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The Shoebody Bop

The Shoebody Bop is weird, handmade, and pointless in the best way. No polish. No plan. Just someone making stuff for fun. It reminds me why I liked the internet in the first place.

Arthur Soares
Arthur Soares
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The Shoebody Bop by Drue Langlois for The Minute Hour

Lately, everything online looks the same. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube—it’s all polished, pasteurized, and predictable. Same music. Same lighting. Same pacing. Even the “authentic” stuff feels rehearsed. And now there’s AI, everywhere. Sometimes it spits out something clever. Mostly, it just adds to the noise.

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But beneath all that, the weird stuff still exists. Every now and then, I see flashes of the old internet. You never knew what you’d find. Handmade websites and webrings in Geocities. Broken animations. Obsessive YouTube channels with 17 views. The kind of strange that makes you stop scrolling.

I hope more of that comes back. People making things just because they feel like it. No brand, no strategy—just odd little projects that serve no real purpose. It’s messy. In that spirit, I’ve been on a binge on some weird animations from The Minute Hour and other sources.

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The Shoebody Bop

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Arthur Soares

Arthur Soares

I’m Arthur, a Brazilian living in Berlin, working as a product manager with a focus on technology.

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