Your teachers may have told you thatWikipediais not a solid source for academic essays. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a good source to have a laugh or two. Or for your nerdy side to get lost for half a day in some obscure article about planned procrastination and all its related links.Luckily, there’s an online page where you can find all kinds ofweird snippets from Wikipedia. The Depths of Wikipedia is a hugely popular account with millions of fans on all its social media platforms. You can find our previous articles on this group of social media accountshereandhere.More info:Annie Rauwerda|Instagram|X|TikTokThis post may includeaffiliate links.
Your teachers may have told you thatWikipediais not a solid source for academic essays. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a good source to have a laugh or two. Or for your nerdy side to get lost for half a day in some obscure article about planned procrastination and all its related links.
Luckily, there’s an online page where you can find all kinds ofweird snippets from Wikipedia. The Depths of Wikipedia is a hugely popular account with millions of fans on all its social media platforms. You can find our previous articles on this group of social media accountshereandhere.
More info:Annie Rauwerda|Instagram|X|TikTok
This post may includeaffiliate links.
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What started out as a silly quarantine project has now become a vastly popular endeavor for Annie. The Depths of Wikipedia page on Instagram has 1.4 million followers and 13.3 million likes on TikTok. In 2022, Rauwerdabecamethe Media Contributor of the Year. The accounts have even spawned live comedy shows that Annie hosts based on trivia from Wikipedia.Back in a 2021 interview for Bored Panda, Annie detailed how the page came to be. “It was early quarantine (the stage when everyone was attempting new projects), and I was working on a page of my friend’s quaranzine. I wanted to piece together Wikipedia excerpts into some virtualart.”
What started out as a silly quarantine project has now become a vastly popular endeavor for Annie. The Depths of Wikipedia page on Instagram has 1.4 million followers and 13.3 million likes on TikTok. In 2022, Rauwerdabecamethe Media Contributor of the Year. The accounts have even spawned live comedy shows that Annie hosts based on trivia from Wikipedia.
Back in a 2021 interview for Bored Panda, Annie detailed how the page came to be. “It was early quarantine (the stage when everyone was attempting new projects), and I was working on a page of my friend’s quaranzine. I wanted to piece together Wikipedia excerpts into some virtualart.”
Annie very graciously apologized to her, and Calloway then shared a few of the account’s posts on her social media. Rauwerda says that boosted her account a lot. Today, many famous people follow the Depths of Wikipedia account, including John Mayer (Annie says she fangirled about his follow the most), Troye Sivan, Neil Gaiman, Olivia Wilde, and Lex Fridman.
Annie also did a TEDx talk in 2023, titled “Why anencyclopediais my favorite place on the Internet.” In an interview for The New York Times in 2022, Annieexplainedhow Wikipedia is the best place on the Internet. “It’s what the Internet was supposed to be. It has this hacker ethos of working together and making something.”
Annie says she grew up on the Internet and didn’t have screen restrictions growing up. In middle school, she used to Wikirace with her friends. She says it’s partly what got her interested in Wikipedia in general. “You start at an article — something random like ‘A$AP Rocky’ — and then you click the hyperlinks to get to a destination like ‘chicken hypnotism’ or something like that,” sheexplainedthe game to Mashable.
Some people discover Depths of Wikipedia on TikTok, where Annie creates more engaging content. The following on Instagram is bigger, and she admits that curating content there is easier. “I think TikTok is fun, and I like the way you can use sound and timing, but it’s definitely more effort to make a post.”
In June of 2023, Annie started cooking a veganperpetual stewand decided to share it with the public. She started hosting ‘stew nights’ in her neighborhood in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where people could come to eat and contribute to the stew with their ingredients. It lasted for 60 days and ended in August of 2023.
The perpetual stew stint was similar in its philosophy to what Annie is doing with Depths of Wikipedia. It’s people coming together to make something good. “I love Wikipedia and all, but I do get a little sick of it,” RauwerdatoldGrub Street. “This is just really fun ‘cause it’s a reminder that, like, I don’t have to be the Wikipedia girl all the time. I can take a break and be the stew girl.”
For now, Annie is also working on a book about the cultural history of Wikipedia. “If you like the freeencyclopediathat anyone can edit, just wait for the printed not-encyclopedia that you pay money for,” she wrote on her website in 2023. “It’ll be [a] cultural history of Wikipedia with as much of its goofy content as possible.”
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