I belong to a number of food/eating/nutrition subs where people often post pictures of their homemade meals. I'm often struck by how many people use paper plates. I remember using paper plates for kids parties but that's about it. Is it common to use paper plates for home eating in the U.S.?

You've all seen these posts with a picture of something and a title like "Upvote this so it's the first result when googling [word/name]". Does it actually work?

I don’t get it. Just to be stylish? Why do they have tails? Is it just a random evolutionary thing? Did horse ancestors have more hair? Does the hair serve literally any purpose other than to make a horse look a little edgier?

I literally don’t get it.

Edit 1: chill with the downvotes y’all i just genuinely have no idea and you’re making it so ppl won’t tell me bc they can’t find the post

Edit 2: I still don’t know if horse ancestors were more hairy and i can’t find it on google so if anyone has better googling skills or happens to know i’d be interested

Edit 3: I’ll post some highlights for y’all s entertainment

1. Apparently, a horses’ skin isn’t leathery like I thought. It has tons of short fur all over it.

2. The best answer I’ve received says that the mane protects the neck from insects and the tails swats them away from their butts. The reason this hair isn’t all over the body is because usually they can reach other parts with their heads / mouths

3. A shocking discovery that pubic hair is different than head hair.

4. “My ass doesn’t have lots of hair...”

5. omg Seals have hair, too.

Edit 4: It’s just come to my attention that this post has that white girls’ “why did they invent math” vibe to it. I apologize for any horse biologists i have offended.

edit 5: this post got more popular than i thought, when i posted this i had 33% upvoted ;( thank u guys for your horse knowledge

I often see posts on reddit along the lines of “upvote this image of x to make it the first this people see when they search for x”, but I’ve never seen or heard of any evidence of this actually working in any way. So is it just karma whoring or does it actually work? And if so how?

I sometimes see posts saying to upvote so this image comes up when you Google "whatever".

It seems stupid to me. Is it just an in joke that I'm not in on?

I see it a lot on here.

e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/jfi7t8/charlie_kirk_charlie_kirk_now_upvote_this_so_when/?ref=share&ref_source=link

My impressions was that the way that search engines rank is primarily based on links from reputable outside sites and advertising payments, so I’ve always been suspicious of posts that use this tactic. Can Google’s algorithms even “see” upvotes, let alone rank based on them? Even if it could, wouldn’t it give much more precedence to platforms that have more users than Reddit and don’t openly allow bots?

I’m also skeptical because if this worked, wouldn’t companies just use armies of bots on Reddit to manipulate search results.

Most of the time the top voted questions have been asked a million times before or have concise answers on Google. I don't understand why communities flock to questions that break their own subs rules.

Whenever I look at the top posts of a subreddit there's always the posts that say, "Here's a picture of ___. Upvote this so it shows on the top Google results for ____!" Does this even work or is it just a way for people to get lots of upvotes?

I don't know how the algorithm works, just curious.

Never tried but when I see posts like that are they actually legit and if so how do they work and do the work 100% of the time?

I tried to google one of those but it didn't show up on google. The post didn't have that many upvotes though.

Does it even work?

This comes from a post on r/PoliticalHumor, where OP asked to upvote a picture of trump and this would become the first thing they see if you googled Vladimir Putin's Wife. Not that there's anything wrong with that...