There are very few questions that stress us out more than, “What do you write about on Wait But Why?” The only real answer is “Lots of shit that’s different and sometimes about monkeys and sometimes about eternal death.”

Another stressful one: “So how does one…make money from a blog?” to which we can only reply, “Well we made stuffed animals. And t-shirts. And also I don’t like you.”

A third unfortunate question: “What’s your plan with Wait But Why?” Which requires a wishy-washy, amorphous response like, “We don’t really know but we want to make it be rad.”

The fact is, we’re not exactly sure what Wait But Why is. It’s kind of a blog, it’s kind of a real site, it’s kind of serious, it’s kind of silly, it’s kind of edgy, it’s kind of earnest, it’s kind of smart, it’s kind of dumb.

Here’s what we do know:

• We love creating content more than we love anything ever
• The posts are long as fuck
• We swear sometimes
• Stick figures are a big part of it
• We use the color orange a lot for some reason
• There’s a playing card king involved whose eyes have been sloppily erased and replaced with a not-that-successful attempt at drawing cartoon rolled eyes
• We publish once-a-week
• Usually
• On Tuesdays
• Never
• We’re in this for the long haul

And who’s “we”?

Tim Urban and Andrew Finn—two early-30s dudes who were in kindergarten together and have been oddly-matched best friends since then,1 and who bicker like a 78-year-old married couple.

We started Wait But Why in July 2013 because content on the internet tends to suck, and we were pretty sure we could do better.

So dive in and enjoy, and let us know what you think.

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