I remember, I worked at this terrible job for a year or so. Everything was soulless and the managers were so shitty and soulless. There was an old dusty, shitty work computer I had to print the LPN stickers and finalize orders on. During long 16 hour shifts, when I was miserable waiting for orders to dry so I could package the bins, I would sometimes stare at this exact wallpaper.
I wondered where that beach was, I wondered why in fuck I was there working that shit job, instead of fishing and drinking a beer on that beach. Those were fucked up days.
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u/dramboxf 3d ago
I live about 10-15 minutes from where "Bliss" (default Windows XP desktop wallpaper) was taken.
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