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A fact, then a wild cause

Ancient Aliens: the fact, then the wild cause

Giorgio Tsoukalos, hair first. One line states what you cannot explain. The next line blames something ridiculous, with a straight face.

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What the two lines owe each other

Ancient Aliens is the History Channel still of Giorgio Tsoukalos, hair at full height, used since the early 2010s for a bad explanation delivered with total confidence. The top box is a reasonable observation or a gap in the evidence. The bottom box is the culprit, short: “aliens,” or a stand-in with the same logic, a cron job, a coworker named Dave, Mercury retrograde. The hair is how people recognize the still when it is tiny. Cover it and he is a man talking.

The show’s move is the whole caption: we cannot explain this, therefore the wild thing. “The bug only happens on Tuesdays” over “aliens” is complete. Two careful facts, and no leap, leave you with a documentary frame. The bottom line should be shorter than the setup. His face is already certain, and a paragraph of theory on the chin shouts over a photograph that is shouting with its silhouette.

The substitute for aliens has to be a silly mechanism, not a group of people. The joke is bad reasoning. Aiming the bottom line at a community turns it into a slight, and the hair will not rescue that. Classrooms should not use the still to teach the history the show got wrong. Readers are trained to laugh at whatever you put under the face. A choice between two real options belongs on Two Buttons. A claim you want strangers to dispute belongs on the campus sign.

Top: “the bug only happens on Tuesdays.” Bottom: “aliens.” Or a stand-in with the same logic: a cron job, a coworker named Dave, Mercury retrograde. The top is a gap in the evidence. The bottom is a silly mechanism, shorter than the setup. Two careful facts and no leap leave you with a documentary frame. The hair is how people recognize the still when it is tiny.

The substitute for aliens has to be a mechanism, not a group of people. The joke is bad reasoning. Aiming the bottom line at a community turns it into a slight, and the hair will not rescue that. Classrooms should not use the still to teach the history the show got wrong. Readers are trained to laugh at whatever you put under the face. A choice between two real options belongs on Two Buttons.

The JPEG is quality 0.92, painted in this browser. Captions become capitals, white with a black stroke, Impact first. A one-word culprit still looks like a leap after the uppercase pass. A paragraph of theory on the chin covers the silhouette that makes the still recognizable. Save and check that the hair is clear of the type. You are downloading a still, not a clip from the show.

State a gap, then blame a silly mechanism. The bug that only appears on Tuesdays. Aliens. Or a cron job, or Mercury retrograde, something that cannot be the real cause and is offered with a straight face. The bottom line should be shorter than the top. Two careful facts are a documentary, and this face is not a documentary. Keep the hair clear. That silhouette is how the still reads when it is tiny. Do not aim the bottom line at a group of people. The joke is bad reasoning, and a community in that slot becomes a slight the hair will not soften. Classrooms should not use the frame to correct the show’s history, because readers are trained to laugh at the lower line. Export, cover the chin, and confirm the hair still identifies the picture. The leap has to be obvious without a paragraph of theory.

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When the hair still is the wrong picture

Two setup lines, a sticker in the hair, or a bottom caption that is actually plausible all stall the leap. If the explanation needs citations, it belongs in a thread. Science you want believed will inherit the laugh. The template has been training people to distrust the bottom line for more than a decade.

Where the wild cause still gets used

Architecture arguments, comment screenshots, and threads that need a ridiculous root cause in one glance. The hair has to survive a square crop, because that outline is the template at thumbnail size. A work chat can swap in a build step or a named service. Keep it out of a lesson where the bottom line is supposed to be the true one.

How to split the two boxes

Mystery, then the culprit

Top is the unexplained fact. Bottom is the overconfident cause. Two facts and no leap is a documentary still.

Keep the cause short

Two or three words. “Aliens,” “the cron job,” “Dave.” A paragraph of theory belongs under the post.

Leave the hair clear

That silhouette is how the still reads at a small size. A sticker there removes the punctuation.

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