Wednesday 1 October 2014

The unfathomable thought processes of posters on the Internet's most popular websites.

Presenting the best and most inexplicable posts from popular websites. All screenshots are edited only for cropping purposes and represent the entirety of the threads at the time of this writing.

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I have no idea who Sid Paxton is, or what this poster was hoping to achieve by posting about him in the Basket Case board. Since doowopfan is convinced that Sid Paxton has been dead since the Great Depression, it's possible that mwschoon was referring to another Sid Paxton, maybe from his high school, who was a fan of Basket Case, or films about a boy and his deformed basket-dwelling companion in general. mwschoon doesn't seem to have replied to doowopfan in the last seven years, so we may never know.

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This is probably my favourite piece of original writing on the Internet. The title "jo oj jo" defies our cultural norms and clickbait expectations by providing no information whatsoever, and the resulting feedback doesn't disappoint. There can be no higher seal of integrity than GCD's top reviewer rank of 5,330,585. Shine on you crazy diamond.

Who were these people? Where did they come from, and where were they going? Questions like that shouldn't keep me up at night, but they invariably do.

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