What is the unicorn?
Unicorn Chaser is a picture or video of a unicorn that looks at the cleaning of mind and eyes after seeing unpleasant content on the Internet. This concept was a pioneer of the boingboing in August 2003, when one of the editors published a photo of a mysterious rash, and another editor followed the image of a unicorn to push the rash so that viewers could see the unicorn when they landed on the web rather than a terrible rash. Boingboing often includes pursuit of unicorn on its website after discussion about unpleasant problems or displaying gross photos and some other websites have gained this concept.
Although it is definitely nice to see a pleasant picture after looking at a disgusting picture or a rough video, the pursuit of the unicorn actually has several features. For example, on the main website, the use of the pursuit of the unicorn may ensure that visitors are not disgusted when they move to the main page. Also allows people to look atWork pages because they can be sure that an unpleasant topic will not be the first thing to load. The pursuit of the unicorn can also be used to show the found picture on the web that the poster thinks that other people could enjoy.
Typical persecutor Unicorn is simply a unicorn picture, but variants include short videos with songs or unicorn presented in Lolcat style with a stupid, illiterate text. The style of art can be quite diverse; Unicorn Chasers can be changed with photographs of horses, paintings, pastel drawings or everything in between. It is also possible to use pictures of other fantasy creatures or baby animals in the same way as the unicorn is used.
Classical situations in which unicorn could be persecuted, includes posts of various unpleasant health conditions, gross videos or heated interviews, and debates that are ugly. AfterWhich you want to use the pursuit of unicorn on your own site, make sure you have permission to use the image. Many artists are glad to publish their pictures if you host them on your own servers and clearly attribute artists, but it is good to ask first, just in case. You can also link to a hosted hosted on another site; For example, boingboing has a number of pursuers of previous unicorn in its archives.