Rant 119 / It's Not That Bad. It's Worse.

I found this website www.7chan.org yesterday. Full of Internet trash. Of course, even in the rubbish dump, there are sometimes hidden gems to be found. So it is the same with this website. I'd say that 90% of its contents is junk that people need not see, but once in a while I find something funny that is worth the search.

There is porn, but I don't need to go any further into that. Generally, I don't touch such sections since there are usually things that I don't want to see in there. Like Goatse (/shiver). But they have a rather large section of it, so it's worth a mention.

The best section should be their /wp/, or wallpapers section, where users request and post nice wallpapers that are often clean, i.e. no names and websites on them. Took a few of their sky-themed wallpapers.

Their /b/, a.k.a. random section, is the essence of the Internet. That is where all random shit goes, and when I say "shit", I mean shit. To summarize what this section contains in the style of the American netizens, I need only 3 words: "fail" and "EPIC FAIL".

This should describe most of the anonymous users.

But then this is...

So, really, 90% of everything you find is trash. However, there is still that pulling force that makes me want to search for forums like this. It's...



According to Wikipedia, this website is also a "stronghold" of Anonymous. I'm really only interested in their Project Chanology. Though Scientology hasn't affected Singapore yet, thanks to its strict censorship, I'm still somewhat unhappy that it is successful in attaining tax-exempt status in countries like Australia, using the reason that it is a religion.

Fuck that bullshit. Non-violent protests FTW! In some of the protests, they actually rickrolled the Church of Scientology (CoS). Utterly pointless, but funny, thus catches attention.

To understand rickrolling, one must first see the Wiki definition of "rickrolling".

There, if you've clicked on the link, you've just been rickrolled.

If you still don't understand this, imagine you are reading an article on the net, then you spot a link that says something that attracts your eyes, like "New C&C3 Expansion Announced! Click here to see trailer!". You click on it, just like the way you click on this link. All you see is this campy music video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up".

It is basically a trick, a joke. Instead of saying,"You've been tricked!", with this you say," You've been rickrolled!" Thus "rickroll" means "to trick someone into watching the music video of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley". And in the case of Project Chanology, they played the song during the protest, and apparently this is also a form of "rickrolling".






The following picture has a good point...


So that's it for now. Can't put too many pics or it'll take too long to load.