If you’re catching up with the weekend’s media news over a cup of coffee, we doubt you’ll have missed the latest gaffe from TIME magazine. Their latest cover features Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus – pioneers in all things virtual reality.
The cover shows him awkwardly dancing (or is it skipping?) wearing one of the company’s VR headsets. The article itself uses every nerd stereotype under the sun, and many are aghast at descriptions of him being able to talk in ‘normal sentences that are easy to understand’. Below is the original cover, in all its cringeworthy glory:
Time Magazine revealed its latest cover, showing Oculus VR creator Palmer Luckey wearing his virtual reality headset. pic.twitter.com/eHm3pCbiTQ
— Gaming Humor & News (@VGFGamers) August 7, 2015
The internet has unsurprisingly gone to town on the new cover, with various Twitter pages asking for the best (and worst) in photoshop offerings. Here are our own contributions, and a round-up of our favourite from the Twittersphere…
See the internet’s hilarious reaction to Time Magazine’s goofy Oculus VR cover! http://t.co/2McPisPdAJ pic.twitter.com/aQJcweRJIG — GameSpot (@gamespot) August 8, 2015
Thought I’d add my two cents on this Time VR thang. pic.twitter.com/ilzvc4Ge9k
— Trent Seely (@InstaTrent) August 7, 2015
The Internet mocked the @TIME VR cover, and rightfully so. http://t.co/Pzd2hUWC5U pic.twitter.com/kSZ12iIrh0 — Cheezburger (@Cheezburger) August 6, 2015
The @TIME cover with Palmer Luckey is amazing and really, really odd. So we photochopped it: http://t.co/EnvsNqnJ7V pic.twitter.com/KuZqywjasg
— Jessica L. Conditt (@JessConditt) August 6, 2015
Seen any more brilliant reactions to the cover? Tweet us @pagelizard and we’ll feature it here!
