40 Photos That Will Soothe Every Perfectionist’s Soul

It can be strangely satisfying to see or feel something that’s just perfect. These photos of symmetry and order are appealing to humans and animals alike. Both in society and in the wild, organisms that are “more symmetrical” have a better chance at finding a mate than those who don’t. Some speculate that this is one way of identifying a healthy partner.

In this perfectly imperfect world, we all crave order, symmetry, and evenness. Luckily, the r/OddlySatisfying subreddit is doing every perfectionist a public service by supplying some of the most oddly satisfying sightings that give us a fix of flawlessness. From a perfect stack of pancakes to cats lying like yin and yang, this is something I live for.

These photos are guaranteed to satisfy every perfectionist’s soul. So check them out below!

#1 Before & After Paint Job

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#2 My Neighbors Tree Has The Perfect Fall Gradient

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#3 Droplets On A Car Windshield During Sunset

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Oddly satisfying refers to any kind of sighting, either picture or video, that’s incredibly satisfying to look at. The concept has gained quite a cult following on the internet thanks to the r/OddlySatisfying subreddit, which has a whopping 5 million members. The group was created back in 2013, and it celebrates all the “little things that are inexplicably satisfying.”

According to Know Your Meme, “oddly satisfying” and similar phrases had been used online even earlier than that. It first occurred as early as June 4th, 2011 when a post was published on Jezebel titled “An Oddly Satisfying Montage Of ‘You Just Don’t Get It, Do You?’ Moments.”

Moreover, r/OddlySatisfying was inspired by another hugely popular subreddit community, r/mildlyinteresting, “which was born out of a discussion in r/WTF about the need for a clearer categorical distinction between images that are evocative of WTF and those that would be more aptly described as ‘mildly interesting.’”

#4 Tree’s Shadow

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#5 Perfectly Cozy, Curled Up Cats

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#6 Perfect Snowflake That Fell On My Coat Yesterday

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Fast forward to today, when oddly satisfying and mildly interesting videos are ruling the internet like never before. “We don’t need to be able to explain why we like something in order for it to exist,” Kevin Allocca, head of trends and culture at YouTube, told Wired.

The phenomenon of oddly satisfying pictures and videos, according to Kevin, has to do with the fact that we’ve never had a descriptor for this kind of stuff. “I think we’ve always had a desire to watch these types of things, but we just didn’t have the language for it. Now we do.”

#7 The Way This Cat Blends Into The Wood

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#8 This Welding Job

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#9 This Clean Ice

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#10 This Sauna In Finland

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#11 My Dad Laid New Decking Around An Old Tree!

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#12 These Leaves In This Tree

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#13 I Was Told On A Couple Of Art Subreddits You All Might Appreciate My Art

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#14 This Cake (Credit: Malizzi Cakes)

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#15 This Mystique Cosplay Mid Merge (By Magnetomystique)

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#16 Amazingly Well-Stacked Carrots On A Pickup

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#17 This Boulder With Stretched Bronze Does It For Me

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#18 A Single Fallen Tree Holding Back The Duckweed In The Wetlands Of Louisiana

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#19 These Rhubarb Pies

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#20 I’m An Art Teacher And I Moved To A New School This Past Summer. The Previous Teacher Did Not Share My Love Of Organization. Behold The Before And After Of My Paper Closet!

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#21 The Way The Veins Of The Leaf Align On The Creases Of The Hand

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#22 My Succulent’s Offshoot

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#23 This Scoop Of Peanut Butter

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#24 This Pic Of An Ending Day

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#25 A Flower I Found In Hawaii A Few Months Ago

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#26 Raw Food Cut Into 98 Perfect Cubes

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#27 Perfect Coffee

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#28 Faucet Design Saves Water By Swirling It Into Beautiful Patterns

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#29 Perfect Match

#30 This Shelf, These Books

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#31 We Found Our Guide Book Cover On The Appalachian Trail

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#32 I Can’t Stop Looking At It

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#33 Camouflaged Shoes At The Discount Store

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#34 This Bundle Of Pencils At A Library

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#35 Landed A Job Where My OCD Fits Right In

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#36 Natural Spiral

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#37 Shadow Lines Up Perfectly With The Sidewalk

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#38 The Way This Grass Field Was Cut

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#39 The Arrangement Of These Tomatoes

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#40 The Perfect Apple

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Graduates At Kyoto University Are Allowed To Put On Any Outfit To Receive Diploma, And Here Are 20 Pics Of Their Best Apparel

What comes to your mind when you see or hear the word “graduation”? You might think of students sporting all black, with mortarboards and graduation gowns. Perhaps, you’ll also imagine them falling in line, waiting for their names to be called to receive their diploma.

But that’s boring! Most graduations in the world are so monotonous that they’re quite predictable. So the folks out there at the University of Kyoto decided to put a twist on their graduation rites by allowing their students to dress up however they like. The results? Well, if we hadn’t told you the context, you would think they’re Halloween costume parties! Scroll down below to see the most extravagant costumes these students students wore to their graduation!

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