everybody on ilx complains about reddit

ha, read in a row those read like one of those feneon microstories

what does "be commentin'" mean

I registered for reddit like six years ago; I'll look at the front page now and then, tried to set up subreddits as a way to prise some kind of utility out of the place, failed. I definitely know ppl (non ilx) that READ it for time wasting (cats) but I don't think anyone i know actually "reddits." commenting system is confusing, lots of idiots, etc. many corners best left uninvestigated (in addition to the out and out misogyny and paternalism that mh referenced, there's creepy picture subreddits...which, I actually found out about because of, I think, a link on the front page to the gawker story about same).

I'll admit that I'm not sure I've ever been to SA?

i have been to something awful but that was like twenty years ago when it just pictures of dead people and car wrecks. i'm always a little surprised it's still around as a 'community'

Most of my SA time was about 10 years ago and mostly only to check out the photoshop fridays.

i see that my memory conflicts with wiki, i must be thinking of something else

rotten dot com?

are you thinking of rotten.com?

yeah, rotten.com always seemed a much more respectable source of dead people and car wrecks, though.

I think I've avoided SA for the same reason as goole --- I thought it rotten.com (which as a college student I was required to see at least once)

it was right after the swim test iirc

what was that old website that was just like a list and compendium of awful/horrifying/hilarious websites? it was a black and red scheme, iirc. can totally picture it but can't think of the name.

lol, i have the same rotten.com/something awful confusion

I checked in on Fark.com because of this thread and Good Lord, they're still using "Hilarity Ensues" in every other headline.

seanbaby

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/40496493/Wil+Wheaton+WW.jpg

stile project?

all these late 90s-early 00s websites that were the equivalent of buying a marilyn manson cd at the age of 12

salon.com or slate.com?

the one i'm thinking of wasn't stile project, it was just like links and short descriptions for other batshit sites and personal pages (a whole lot of geocities stuff, iirc). i'm 90% sure its where i first saw peter pan guy.

benicetobears.com ?
memepool.com ?

nah, god this is driving me crazy. this was like very end of the 90s, like about the same period as fatchicksinpartyhats and that original mullet website.

robotwisdom.com ?
r33t.com ?
hell.com ?

how about ... portal of evil?

that's almost definitely portal of evil, which had all the shock sites/early net memes

on that note, does anyone remember that one early meme of...I wanna say it was a Turkish guy whose site was in *wacky* broken English or something? Maher maybe?

xpost

yes, finally, that's it! portal of evil. thank you!

the 'i kiss you' guy? didn't he sue borat?

yeah probably rotten.com i guess

MEMEPOOL! man those guys fucked up.

I always wonder whatever happened to the "Hello my future girlfriend. This is what I sound like." guy. Wondering why he hasn't been contacted by Tosh yet.

we were all so young and naive sigh

xp This: http://twitter.com/mike_blount

(I googled him a while ago... and there he was on Reddit. Full circle etc)

I always wonder whatever happened to the "Hello my future girlfriend. This is what I sound like." guy. Wondering why he hasn't been contacted by Tosh yet.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:00 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

remember my dad walking in as the audio for this finally buffered and kind of trying to explain and him going "that's just sad. this is just sad. you're just sad."

haha

Here is that Reddit AMA:
I was an internet meme: the Hello My Future Girlfriend kid. AMA.

featuring dude's gay.com profile, which sadly does not say "hello my future boyfriend"

wow. so star wars kid is now like the Resident of internet memes. he's the only one that hasn't publicly "come out"/done interviews isn't he?

what was that old website that was just like a list and compendium of awful/horrifying/hilarious websites? it was a black and red scheme, iirc. can totally picture it but can't think of the name.

Fucked Company?

guys, the "popping" sub-reddit

you better describe it because no way I'm blindly just going to any subreddit.

Even 'trees' would look funny here at work.

http://gizmodo.com/5907456/the-9-weirdest-places-in-reddit

uh I think I just found something that's even worse than the cigarbox

unnnnnggghhhhunnnunngggghhhhh

turn back

it's weird how intertwined the ghastliest rotten.coms and gentry of internet culture are.
(the dude who made kickstarter is heavily part of the star wars kid story)

I'd be interested in hearing that - though one of the other co-founders was heavily part of ILX.

on the internet everyone is only two degrees from snuff porn merchant.

on the internet everyone is just the same one guy

re: star wars kid + kickstarter
http://waxy.org/2008/05/star_wars_kid_the_data_dump/

on the internet everyone is just the same one guy

― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:37 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that one guy w/ the big asshole

[–]SeparateCzechs 9 points10 points11 points 4 months ago

Ah. Gizmodo is still mining Reddit for content while simultaneously disparaging Reddit. Well Played.

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