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Infographic Dumps, or Life Hacks, are threads in which the posters instruct readers in various life skills which could potentially prove useful in making the reader’s life easier or to simply enlighten the reader with new information. They have been found on various 4chan boards, but are most commonly found on /b/.
This phenomenon has managed to grow to resemble something like the Anarchist Cookbook with various infographics instructing real life hacks like breaking opening a combination locks using a set sequences.
These posts allow people to share information they are privy too, but would not normally be allowed to distribute unless under the veil of anonymity, like the illegal hacking of DOTS road service signs.
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On Other Sites
On other sites, such as reddit, life hacks can range from a trick to access some secret function of a device to building something to make things easier.
Infographics
“Infographic” is a broad term that can refer to any visual representations of information, and have become increasingly significant with the rise of the Internet. From Wikipedia 1:
2005–Present day. The information graphic trend starts to become popular amongst the larger social media aggregation sites Digg Reddit. The data contained in modern info graphics tends to be research centric and attributed to multiple sources. Information graphics of note are the Infographic Resume of Michael and the more modern UK Government Spending live infographic
With the popularity of the information graphics continuing to grow, see google search trends, many internet marketing companies use this to generate viral content that web users will share freely.
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External References
1 Wikipedia – Information graphics: The development of a visual language in the 20th century