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This Is What Happens When Headlines Are Replaced With User Comments

You've Never Seen The News Look Like This

What would the news look like if headlines were replaced with user comments?

Web and interactive designer Richard Westenra decided to make that thought a reality by creating a new tool that replaces the headline of any article on the Daily Mail's homepage with user comments from that same article.

"The results are often a little terrifying," he wrote.

Look:

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Westenra's said he got the idea from Twitter user TechnicallyRon, who did a similar experiment earlier in March:

The DailyMail becomes slightly more terrifying when you replace the headlines with quotes from the comments section. pic.twitter.com/v6t1pTW974

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) March 16, 2014

Obviously, HuffPost commenters would generate headlines that were far less "terrifying" and far more "extremely thoughtful, perceptive and witty."

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