I hate the internet.

December 7, 2005 8:44 PM

The internet jumps the shark. It's done. Game over. There's no turning back.
There's no getting past it. Sorry guys, it's time to move on.
posted by jcterminal (39 comments total)

Well, it was a good run while it lasted. Good bye, everyone.
posted by interrobang at 8:54 PM on December 7, 2005

well meta filter hadnt until you posted that
posted by chuckforthought.com at 8:58 PM on December 7, 2005

I don't get it.
posted by mazola at 8:59 PM on December 7, 2005

Okay, what's next?
posted by Robot Johnny at 9:00 PM on December 7, 2005

CH₄ → Au
posted by rob511 at 9:04 PM on December 7, 2005

Yeah, but where else can you click and do this..huh..tell me..where!!!!

Yah I thought so..punk beatch!!
posted by Mr Bluesky at 9:04 PM on December 7, 2005

Hate to say this, but I believe I recognize the voice of the laughing person in the clips as D. Sanchez of Bangbus 'fame'.
posted by Kickstart70 at 9:06 PM on December 7, 2005

Yay teh interweb 2.0!
posted by mph at 9:06 PM on December 7, 2005

GOD...DAMN...WHY...DID...I...LAUGH...AT...FARTING....AGAIN
posted by Captaintripps at 9:08 PM on December 7, 2005

Heh.
posted by AwkwardPause at 9:12 PM on December 7, 2005

So, anything good on television tonight?
posted by TwelveTwo at 9:12 PM on December 7, 2005

jcterminal,
I think you've just proved the Peak Internet Theory.
posted by Opposite George at 9:13 PM on December 7, 2005

Wait! Peak Internet? We are running out of Internet?!
posted by TwelveTwo at 9:18 PM on December 7, 2005

Them internets can't jump the shark, they're too busy giving birth to new sharks, Fonzies and ramps. The guys in this post are just assholes. Burning hot assholes.
posted by Ohdemah at 9:21 PM on December 7, 2005

We are running out of Internet?!
People are gonna panic. There's gonna be gold riots, atonal music, political chaos, mass suicide...
posted by Opposite George at 9:27 PM on December 7, 2005

that was the greatest video i've ever seen.
posted by keswick at 9:28 PM on December 7, 2005

I am now three minutes closer to my death.

thanks metafilter.
posted by lalochezia at 9:32 PM on December 7, 2005

I knew that as soon as I paid to join Metafilter it would go to shit.

It's all my fault.

Girls in bikinis being shot with paintballs and now farts.

[sigh]

When did metafilter become collegehumor.com?
posted by MasonDixon at 9:34 PM on December 7, 2005

I was always feel bad for laughing at fart humor, but fuck, that was funny.
posted by Mijo Bijo at 9:35 PM on December 7, 2005

Mason Dixon, I know exactly how you feel.
On the one hand, I love being able to participate.
On the other hand, it's because of people like us that things are sucking more and more.
posted by nightchrome at 9:41 PM on December 7, 2005

I think what you meant to post was MetaFilter jumps the shark.

Kinda like a self fulfulling prophecy I guess.
posted by gagglezoomer at 9:50 PM on December 7, 2005

The end guy was hard.
posted by cribcage at 9:53 PM on December 7, 2005

i hate you
posted by ackeber at 9:59 PM on December 7, 2005

Jumping the shark means "the moment when a pop culture icon changes radically and thus begins a long slow decline in quality." Given that the first post I ever read on the first bbs I ever logged into in like 1984 was in fact a fart joke, I'm not sure how this qualifies.
posted by hob at 10:00 PM on December 7, 2005

A key nuance in the metaphor is that the shark was supposed to have eaten it, yet it managed to elude a timely death and carry on well past the point of dignity.
posted by scarabic at 10:15 PM on December 7, 2005

CH₄ → Au

Indeed.
Or
H₂S + CH₄ → Au
posted by jouke at 10:37 PM on December 7, 2005

TwelveTwo, we're not running out of internet. We're just not going to be able to keep producing cheap, effective internet at the same rate. SORREE D00D
posted by jenovus at 10:38 PM on December 7, 2005

I like the string thing.
posted by meh at 10:59 PM on December 7, 2005

I didn't breathe through my nose for the duration of that movie.
posted by quite unimportant at 11:01 PM on December 7, 2005

Kickstart 70: I thought so too at first, but wasn't sure by the end... but I don't want to watch it again.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:08 PM on December 7, 2005

I laughed, once.

Then I slowly realized two things. One, the soundtrack is totally cheesy porn music. Second, someone out there is totally bending the wookie to this.

I'm pretty sure I'll never laugh again.
posted by loquacious at 11:20 PM on December 7, 2005

Second, someone out there is totally bending the wookie to this.

O NOSE!!!1!!11
Cream of mushroom soup just shot out of my nose.
And I didn't even get it on tape to, you know, save the internets.
posted by zerokey at 11:32 PM on December 7, 2005

Well, jumping the shark does involve a liquid->gas phase change.
posted by telstar at 11:51 PM on December 7, 2005

Gay soft porn for guys with a fart fetish?

And how did I miss girls in bikinis being shot with paint balls?

The rotating string this is cool -- it reminds me of Calc. II and all the integrals involving surfaces of revolutions (and volumes).
posted by teece at 12:01 AM on December 8, 2005

There she lay a broken collection of human flotsam; the once exuberant face of Sharon lie gazing at the ceiling where I left her. I look to her and sigh with regret. For I had to make my own pot roast now.
posted by thirteenkiller at 12:02 AM on December 8, 2005

The point wasn't that the video is funny. The point was that the video is so fucking retarded that there is no hope for the internet to recover; it has been populated so thoroughly with tasteless idiots and mental midgets that there is no chance for its survival.

I think.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 12:19 AM on December 8, 2005

a lot of it looked and sounded like he was applying a tazer to his ass. Gave me a bit of comfort.
posted by boo_radley at 2:14 AM on December 8, 2005

The link's broken.
I can't watch it.

Thank fuck.
posted by slimepuppy at 3:17 AM on December 8, 2005

The proof that the internet is broken is broken.
posted by graventy at 3:32 AM on December 8, 2005