huliwood. Midwit Detector

Make a midwit meme

The bell curve meme: the dumb end and the smart end say the same simple thing, and the middle overthinks it. Write both lines, then save the picture.

The middle: I need a sous vide circulator, a Japanese mandoline, and a 14-day dry brine schedule I found on a subreddit.

A bell curve with a glass head at each end and one in the middle: three plain pieces at the low end, a head of splinters in the middle, five pieces with one gilded at the high end.

The dumb end: Salt, heat, eat.

The smart end: Salt, heat, eat.

The picture is made on your device. The link carries your two lines.

Blank templates

The same board with no words on it, to fill in anywhere else. 1,200 by 1,040 pixels.

Blank midwit meme template on paper: a bell curve with three glass heads – three plain stone pieces at the low end, a head of splinters in the middle, five amber pieces with one gilded at the high end – and no words.
On paper Download
Blank midwit meme template after dark: the same bell curve and three glass heads on a near-black ground, with no words.
After dark Download

Where the meme comes from

The midwit meme puts three people on an IQ bell curve and gives the two ends the same answer. The fool says it on instinct, the sage after thirty years, and the one in the middle, who has read some things, says something longer. Here the heads are cut from Huliwood’s own glass: three pieces at the low end, seventy-two splinters in the middle, five at the high end with one gilded.

Where do you land? Take the Midwit Detector, ten questions. The essay behind it: Don’t Mid-Curve It.