The perfect New Yorker caption for the social web | Frank Chimero

I didn't know that people try to come up with "perfect New Yorker captions", sentences that can be added to any New Yorker cartoon and just work, but it's a fun idea. Frank's modern take is a particularly fun one, that captures a point in web history well (to think, when this all happened many still didn't know what LinkedIn was):

I took a brief look through the New Yorker archive and must admit, I struggled to find any which weren't at least a little funny with this caption 😂

I'm also a general fan of this sentiment:

This went from a dumb idea I had on my commute to a real caption in the magazine in six days. Dumb fun moves fast

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