Have you ever thought to yourself “What would George Washington look like now?” To provide historical context that absolutely no one asked for, the X page History Defined released this picture of George Washington — it should come with its own trigger warning.
While it was intended to show what the Founding Father might have looked like had he been born in the modern era, it instead provides a painstakingly accurate portrait of my own personal sleep paralysis demon. While I’ve seen this sallow-cheeked, dead-eyed figure standing at my bedside at three in the morning, I didn’t expect to be jump-scared by it while checking on the status of world events (its own jump-scare, to be sure)
