"'Tis the season of over-the-top cookie decorating, and while shaped cookie cutters are normally sold in themed sets, many of them go astray and lose their context entirely. In a Reddit community devoted to figuring out what those unidentified cookie cutters might depict, many of its members are finding that the obscure outlines are the perfect tool to spark their imagination."
"The space started out as a fun guessing game to help solve years-long household mysteries born of many a Christmas past, but it turns out it's much more fun for people to propose the most absurd, niche, and outlandish possibilities, complete with accompanying digital drawings that fit those odd shapes. A shape as innocuous as the one pictured above yields myriad interpretations - a testament to the diversity of the human experience."
"As it turns out, the cookie cutter was identified as the shape of Finland, but never let reality get in the way of your imagination. The community has exploded over the last three years, with over 350,000 weekly visitors. It's also one of the more wholesome spaces on the website. This one was never solved, but the user insisted on no NSFW ideas, so feast thine eyes on this array of family-friendlyinterpretations. Some of the cookie cutter shapes become blindingly obvious once they're correctly identified, but one must ask why they exist in the first place."
A subreddit called r/WhatIsMyCookieCutter helps users identify unidentified cookie-cutter shapes and grew out of r/baking during the 2022 holiday season. Community members submit odd outlines and supply guesses and digital drawings that turn obscure shapes into absurd, niche, or accurate interpretations alike. Some cutters are correctly identified as recognizable forms like the shape of Finland or a KitchenAid mixer, while others remain unsolved and inspire family-friendly speculation. The forum attracts hundreds of thousands of weekly visitors and maintains a wholesome tone, using mundane household objects as prompts for collective creativity and humor.
Read at Hyperallergic
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