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The case for 'Is It Cake?,' Netflix's new game show

There's something perfect about the fact that almost two years after a meme, Netflix made it into a game show.
April Julian on <em>Is it Cake?, </em>measuring a cake made in the image of a shoe.

If you associate the word "hyper-realistic" with art, you might be surprised by the fact that it is also a subtype of cake. Generally speaking, a hyper-realistic cake is a cake that is designed to be indistinguishable from some other physical object in texture, size, finish, and so forth, such that if you saw it next to the real object it's based on, you couldn't tell the two apart.

They've existed for a long time, but a lot of people first saw hyper-realistic cakes in the summer of 2020, when the started going around, featuring videos in

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