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# Lowest Common Denominator: A Kara Walker Selfie Generator
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/lowest-common-denominator-a-kara-walker-selfie-generator/
- Published: 2014-06-30T23:02:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:15.000Z
- Description: If you enjoy obvious jokes about the way people interact with ubiquitous technological features, you'll love sugarselfie.us, a new website that fights bad taste with worse.
- Author: Mostafa Heddaya
- Tags: In Brief, Domino Sugar Factory, Kara Walker, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![karawalkerselfies_main](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/06/karawalkerselfies_main.png)

(screenshot via sugarselfie.us)

If you enjoy obvious jokes about the way people interact with ubiquitous technological features, you’ll love [sugarselfie.us](http://www.sugarselfie.us/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a new website that fights bad taste with worse: a “selfie generator” that places you, thanks to some low-fi techno-maneuvering, right *there* at the Kara Walker Domino Sugar Factory installation, alongside the [boors amid the Blackamoors](http://news.artnet.com/art-world/kara-walkers-sugar-sphinx-spawns-offensive-instagram-photos-29989?ref=hyperallergic.com)*. “ITS \[sic\] LIKE YOU ARE REALLY THERE!!!!”*

The dream of Warhol at its zenith — a neoliberal quagmire wherein appearance is always more important than agency. It’s a barely clever rejoinder to a banal phenomenon long since taken to its logical conclusion, but hey, give the people what they want [deserve](http://gawker.com/the-audacity-of-no-chill-kara-walker-in-the-instagram-1585944103?ref=hyperallergic.com).