Imagine this: You’re looking at a picture of a beautiful seascape. The waves are crashing, the sun is shining, and right up top is a weird blur that you can’t quite identify at first. But when you look closer, you know it’s too late. Those blurry things in the photo are a pair of hairy nuts and the dude they belong to is teabagging the ocean. Think that’s not a thing guys would do? Welcome to 2015, where “nutscaping is a thing.”
Jezebel reports that nutscaping is actually nothing new. In fact, it was started in 2007, but it’s just catching on now. It’s even got its own website (WARNING: You will see nuts) which features more “selfies for real men” than any one person can handle. Trust me, even the true nut appreciator will be overwhelmed by the sheer number of fuzzy balls up at this particular URL. Will nutscaping become the next planking or owling? It’s too early to tell, but Instagram’s already banned the account associated with the trend, so news of this exciting new way to take photos will probably spread like wildfire.
Here’s how the trend’s creator describes the art of taking a still life with testicles:
“I believe Nutscapes has great artistic depth because it touches upon both a low-brow vulgarity and a high-brow concept,” [Clancy] Philbrick told Mashable in an email. “Simply, testes are f*cking funny. Always have been; always will be. They add humor to a subject matter, landscape photography, that is typically a little dry.”
Whatever he says, I guess. As someone who’s owned a pair of nuts, however, I’m having a hard time picturing exactly how you’d have to position yourself in order to make this work. Is it a wide-legged stance with one’s nuts draped casually over the top of the phone? How many photos does one have to take per landscape? And here’s the most important question: Does ball sweat void your warranty if it causes damage to your phone?
Check out more nutscapes on Twitter.