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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Artwork for Internet Object of the Day: The Button That Does Nothing
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.

Internet Object of the Day: The Button That Does Nothing

Sam Rook presses it seventeen times for science.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

A button that does nothing is one of the purest objects on the web.

No conversion. No funnel. No account creation. No “learn more.”

You press it.

Nothing happens.

At last, a promise kept.

Portrait artwork for MARCY COIL

MARCY COIL

Marcy Coil documents ordinary behavior after it has been left unattended too long. Her desk contains three pens and one grievance.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.

MORE BROKEN ZINEBAD IDEA ARCADEODDITIES

ASK THE EDITOR A QUESTION

NO.

BROKEN ZINESOME THINGS SHOULDN’T BE FIXED.

DO NOT PRESS

YOU FOUND THE FOOTER. PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.