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- 1Fat Bear Week Crowns New Champion 'Backpack'●'Backpack' has been crowned Fat Bear Week champion: Inside the National Park contest that became an internet obsession.
A brown bear nicknamed Backpack has won Fat Bear Week, the annual competition run by Alaska's Katmai National Park that asks the public to vote on the bear that has best bulked up before hibernation. The contest, launched as a lighthearted park outreach event, has grown into a beloved internet tradition drawing millions of votes and worldwide attention each autumn.
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Art brut, the raw art made outside academic tradition, is being framed as a lens for understanding today's internet culture. A new essay argues that the unfiltered, self-taught, and often obsessive creativity associated with art brut mirrors how people create and share online, outside gatekeepers and formal institutions. The piece invites readers to reconsider outsider art as a precursor to vernacular digital expression.