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Geek Culture / The Lowest Depth of Depravity on the Internet to Date?

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Libervurto
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I don't know if you guys have even heard of KOTW but I was so shocked by the behaviour of some people that I felt the need to show it. I know there are some nasty people on the internet but I've never seen anything like this before: a massive scale harassment by supporters of shoenice22 (currently 1st place) on courtneypants (2nd place).
Just look at the amount of hateful comments on this video
shoenice appears to be encouraging it too. I am totally baffled by the hate stirred up for no apparent reason.

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I read a lot of comments like that, but I have never met a person that behaves like that in real life. It's strange behaviour for sure. If my mind started thinking thoughts that were so abusive I would be concerned that I was not well.

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I'll be honest, I couldn't quite figure out what the objective was in "KOTW"? Is it just who can get the most votes?

Quote: "I read a lot of comments like that, but I have never met a person that behaves like that in real life. It's strange behaviour for sure. If my mind started thinking thoughts that were so abusive I would be concerned that I was not well."


I think the reasoning behind that is the "I'm behind a desk" security. The ability to yell things to other people in cyberspace and not having anyone know your true identity (combined with rude people on the internet), seems to create a plethora of people who just abuse that.


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Posted: 7th Jun 2012 04:34 Edited at: 7th Jun 2012 04:36
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I've seen some like that before but it was the sheer volume and lack of provocation that amazed me. If people can get this incensed over a meaningless popularity contest (between a girl who is obsessed with unicorns and a 43-year-old man who eats glue and toilet paper) they have no vested interest in, it makes me worry about what could happen in politics. (The people I clicked on were all of voting age.) Were people always this deranged or is it a recent thing?

Quote: "I'll be honest, I couldn't quite figure out what the objective was in "KOTW"? Is it just who can get the most votes?"

Yeah it's a straightforward popularity contest.

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Quote: "I've seen some like that before but it was the sheer volume and lack of provocation that amazed me. If people can get this incensed over a meaningless popularity contest (between a girl who is obsessed with unicorns and a 43-year-old man who eats glue and toilet paper) they have no vested interest in, it makes me worry about what could happen in politics. (The people I clicked on were all of voting age.) Were people always this deranged or is it a recent thing?"


Maybe this is just the inner old guy in me speaking, but I hate my generation of teens/adults (16-24), were really ignorant...

...in most of my cases of young adults like this, it's actually looked down upon to be an individualist and possess high levels of intelligence. The only reason I bring that up is because of the age group on that page, and generally most of them are doing it because it's "cool" and they're following the crowds. So if you think about all of those people of KOTW it's basically like a snowball effect. You get 10 people to like you and you just keep shoving yourself out there and eventually people are eventually going to know you (although I still don't see the point of KOTW).

[/rant over]

Really though, I think it's just a temporary maturity level thing. The'll grow out of this, and from what I've seen these people just are desperate for attention because they want to be known (or get the money).

It seems to be a subconscious thing that humans do by wanting to know. You'd like it if your posts got 1000+ likes versus 10+ likes on Facebook right? Well it just seems to be the same thing as every other popularity contest (if you do use Facebook, I'm sure you've seen those "Like if you EAT THIS FOOD!" posts which get upwards of 90,000+ likes and they're the same basic thing.

[/confused now]

Still don't entirely understand it, my guess so far is, if you're KOTW, you get fame and money, but you'll have to whore yourself out to get it.


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Posted: 7th Jun 2012 07:45
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She was actually quite entertaining, I expected one of those with the camera down by their boobies...


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Yeah I think she's cool, have you seen the guy though? He is CRRAAAAAAAZY, and not in a good way.

The internet just gives a voice to these idiots who would otherwise be out in the yard throwing rocks, I suppose they've always been there. I thought humans were more intelligent than that. What made them so dumb and angry?

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Posted: 7th Jun 2012 10:46
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Quote: "What made them so dumb and angry?"


The internet.

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*silly tune* The internet is really really great....

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Posted: 7th Jun 2012 11:29
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Both of those people are stupid. The girl was mildly amusing for a few seconds but after that she's just irritating. The guy's clearly a degenerate with a mental problem. But most of all...

This is a stupid competition. Just because some site calls you King Of The Web doesn't make you king of the web - or anything. Actually no, it makes you king of something; King Of The Stupid along with your "Legion Of Stupid" (the followers). It's shows like this that really bring out humanity's idiocy. I'm not gonna point fingers but let's face it, this is the kinda thing this generation lap up.

Of course that's just my humblest-humble-ever opinion

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Quote: "This is a stupid competition. Just because some site calls you King Of The Web doesn't make you king of the web - or anything. "


It's really just about the money..

Take TB for example, he was running for it, just so he could win money to build that water thingy in africa <really awesome project>


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Posted: 7th Jun 2012 12:41 Edited at: 7th Jun 2012 12:42
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That's depravity? While searching for gore reference images for Carnage, I would often stumble upon real wounds. I'd skip those by and concentrate on the fake ones, because I'm not a big fan of seeing real people injured! However, while looking for gore I happened upon a pic I thought was fake of a guy with his head blown off by a shotgun. Clicked it and ended up on a forum full to the brim of people laughing and joking about real dead people and how amazingly funny it is to see somebody's brains all over the road, and replying with even more horrific pictures from their 'collection'.

A bit of bitching on YouTube is absolutely nothing! The Internet is full of people with zero humility and compassion who love seeing other people hurt.

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Quote: "how amazingly funny it is to see somebody's brains all over the road"
Amazing that someone can find that 'funny'. I think that example, with being on the road referring to a car accident, is horrific. Back in early december I saw some horrific pictures of a fatal car accident and it haunts me in a huge way to this day. Amazing how someone can laugh about that. Let's face it: the human race is the worst thing a human could possibly think of.

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Posted: 7th Jun 2012 12:53
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For those aware of 4chan probably know about /b/, never clicked on it, but I know it's reputation, which is why I've never clicked on it. There's some sick people out there.

The YouTube community, it's mostly insane people and people being d-bags to one and another, I don't think that's new, hence I avoid reading YouTube comments. I just enjoy the video I'm watching, assuming I've not ended up on the weird part of YouTube, then I probably won't enjoy it, but question myself, "why on earth are you watching this?"

I think as far as the internet goes, this isn't so bad. It's stupid, incredibly dumb and helps me lose my faith in humanity, but not so bad in internet terms.


And talk of searching gore, I ended up researching shark attacks for a writing project and well, some pretty unpleasant images there, but I didn't come across any sick forums where people celebrate the gore. I was hoping for facts without the pictures.

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Ah but 4chan is just as likely to build them up and tear them down for a laugh.

An there all hipster *insert long over winded insult* idiots.

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Quote: "I'm not a big fan of seeing real people injured!"

Yeah, it's basically gore-porn. No, literally some idiots get off on it. Personally it neither shocks nor excites me (I've spent my life in hospitals, I did first aid and biology in high school and one of my uncles used to let my cousin and I watch NPU-18 films from the ages of 5 and 6 respectively) and I fail to see how some people can spend hours downloading pictures of that instead of playing h-games :p ...Not that I play h-games...

Quote: ""why on earth are you watching this?" "

Pretty much what I was thinking about two and a half hours ago when I saw Shoenice squeezing sun lotion from his nipple and eating it. I was like WTF, is this guy mentally retarded. Couldn't even get through the entire clip because of how pathetic it was.

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I thought Boogie won some kind of king of the web, or was that just a king of youtube?
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Quote: "For those aware of 4chan probably know about /b/, never clicked on it, but I know it's reputation, which is why I've never clicked on it."


Rule #1 - Do not talk about /b/
Rule #2 - Do NOT talk about /b/

Seriously though, I don't see why it's so bad? It's just an off-topic board. That said, I've never visited it before either so...

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Quote: "For those aware of 4chan probably know about /b/, never clicked on it, but I know it's reputation, which is why I've never clicked on it."


Quote: "Seriously though, I don't see why it's so bad? It's just an off-topic board. That said, I've never visited it before either so..."


...Neither have I. Nobody here has ever visited /b/ riiiight?

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Ofcourse not, you think I'm crazy?

Just the story's of the place make me scared. Much rather stay on /v/
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I have never ever visited 4chan =3=


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Quote: "Seriously though, I don't see why it's so bad? It's just an off-topic board. That said, I've never visited it before either so..."


It's "Random" and it's marked under the 18+ Misc section. From what I hear, the kind of content they post can be pretty sick, it's not all they post, but generally one people encourage you to avoid.

Obviously, I could be misinformed, I mean what 'another guy said' is not exactly reliable.

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Quote: " I mean what 'another guy said' is not exactly reliable."


Damn, it's not?!

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At least some other guy tells me.

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Quote: " I don't see why it's so bad? It's just an off-topic board. That said, I've never visited it before either so..."

haha go there and find out. It's mostly tasteless jokes (some of which are actually hilarious), shocker porn, disgusting images of injuries and horribleness (2girls1cup, zippo cat... I don't want to name any more Q_Q)

There are some funny parts, but it's mostly stuff you don't want to see.

But no, I think there's way more depravity on the internet.

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Quote: "There are some funny parts, but it's mostly stuff you don't want to see. "
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Quote: " Nobody here has ever visited /b/ riiiight? "

Unfortunately for me, my friends knew about /b/ and tricked me into clicking a bit.ly link straight to the heart of /b/. I think I erased my history and cache three times, just to make sure it was gone.

Youtube might be the domain of trolls and immature d-bags, but 4chan is the real seedy underbelly of the internet.

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But trolls are half the reason the internet is so amusing >:


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Did someone say troll?



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There not hatefull coments left by people,there stupid coments left by a bunch of kid spammers. This is what happens when kids are allowed to post on places like you tube with no parent controll.

I got into a lot of fights with people,till I one day found out they where a bunch of imature kids,I say imature,not to insult the kids here.

Most kids here are easy going and respectfull.

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Quote: "This is what happens when kids are allowed to post on places like you tube with no parent controll.
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what makes me afraid is that most of these are not kids anymore, they are grownups with the brainsize of a pea, 90% of mankind, sorry to say.
and its not new, its not from up the internet or actual generation.
remember schoolyard, nothing has changed since that time.^^ some few nice people, rest are idiots in one or another way.

i remember rotten-dot-com around 15-20 years ago, the very first (official) porn/splatter/snuff-site. i dont know anybody who has NOT first visited this site when he finally got web-access
("now it works, do you wanna see something really sick?" "yay, of course!").^^

thats how humans function: curiousity, stupidity and egomanic behavior in combination with crowd-following. internet just gives you the chance to see all the idiots over the world, not just on your playground.

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Posted: 8th Jun 2012 12:20 Edited at: 8th Jun 2012 12:58
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Heck I'm sure even some of them have a brain, they just want to make things unpleasant for other people and therefore troll them.

Quote: "haha go there and find out. It's mostly tasteless jokes (some of which are actually hilarious), shocker porn, disgusting images of injuries and horribleness (2girls1cup, zippo cat... I don't want to name any more Q_Q)"


So I'm not wrong. I've also had the displeasure of watching 2girls1cup. You know those reaction videos of it on YouTube? Somebody in my flat at Uni wanted to film one (I don't know if he ever uploaded it). Admittedly I was the guy guarding the door so nobody could escape the depravity, but still, it was something I'd rather have not seen. If you're even tempted to do it out of curiosity, don't. I'm sure our reaction shots were hilarious though.

As Schroedinger no doubt once said, 'curiosity killed the cat', and well, combine that with the internet and that cat is deader than dead.

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Yes... The internet allows access to way more information than one may want, and if you don't take control of your curiosity and use common sense, you will regret it... As do I.

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Quote: "There not hatefull coments left by people,there stupid coments left by a bunch of kid spammers."


still gonna say thats amusing..

Quote: "I got into a lot of fights with people"


I do that all the time, especially on youtube, once they start swearing it becomes SO amusing <3


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Quote: "I do that all the time, especially on youtube, once they start swearing it becomes SO amusing <3"


I must admit 'trolling trolls' can be a guilty pleasure, I tend not to bother posting many comments on YouTube, when it is, it's usually to reasonably state my opinion, but normally I keep my distance from the comments.

Same applies to ragers on an online game, they'll start swearing and insulting people calling them all 'noobs' who can't play and so the trolling begins and love the phrase 'learn to play' so much they've abbreviated it (l2p). I actually got an apology in World of Warcraft for it, I wasn't even doing one of the Kyle Broflovski(from South Park) speeches that I tend to do here.

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Okay my title might have been an exaggeration but I've never seen such fervently loyal and dedicated imbeciles, makes me worry about if they put their "minds" to something dangerous.

Can't we get rid of these stupid people or just cut off their internet connections? It really irritates me to see such rudeness go unpunished. And this jerk might even win this competition which sends a horrible message. I've started voting because I don't appreciate bullying.

I've heard about some sick things on the internet and even on youtube there are videos of car-crashes but I didn't realise it was widespread. What is wrong with people? Seriously I don't know how we managed to lift ourselves out of anarchy with people like that. It makes me feel disgusting just being part of the same species.

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The internet: where people come to show their true colours. Everything you say has no consequence, a guy isn't going to punch you in the face because you called him a tosser and sharing your actual opinions only means anonymous people will judge you for it. You don't have live up to any of your social skills on the internet, unless of course you're on a forum that actually has rules for such behaviour, like this one.

It is irritating when you encounter it.

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I think this is an appropriate time to share a thought on human nature: Imagine the most incredible technology that could ever be invented, now imagine the worst possible use for it: that is the future.

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Damn you and your cucumbery sales pitch you digitally created 3d hologram of Billy Mays!

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Quote: "I've also had the displeasure of watching 2girls1cup."


Quote: "Yes... The internet allows access to way more information than one may want"


Hahaha, brings back fond memories of my first "goatse". If you dunno what that is, Google Images won't really help you as the original source image has been buried by millions of "remixes" (I just checked to see if I could find it - not to post it but more to see if anyone who hadn't seen it would be able to dig it up). Anyhow, it was the in thing to shock your friends with back in the day and a mate of mine scarred my mind with it (I was still green back then and "sick things" still affected me). That was prolly the worst I'd seen up until then.

Quote: "Imagine the most incredible technology that could ever be invented, now imagine the worst possible use for it"

Ultimate Surveillance Systems
Bacterial-sized spy cameras.
OSes that only work when connected to the OS-maker's site.
Locked systems that run 100% online in a cloud.
All electronic devices connected to the web.
And "Internet ID" required to use any internet connections.
Enforced total telecommunication interception.
Total online information filtering (with no more paper books).
GPS tracking via your cellphone.
GPS logging via your cellphone.

Game:


But far worse: Nano-machines. Hell, that trumps all. Assassinate people from anywhere in the world by "hacking" them. Listen in on their conversations, see through their eyes, feel what they feel. We're and indulgent voyeuristic society that's at the peak of its decadence so we'll walk into this embracing it. We're too busy being "people" that we won't have the will to stop it. That aside, we're also stupid and if the leaders tell us too, we'll do it.

...I don't wanna think of the future, it's too depressing. I'll insulate myself in my little bubble and when the time comes and it gets too bad, I'll unplug and return to nature. Maybe a little log cabin in the woods somewhere near a lake... If there're any unspoilt places left by then

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