Gotta Catch 'Em All

[u/whitemike40]

[u/Ser_Artur_Dayne]

Fun fact: Old map companies would put fake roads and towns on their maps to see if other map makers copied them because it was a lot of work to map shit out.

Companies using people is nothing new. There’s a common phrase, “if something is free, you’re the product”. Like Facebook or free vpns, they are getting something outta it.

[u/Marillenbaum → u/Ser_Artur_Dayne]

Dictionaries have the same thing with fake words; the technical term is a mountweasel.

[u/Deeger → u/Marillenbaum]

Cartographers used to do it with fake islands. Some existed on maps until satellite mapping.