I check Yahoo!’s “Most Emailed Photos” page once a day. What I love about it is the great combination of things you’ll get. Usually there’s:
- Something from the news, maybe a photo of some soldiers or a senator
- A celebrity shot of some kind, maybe Brat Pitt
- A woman in some stay of undress, either a bikini shot, or a lingerie show, or a model
- Something grotesque, either a very, very fat person, a one-eyed kitten, or anything else that people might call a “freak”
- An animal, often something exceedingly adoreable, but sometimes something rare like a new species that’s just been discovered
All on the same page, you have the erotic next to the grotesque, the poignant next to the irrelevant. It’s a great slice of what people are concerned about at any one time.