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Bag News Editor-at-Large, Meg Handler, wrote an insightful piece on the "gay schoolboy" photo taken by Brandon Stanton and featured on the ever-popular Humans

Dave Isay of StoryCorps and Brandon Stanton of the website, Humans of New York, share thoughts on how to get the best stories out of people.

Soap operas, "soaps" or "my stories," as many a grandmother has called them, are dramas presented in a serial format on daytime television or radio. Their name comes from a time when old serial dramas broadcast on radio had soap manufacturers (Procter & Gamble and Lever Brothers, to name a few) as sponsors and/or producers. They also, you might have noticed, look really really crappy.There are two main reasons for this lack of visual quality, both of which are rooted in the problem of soap operas'

"Sometimes you want a GIF to look really fake because that's where the humor lies, but if you doctor it too much people are just like, 'This has gone too far.'"