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Here are the eight online communities that killed our adventurous spirit...

nuclear_soup — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:59:06 -0800

The Eight Strangest Communites On the Internet. (via)

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:05:31 -0800

Along those lines, I was cracking up when a friend found this thread at flickr. "Discussing Inappropriate Photos in Crotch Shots" There exists a group that is nothing but shots of dude's crotches, but NO PENISES ALLOWED.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:09:53 -0800

Okay, I was maintaining my jaded internet hipster poise until the Boytaurs.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:11:01 -0800

Man, I'm hung like a... oh yeah, that's right.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:11:33 -0800

No matter what your fandom or fetish may be, it can always be made even weirder by adding Jesus.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:12:22 -0800

Boytaurs is nothing. I'm really into Horsetaurs, which is a horse with an additional back end of a horse on their back end. Don't judge me.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:13:15 -0800

Yeah, the boytaurs thing actually came as a surprise. Never heard of that particular mindmelter before. I think my favourite bit was the reformed 'furvert' who said he was going to buy a fursuit just to remind himself what he didn't want. Yeah, and Ted Haggard is visiting masseurs from the back pages of the gay newspaper to remind himself how much he doesn't like it when oh yeah shove it in me, yeah, harder, fuck my.. I mean I don't like it! This is awful!

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:13:49 -0800

Amazing they could whittle it down to only eight.

By: athenian

athenian — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:14:20 -0800

I had to look up the word 'yiff'. Am I still cool enough to be on MeFi?

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:22:37 -0800

This is what Cracked came up with? It's what you would come up with if you had only ever spent 20 minutes trolling the web Cracked has no idea how weird the Internets is.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:23:36 -0800

I agree with the jaded until boytaurs thing, but I would like to note that the boytaurs in the article aren't half-horse. They are ALL BOY. Except with 4 legs. W.T.F.

By: lodurr

lodurr — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:28:42 -0800

This bit cracked me up: That means that people create an account, build a house for their in-game avatar to masturbate in, and then they stop playing and never come back. What does that mean for you, the curious, newbie player? It means that walking around Second Life is like walking around in some weird, virtual post-apocalyptic zombie movie, only instead of encountering zombies, you occasionally stumble across some dude dressed up like a mechanical teddy bear having sex with a giant cat.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:28:44 -0800

I agree with the jaded until boytaurs thing, but I would like to note that the boytaurs in the article aren't half-horse. They are ALL BOY. Except with 4 legs. W.T.F. Quadrupedos.com was already registered.

By: creasy boy

creasy boy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:29:43 -0800

Some of those boytaurs really are half-horse, if you go to the site. And some of them have four arms and three dicks and have nothing to do with horses. The free play of fantasy seems to be the rule there. If I'm already into the third page of boytaur images, does that make me a pervert?

By: everichon

everichon — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:35:30 -0800

does that make me a pervert? Hoo yes.

By: creasy boy

creasy boy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:35:47 -0800

And upon doing further research: a lot of these boytaurs seem to have photoshopped themselves fucking themselves and then added an extra pair of legs onto one or two of themselves. I thought I had heard of every fetish, but I had not.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:36:34 -0800

This is what Cracked came up with? It's what you would come up with if you had only ever spent 20 minutes trolling the web Actually, it's what you come up with when you spend 20 minutes going through Something Awful's Weekend Web feature, and then stick what you found on two pages so you get more ad impressions.

By: signalnine

signalnine — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:42:51 -0800

lame.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:50:44 -0800

Ice Chewers previously on Metafilter.

By: bunnytricks

bunnytricks — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:59:01 -0800

Does Cracked actually pay for a staff or do they just recruit writers by tracing back "zany" email forwards until they find the primordial soup it festered from, scoop a sample up in a test tube, and then culture it in agar until enough corherent strings of text appear to keep Google from downranking cracked.com as a spam blog?

By: adamrice

adamrice — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:01:16 -0800

The boytaurs are just one example of the conjoined-twin photoshop fetishes out there (who knew?). But my favorite has to be people who fetishizes chicks with headphones. There's something so...innocent about it as a fetish.

By: Henry C. Mabuse

Henry C. Mabuse — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:01:22 -0800

What about the fish fuckers?

By: jason's_planet

jason's_planet — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:12:07 -0800

But even based on our limited pool of knowledge, we're pretty sure that Jesus never said anything about dressing up like an evil white trash clown.

By: davy

davy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:14:04 -0800

"The Internet is a big place filled with sweaty, smelly creatures huddling in the dark drinking Mountain Dew and furiously posting on forums." Hey, that was supposed to be a secret!

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:20:18 -0800

Seriously fucking lame. (Except for the Juggalos for Jesus.)

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:23:35 -0800

My favourite bit: I have been free from yiff for 6 months and 1week. I have no desire to go back now, but my parents don't understand that. I am going to buy a fursuit soon, just to remind myself about why I never want to go back to the way I was...

By: vorfeed

vorfeed — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:24:07 -0800

Boytaurs, maybe, but slash fanfic? C'mon. It's probably not "the strangest thing on the internet" if it actually pre-dates the internet. Especially if it pre-dated the internet... at Trek conventions. WHOA CRAZY NO ONE HAS HEARD OF THAT BEFORE.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:33:41 -0800

Oh, come on. I can come up with 8 weirder ones just by googling for "barney fetish."

By: wanderingmind

wanderingmind — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:46:47 -0800

It's easy enough to stay jaded and detached about people like this, but imagine how it must feel to be one. Especially with articles like this one popping up every so often to remind you just how unforgivably weird you and the friends you never would've found otherwise are. The fact is, some people enjoy things that the rest of us find bizarre. As long as they're not hurting anyone in the process, why not just leave them alone and stop making them feel miserable about themselves? Sorry to trot out the tired old "don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes" line, but someone had to say it. I fully expect to get jumped on now by people wondering which of these groups I belong to, and why I'm so defensive about it.

By: oddman

oddman — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:50:10 -0800

wow, that 4chan image board is pretty excellent.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:00:22 -0800

Jesustaurs? They all smell like Cool Ranch Doritos

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:05:44 -0800

Oh now, WanderingMind...just admit that you were the giant mechanical bear on Second Life. Come on, growl for me, you big teddy! Hee.

By: samsara

samsara — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:08:45 -0800

wow, that 4chan image board is pretty excellent. That's what they all say at first glance, be prepared for it to turn on you though. (and God help you if you find out about any of the other chan boards...ugh)

By: maryh

maryh — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:15:26 -0800

About 5 years ago I stumbled upon (really, it was an accident) a Yahoo Group devoted to people who liked to pleasure themselves while looking at images of the bare feet of male cartoon characters. 2D animation only, thanks. Disney a plus. I'm sure they're still out there but no way am I going to have THAT in my search history.

By: white_devil

white_devil — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:20:38 -0800

I usually look at crank dot net at least once a month to remind me that I'm relatively sane.

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:21:07 -0800

Of course, more boytaur feet are always welcome, and while boytaurs often decide to add more legs, many—if not most—boytaurs have feet hanging from the wrists of their muscular arms... four-legged and six-footed! Nothing beats the caress of a wristfoot, warm and gentle, soft and sensitive while heavy and firm. The very touch brings arousal, as a boytaur takes his boytaurfriend's face between his wristfeet, framing it gently between the sensitive soles, to kiss him, as their multiple hardons grow heavy and drooling between their many legs.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:24:56 -0800

Metafilter: you occasionally stumble across some dude dressed up like a mechanical teddy bear having sex with a giant cat

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:28:32 -0800

don't judge a ~~man~~ boytaur until you've ~~walked~~ galloped a mile in his horseshoes

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:33:40 -0800

They found 4chan but not Gaia Online?

By: quin

quin — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:33:44 -0800

Weird? I visit those eight daily. You wanna see some really sick shit? Check out the freaks who photograph themselves having sex with ceiling mounted fire extinguishers, I mean there are some perversions I just can't abide. I only hung out in their forums for a couple of months before I'd had enough. Now I'm rolling with the sprinkler-sex-for-Jesus crowd. They are much cooler.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:38:54 -0800

heh, boytaurs is so 2003 - cited in this thread on human equine transformation.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:08:36 -0800

The actual sites? Meh. The picture of the fat boy licking his own manboob in the comments? Awesome.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:19:24 -0800

Sorry to trot out the tired old "don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes" I'm now a mile away from these shoeless idiots. Is it ok to judge them now?

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:38:52 -0800

I felt bad because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no cock.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:40:29 -0800

That was an awkward meet-up, wasn't it?

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:53:33 -0800

Nothing beats the caress of a wristfoot I am trying to think of something snarky to say about wristfeet, but I'm completely dumbfounded.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:56:22 -0800

This joint's got sole.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:04:54 -0800

I dunno, I think I could easily come up with some stranger communities. -Deep Sinking -N.A.C.F.T. (National Association of Cattle Foot Trimmers) -G.I.R.B. (Girls in Rubber boots) -American Cornhole Association -N.B.A.C. (Neckbrace Appreciation Klub) -Breatharian Insitute of America -Radical Movement for Rebetiko Dechiotification and Bouzouki Detetrachordization -Christian Deerhunter Associations -NUSPA (National Unidentified Skin Parasite Assocition) -Ugly Bass Players -presidential prayer team -International Association of People Who Dine Over the Sink -Luxurient Flowing Hair Club for Scientists -The Temple of Prometheus -Liberated Christians Polyamory, Swing, Biblical, Sybian Cyber Center

By: Lord_Pall

Lord_Pall — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:17:51 -0800

Didn't we spend yesterday talking about japanese people fucking manta rays? maybe we should point the ray of introspection at OURSELVES!

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:26:11 -0800

Just don't fuck the ray of introspection.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:15:11 -0800

I was going to point to the site on people who fetishize inflating their stomachs with air or water to achieve the most engorged belly possible, but now I (thankfully) can't find it.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:23:15 -0800

In Australia, the ray of introspection fucks you - through the heart!

By: mhoye

mhoye — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:36:00 -0800

Of course, more boytaur feet are always welcome Centipedophilia?

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:46:26 -0800

Mmm. Pretty lukewarm decisions, I agree. ::sniff:: It's still too soon for the Irwin jabs. My heart still hasn't healed.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:51:57 -0800

Ok, the boytaurs site was pretty awesome, but I can't beileve they broke Rule #1. THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY! desu! desu! desu! desu! desu! desu! desu!

By: fungible

fungible — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:57:19 -0800

Cracked doesn't care what the 20 weirdest sites are, or the 10 wildest chase scenes, or the 15 most embarrassing film moments, or whatever. They've just locked into the internet phenomena that any "Top Ten List" will make it to the front page of Digg.

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:21:13 -0800

fungible: and riding it all the way to the bank. Speaking of digg, I think I saw this there a couple weeks ago? NO DIGG

By: Crabby Appleton

Crabby Appleton — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:45:55 -0800

Mantafilter?

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:42:27 -0800

It's still too soon for the Irwin jabs. My heart still hasn't healed. The sting is still there for me too, but I catch a ray of hope from time to time. why not just leave them alone and stop making them feel miserable about themselves? There's some weird shit that people enjoy that seems to be just that: weird shit, that people joyously enjoy. But there's other stuff that just seems sad and loserly; the sort of thing you embrace not because you really like it but because you want to externalize your loserly feelings onto something outside yourself, or because your own life is so drab and awful that you need to disappear into something else to feel a little bit better. And in one of those "I don't know how I know, but I know" things, furries4christ are in that second group.

By: Many bubbles

Many bubbles — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:16:33 -0800

Pfff, forget slashfanfiction.com. Try the Very Wrong Slash LJ community. Featuring: Goofus/Gallant (Gallant is Aroused; Goofus is Horny) Azathoth/Nyarlathotep Arby's Oven Mitt/Hamburger Helper Hand And many more! (Of course, that's not exactly the Weirdest of the Web, either, but... ehhhh....)

By: mkhall

mkhall — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:26:31 -0800

I was enjoying this thread, secure in my knowledge that none of this was really new to me. Then Many bubbles has to come along with that Goofus/Gallant thing, and well... [tips hat] Thank you.

By: vito90

vito90 — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:59:10 -0800

Everytime I come across discussions of weirdness I think about the time I got to my baseball game early and sat in the bleachers to watch the previous game. A couple young skater-type kids walked up. They were wearing these HUGE flaired-at-the-leg jeans and had purple hair and great big belts and just looked really kind of silly. The guy I had sat next to in the bleachers leaned into me and said "look what those weirdos are wearing!" And I realized I was sitting there in tight, tight baseball pants, and the legs of the pants ended at the knee where they gave way to stirrups and spiked cleats. I was wearing a baseball cap backwards and a skin-tight Under Armour T-shirt under a jersey that had the logo of a snarling Chili Pepper. And I couldn't help but wonder who the weirdo really was.

By: Many bubbles

Many bubbles — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:59:54 -0800

*takes a little bow*

By: Avenger

Avenger — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:44:48 -0800

But there's other stuff that just seems sad and loserly; the sort of thing you embrace not because you really like it but because you want to externalize your loserly feelings onto something outside yourself, or because your own life is so drab and awful that you need to disappear into something else to feel a little bit better. Well I would disagree if this didn't describe the entirety of early 21st century American society. Or the human condition in a nutshell.

By: Kinbote

Kinbote — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:12:25 -0800

Um, yeah, all of the above, but why did it fall to me to mention Portal of Evil?

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:20:46 -0800

I'm a member of seven of those sites (that's right, FUCK 4CHAN!).

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:14:16 -0800

Apparently this was posted to MoFi also. In the comments is this relevant video link: If business meetings functioned like internet communities.

By: chuq

chuq — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:11:49 -0800

I have to say, that amidst this group of weirdness Second Life seems to be like the old Sesame Street song, "One of these things is not like the other."

By: Many bubbles

Many bubbles — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:51:48 -0800

Philomathoholic, your link seems to have locked up my friend's computer (as in, it played, and then everything locked up and she had to exit out of stuff). So anybody else using Firefox 2.0.0.6 with Adblock on Windows XP might want to watch out for that. Here's the same video on YouTube.

By: Many bubbles

Many bubbles — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:00:00 -0800

have to say, that amidst this group of weirdness Second Life seems to be like the old Sesame Street song, "One of these things is not like the other." Yeah, it's like someone did a "Ten weirdest video games" thing and then the third one was, "Sims 2: You make little people and have them interact with each other! What is UP with that???"

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:29:39 -0800

Philomathoholic, your link seems to have locked up my friend's computer... Sorry, about that. It's from collegehumor.com, maybe they have bad stuff on their site. I've got flash block, but not adblock. I just checked it, and it still works for me.

By: Many bubbles

Many bubbles — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:20:05 -0800

I guess they must. It worked fine for me, but... *shrug*

By: mike3k

mike3k — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:44:05 -0800

Radical Movement for Rebetiko Dechiotification and Bouzouki Detetrachordization does have a point. The kind of crappy fake Rebetiko music you hear at Greek restaurants should be banned.