Every meme worth its salt has that punch of truth hidden beneath the absurdity. The one that gets me every time is the classic “but there will be signs.” Most people imagine vague omens—strange lights in the sky, cryptic graffiti on an alley wall, maybe a goat with unnervingly human eyes. For me, though, the sign of all signs would be far more tangible, ergonomic, and priced just slightly north of common sense.

There’s a new little game making its way around social feeds, and it’s not about filters, lenses, or even AI—it’s about cropping. People take a gorgeous photo that clearly refuses to fit into the stretched-out, stingy rectangle of a banner or header. They post it with a sigh: “How do I get this to fit in our header?” A few minutes later comes the encore: “Nevermind, I figured it out.” And instead of a perfect landscape, you get a wild punchline—maybe a zoomed-in cat face, a stretched-out meme, or an unexpected detail that suddenly steals the stage.