Cat Pictures vs. Porn: A pointless argument

I’ve heard it said, or maybe read, that “Pointless arguing is one of the three pillars upon which the Internet is built. The other two are of course cat pictures and porn.”

OK, I read it. Still, it struck me as a reasonable observation.

Now, in the age of VidCon and Youtube, this seems sort of archaic, and music and DIY video may be a bigger deal. But it may still be the case the itnernet is about pointless arguing, cat pix, and pr0n–at least to the old fogies of my generation.

So let’s have the showdown, if it’s not too late, between cat pictures and porn!

Which is more important, and why? Or are they both obsolescent? And what about cute baby pictures?

Feel free to argue pointlessly for pointless arguing.


Personally, I think it’s all ridiculous. The internet exists for webcomics and fanmusic. So there.

How do we classify porn with cats? Or cat porn? And both of those are hopelessly intertwined. Establishing that one is more important than the other creates a worm hole through time that spews porn from one end and cat pictures from the other.

In other words, your proposition is both immutable and unsafe. How dare you?

You mean cat pictures and porn are two separate things?

Porn is my first thought; the internet has really massive changed porn by making vast amounts of porn in all sorts of tastes easily available.

It depends on if you are a furry or not.

Porn, definitely. I know that I’m in danger of being kicked out of the internet for even whispering this, but cat pictures do absolutely nothing for me. I don’t like cats, I don’t have cats, and if cute cat pictures were wiped off the face of the web tomorrow and for the rest of eternity, it wouldn’t change my life one iota.

Porn.

I’m pretty sure the porn industry was the driving force that allows us to enjoy streaming video. That of course led to cool things like netflix, Amazon prime, etc.

I’m not saying we wouldn’t have eventually got there but porn made it happen a lot quicker.
But what happens when you mix kitties with porn? SFW linky

I’ve heard/read that too, but I always thought the internet was for sharing your cosplay pics.

Like this one:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151015671719234&set=a.10151015661769234.429019.740139233&type=3&l=eb98fb48bc&theater

Porn, of course, but also Dummy, you forgot…

Where do pirated music and pirated movies fit in to those choices?

Unless you’re into kitty porn.

:smack: D’oh!

I voted “porn” cause I think that up until 2005 or so, it did drive the Internet. And porn definitely trumps cat pictures.

But now I’d vote “social networking”, followed by “YouTube” and “Wikipedia” tied for second place.

Furry porn! All the way! Yiff! The best of all possible worlds!

You forgot the SDMB.

I’m actually getting bored with porn, I’m alarmed to discover.

You kids nowadays don’t know how good you have it. Back in my day we had to type out our porn in ASCII characters.

Might as well just go out and buy a damned magazine.

The OP is confusing the Internet with the World Wide Web.

The pillar of the Internet is email.

The pillar of the WWW was porn, but now it’s social networking. Twitter and Facebook. I see Youtube as a subcategory of that as well.

And, of course, internet cats are indifferent to porn. (I’m following the two click rule, here, but VERY NSFW page!)

Two sides of the debate:

It’s cats

It’s porn