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Life & fun · January 3, 2017

The Office Stare Machine

Every time a character speechlessly breaks the 4th wall.

The Office Stare Machine launched on January 3, 2017 with 83 votes, #557 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

Type in any emotion word in this machine, and discover hundreds of supercuts of stares made by every character in The Office!

The Office Stare Machine showcases every single time a character speechlessly breaks the 4th wall and stares at the camera. It then indexes those stares into an interactive machine encompassing the full range of human emotional expression. Joe Sabia spent 1.5 years finding every single stare and worked with Aaron Rasmussen to manually code each stare into over 800 different emotions in a complexly architected system. It is the sister site of THE OFFICE TIME MACHINE which takes the 1,300 cultural references made and places them in an interactive time machine. Yes, in fact, we made some awards you can give to the various members of the cast based on those patterns. Maybe if we send enough,…from theofficestaremachine.com

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