# Question: Would there be any interest in a Photoplasty game?

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**Created:** [October 12, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-would-there-be-any-interest-in-a-photoplasty-game/952343 "2021-10-12T04:34:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 12, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-would-there-be-any-interest-in-a-photoplasty-game/952343/1 "2021-10-12T04:34:42Z")

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I used to be an enthusiastic participant in the Cracked Photoplasty contests:

> **[Cracked Photoplasty | Cracked.com](https://www.cracked.com/photoplasty)**
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> A funny website filled with funny videos, pics, articles, and a whole bunch of other funny stuff. Cracked.com, celebrating 50 years of humor.

They’re not like they used to be, as they are now done by Cracked’s professional designers, but back in the day, say 2015 or 2016, they were done by ordinary people submitting entries. The Cracked site is searchable; you can look back to see examples of what we ordinary people used to do. There were cash prizes, and I’m proud to say that I won a few.

I’m not proposing cash prizes, just bragging rights. But I am wondering if anybody here would like to participate in our own Straight Dope photoplasties. Each of Cracked’s were based around a theme: “Typos that would ruin the world,” or “Alcohol ads that tell the truth,” or “If movies had better titles”; and they generally required image manipulation – that is, you couldn’t just slap text on a photo in many cases, though a few called for that. For example, “Famous movie lines that work as well or better in another picture,” where we gave a still from a movie, and a voice balloon stating the other movie’s famous line.

Like I mentioned, I enjoyed designing for those contests and entering; and I think other Dopers did too, based on commentary here from back in the day. Would there be any interest in doing the same here nowadays? Again, there would be no prizes, just bragging rights, but my design skills are getting rusty, and I’d like to use them again.

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