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MEMernet: The Burbs, “Legit Santa,” and Squirrel City

An amazing shot of a nearby galaxy, a Santa remembered, and some Memphis-y AI imagery.

Memphis on the internet.

The Burbs

Memphis Redditor u/odddiv took and shared this amazing image of the Andromeda Galaxy, a suburb of our Milky Way, from Bartlett, a suburb of our Memphis.

“Legit Santa”

Redditors also remembered Dan Rokitka, who played Santa near Memphis for 37 years, according to his 2018 obituary.

His Santa was memorable because he wore an earpiece and was fed information from parents hidden in a nearby booth. “Dude knew everything about you, your relatives, how you had behaved that year … it was down right scary,” wrote u/Ten-4RubberDucky, who called Rokitka a “treasure of a human.”

POSTED TO FACEBOOK BY GREG AKERS

Squirrel City

Flyer alums Chris Davis and Greg Akers got rabbit-holed in AI-generated image-making last week and shared their results on Facebook. For the image above, Akers prompted a program to create the “city of Memphis run by squirrels.”