February 15, 2021 07:48 pm GMT
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A fake New York town that only existed on a map briefly became real
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post here about the bizarre meme of a fake Avril Lavigne song that started to appear on lyric websites, and eventually spawned its own covers. Several readers commented that it reminded them of "Trap Streets" a cartography practice where a mapmaker marks their intellectual property by including a fake street where none exists. — Read the rest
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