Back in the days before I discovered message boards, I used to frequent Yahoo chat rooms. Those had a shitty signal to noise ratio back in about 1999, and it got worse over the next couple of years. But I persevered. I checked them out a few months ago, and it was jaw-dropping. I’m not sure what language they’re even speaking in there. It’s not even 1337zors. It’s just monkey chatter. So Yahoo has my vote.
IDMB, especially on the page of any recent hit film- Pulp Fiction Sucks. No you suck! Fuck you, Tarantino sucks. and on and on.
Another vote for Youtube. It’s amazing that stupid comments show up on videos you’d never expect it with. I think Youtube should have some kind of option in your profile where you can hide all comments, just so you don’t have to look at that shit.
What’s that one white supremacist board? I’ve seen it mentioned on here before. Anyway, that’s my nomination.
Tie–Metal Sludge w/the Def Leppard OS board. Sheesh.
So that’s where this comment came from.
Ignorance fought.
Well said.
Wow. I’d never heard of 4chan, so I googled it and checked it out.
Why do people spend time there? Especially the /b/ thing? Don’t they realize they’re going to die someday and they only get ONE August 2, 2007? Is this the best way they know of to use that day? It plunges me into existential despair.
Also, I saw a picture of a prolapsed rectum.
Good Christ.
I don’t even want to know.
We are going to need a young priest and an old priest.
The Talkback on Aint It Cool News is full of ignorant, juvenile crap. Makes me want to knock their heads together.
This question remains under discussion??!! C’mon, people!!
End of story. Glad I could help.
Durrrr.
You’re probably thinking of The Weekend Web section on Something Awful. And yeah, they’ve dredged up some doozies. The saddest part is that they’ve been spotlighting between one and three moronic message boards every week for the past four years, and that well never seems to run dry.
People, YouTube is average. It’s the utterly average cross section of the population. Take a deep look because this is what average looks like. Marvel at how insulated you’ve managed to be from all this in your intellectual high castles. This is what the internet democracy promises. if you want to plumb the depths of true stupidity, you have to head to 4chan or one of the other sites mentioned above.
Last time I looked in, a year or so ago, it was 95% spambots posting links to dubious dating and webcam sites. The bots would enter in twos and threes and have fixed conversations with each other, casually dropping in links to said sites. Occasionally some deluded individual would drop by and try to pick up hot_coed_teen_86, but otherwise, no human content at all as far as I could tell.
I find this very disturbing for some reason. From here, it’s a slippery slope to SkyNet or the Matrix. :eek:
FreeRepublic. No, they’re not teenage yuo=fag0t-ing zitbrains. They’re responsible adults spouting bloody-minded reactionary vomitus and high-fiving one another for it.
It might be a bit clearer what you’re referencing if you link to the first appearance of the orlies (though I gather that some of you may prefer to see them in this context).
True. To be fair, there are nut sites on the other side (the 9-11 Forum on Democratic Underground, full of morons who think that “Occam’s Razor” is the brand of box cutter wielded by the hijackers*, springs to mind).
*Except, of course, that there really were no hijackers, and it was all a CIA/Bush/Skull&Bones/Bilderburger/Illuminati setup.
I’m going to have to give Yahoo! Financial Message Boards a plug here. On a series of boards theoretically designated to discusssing a particular Stock symbol, the level of hatred, vengance, stupidity, raw ignorance, and concentrated venomous ignorance is astonishing.
Probably doesn’t rank with 4chan in raw vitriol, but on the Yahoo! boards, those people are supposedly stock-purchasing investors. Your finances are expsed to crap-flingers of that caliber?! It’s astonishing that every year hasn’t been 1929.