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Tuesday 26 March 2013

Karma: A Story For The Internet Age

He was seconds from passing out from the pain, but Mike still had the presence of mind to pull out his phone and take a picture of his mangled right hand with his left, and upload it to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit, alongside an appropriately pithy/depreciating comment.

“That’ll get me so much karma” he said, before slipping into shock-induced unconsciousness.

He was right, too: ‘Safety First, Kids [OC]’ was on the Front Page within hours. 3k karma, 100k views. Lucky git.