{"id":89,"date":"2008-08-10T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/10\/aims-pixnay-is-an-interesting-psychological-study\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:11:47","slug":"aims-pixnay-is-an-interesting-psychological-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/10\/aims-pixnay-is-an-interesting-psychological-study\/","title":{"rendered":"AIM&#8217;s pixnay is an interesting psychological study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/10\/aims-pixnay-is-an-interesting-psychological-study\/pixnay\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/files\/2008\/08\/twixter1.jpg' alt='Pixnay' width=\"400\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AIM&#8217;s Pixnay, a service which allows users to upload pictures of themselves to be ranked by the AIM community for &#8220;hotness bragging rights&#8221; really is an interesting display of web-culture, and the extent of narcissism truly present in society, but usually hidden.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly not calling those who take part in the system narcissistic, but the fact that thousands of people have taken the time to take &#8220;the perfect pictures&#8221; of themselves to be ranked by others shows, perhaps, the true interests and insecurity of the general public. Pixnay is a semi-anonymous &#8220;rate how I look from 1 to 10&#8221; for the masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIM&#8217;s Pixnay, a service which allows users to upload pictures of themselves to be ranked by the AIM community for &#8220;hotness bragging rights&#8221; really is an interesting display of web-culture, and the extent of narcissism truly present in society, but usually hidden. I&#8217;m certainly not calling those who take part in the system narcissistic, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}