RE: Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread
July 9, 2019 at 11:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2019 at 11:49 pm by A. Secular Human.)
(July 8, 2019 at 11:40 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: This might not be so light-hearted, but I certainly find this humorous. It all started with this To Catch a Predator clip:
Yes, this guy's screen-name was Canirapeyouanally. He's a vile excuse for a human being, but that screenname strikes me as hilarious for several reasons:Okay, full disclosure, I remember it more from YMS' Cool Cat Saves the Kids review than my memories of my mother watching it, but I was recently inspired to look it up again, and I was amazed by what I found.
- "Can I rape you anally?" is an oddly-phrased request.
- The simple fact that it sounds like he's asking (politely) for permission to do something that is, by definition, done without the other person's consent.
- This dude is telegraphing his ill intentions so blatantly that it almost seems impossible to believe he'd be so Stupid Evil.
No, not more of this guy's deeds, and that's not why I posted it here. The first result that wasn't a YouTube video was the Twitter search for the hashtag #canirapeyouanally.
Once you get past the first screen, you start seeing something strange. On 8 May 2011 (and to a lesser extent, on 20 March of the same year), I think this episode reaired sometime around then, because the name started to trend, and from all the posts that started to appear, well, to quote Mikey Chappell during the first wave, "#[b]CanIrapeyouanally[/b] is trending because everybody is tweeting about how #[b]canIrapeyouanally[/b] is trending. It's logic bitches." That didn't stop people from doing even more posts like "WHAT THE FUCK??!!!!?!! WHY is #[/b] trending?!?!! SOMEONE please tell me!!"
Wow. They got a hashtag to trend solely because people were asking why it was trending. There's got to be a name for that phoenomenon.
It's similar to losers that are famous for being famous. Paris Hilton, and the Kardashians come to mind. Wastes of oxygen, the whole lot of them.
Disappointing theists since 1968!