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This is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic f
by fvdessen 1y ago
This is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic folklore, the most well known of all being the garden dwarves, whose design also inspired the dwarves in snow white. The design of garden dwarves is quite recent and apparently come from miners. The hats were filled with straw to protect the miner's head from the ceiling.
- dankwizard 1y ago[flagged]
- sbierwagen 1y agoNot AI. Indexed in 2020 by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201001000000*/https://www.pipelinecomics.com/beginning-bd-smurfs-hats-origin/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201001000000*/https://www.pipe... Why GPT writing sounds like the median lazy blog post of five years ago is left as an exercise for the reader.
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- jama211 1y agoBut facts? That goes against the hive mind
- pgsandstrom 1y agoWhat, you think the article was written by AI? Why?
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoIt's 2025, you can flip a coin and be correct half the time, and no consequences if you're wrong.
- jama211 1y agoLooks like there are consequences, they’re being called out, which is good
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y agoBeing called out anonymously and never thinking about it again, that's gotta sting
- quietbritishjim 1y agoI guess because it is full of guesswork and devoid of real factual research (at least for the main headline question). But it turns out that bloggers looking for content and lacking any skill are also capable of writing plausible-sounding slop.
- jama211 1y agoI wouldn’t call this article slop
- amiga386 1y agoBut the article does cover that. German gnomes (Kobolde, especially Hödekin) are usually depicted with pointy hats, or at least ones that curl backwards. The smurf hats are clearly wearing Phrygian caps.
- cubefox 1y agoA quick Google image search for "garden gnome" and "gartenzwerg" shows that both types are quite common. But they originally didn't necessarily have the hats common today. These are the oldest surviving garden gnomes according to [1]: Schloss Mirabell: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirabellgarten_%E7%B1%B3%E6%8B%89%E8%B2%9D%E7%88%BE%E8%8A%B1%E5%9C%92_-_panoramio.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirabellgarten_%E7%B... (1690-1695) Schloss Greillenstein: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss_Greillenstein_Zwergenkabinett.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss_Greillenstei... (around 1700) 1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartenzwerg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartenzwerg
- Cerium 1y agoA simple thanks for sharing these images. I had no idea that garden gnomes could be so artful, interesting, or powerful as those in these two images.
- fvdessen 1y agothe first smurf drawings had pointy hats, the curve is most likely a stylistic evolution. https://www.lm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/schtroumpfs--peyo1.jpg?w=412&h=262 https://www.lm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/schtr...
- larsiusprime 1y agoThat’s still arguably a classic Phrygian cap design. Whatever or not that was the intention/inspiration, it does resemble them - the hats you just showed are not perfectly conical, there’s a flip at the top.