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WikiHow describes itself as "the world's most popular how-to website" that provides "easy, well-researched, and trustworthy instructions for everything you want."

But as celebrities who are constantly hunted by paparazzi would tell you, popularity comes with a price.

In a humorous twist, the subreddit 'Disney Vacation,' with its 623K members, is dedicated to collecting weird, terrifying, and downright bad illustrations from wikiHow and re-captioning them for each other's entertainment.

We've featured this community a few times already, but in homage to their unwavering efforts, we decided to put together a collection of the best images they have ever produced. Enjoy!

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are people out there wishing they had vaccines, and fools are out here like, "Naw, let's roll the dice on my kids' lives because an idiot told me to."

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Analyn Lahr
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't that the name of the CPR dummy? Or am I confusing that with something else?

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wikiHow was introduced to the internet by Jack Herrick on January 15, 2005. This date was chosen to honor Wikipedia, which was also launched on January 15, only in 2001.

And silly as some of the illustrations might seem, wikiHow founder Jack Herrick says the goal of the platform is to give everyone on the planet a "practical education" – whether it's sexing turkeyscasting a love spell, or wearing fishnets.

Before Wikihow, Herrick founded eHow, a site with a similar idea but that paid its contributors. However, according to the businessman, this concept wasn't working.

Then, in 2004, he stumbled across Wikipedia. "It was clear it was going to be an amazing resource and become the best site on the internet," Herrick told WIRED. "And I said: 'If this works for an encyclopedia, does it work for a how-to guide?'"

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He borrowed the open-source wiki software, and the next year released Wikihow. "Pretty much nothing happened," he recalled. "In those first days, we had almost no users, almost no edits. I think we had 2,000 people visit us that first month."

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Herrick, who is still heavily involved in the day-to-day running of Wikihow, wanted to encourage people who did jump in and make edits to stick around. "Anyone who edited the site, I’d send them a personal note. It was that level of detail. I would look over every single change." And it slowly caught on.

Volunteer contributor Eric Wester first visited the site in 2007. "I don't remember the specific article that was featured that first brought me to Wikihow, although I was hooked pretty quickly," he said. Now, Wester does everything from writing articles to checking licensing on uploaded images, moderating pages for deletion, and helping teach new editors. "It's fun to be able to learn more about people's passions and then help point them in the direction of an editing tool that they might really find their niche in," he added.

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Initially, the site only had Creative Commons images pulled in from Flickr or Wikimedia, but these were mostly generic and not instructive.

So to improve them, wikiHow hired a photographer, tasking them to illustrate a few articles. It worked, so more photographers were quickly hired. And they still do photography, but as you can see, there are some things you just can't photograph.

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wikiHow didn't expect a strong reaction to its illustrations, nor the memes. The funny thing is that Herrick is actually aware of 'Disney Vacation.'

"Whoever is making those memes, super clever – very funny. There's some unbelievable stuff on there. It's comedy gold," he said.

These illustrations may be part of what has made wikiHow so famous online, but as WIRED's Nicole Kobie points out, what makes the site truly stand out isn't so obvious on its pages.

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It's just a nice place to scroll through. Plenty of online communities devolve into cesspits of trolling and abuse, but wikiHow has managed to stay friendly. Let's hope it stays that way, too. Otherwise, where would we get all of these hilarious images?

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*blocked* it's hauntingly easy for me to cut people out of my life. Something about turning 40 made me realize that I didn't want to deal with b******t from anyone, for any reason.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brain will never forget about the little red worms either 🤮😫

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I talk like I'm from Brooklyn, but I sound like on of the Superfans lol it sounds like an SNL skit when something gets me heated lol the Sicilian is strong in this blood lol

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Several neighborhoods in Boston too from what I've learned through looking at real estate websites. Apparently to live comfortably in the Boston area one needs to make over 100,000 dollars a year, or around $60 an hour. Why do I mention this? I just got back from vacation in Boston and I absolutely fell in love with it. But I don't make that kind of bread.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good God! Who got so offended by the words 'Careful now' that they had to downvote it? Talk about missing the joke. If I'm not mistaken, Savahax is saying that the Lobbyist Ethics Course is short because those two words ARE the course.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When the paper is perfect the way it is, don't bum it out with problems, man.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I pledge allegiance to Windows XP, the OS of old, With Taskbar gleaming, and Start Menu bold. From the bluescreen of death, it kept us free, Oh, how we miss that sound of USB! For Clippy, and games like Solitaire, I promise to cherish, with love and care. So here's to the windows of yesteryear, In my heart, you'll always be near!

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stop tickling me, Karl, I BLOODY WELL MEAN IT THIS TIME!

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My great grand father survived pepper spray and mustard gas in the war. He was a seasoned veteran...

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"An Integral is the area under the curve of a function, now there are severa- DROP THAT PIECE OF LIVER! "

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did people downvote savahax’s comment…please at least restore balanc

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guarantee you do that to a cat, he will not appear that mellowed out

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