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Childhood Memories Ruined by the Internet?
An anonymous reader writes "Remember that favorite cartoon you used to get up early every saturday morning to watch? Then remember how that part of your childhood died when you stumbled on that dirty piece of fanart based on it? Codehappy has launched a new site for you. Broken Memories is a website devoted to all the childhoods destroyed by internet fandom. Take a look at some of their discoveries, some of these things are just plain wrong."
Man, I can't look at Batman and Robin and NOT think of the Ambiguously Gay Duo anymore. I miss the days when I was younger and had no awareness of these soul-crushing truths.
Just... wrong. I remember when I was little, running around the house with my Thundercats sword. Unfortunately, I also remember the first time I stumbled across some fan "art" of one of them giving Mumra a blowjob.
I'm going to go curl up in the corner in a fetal position and cry.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
All my childhood memories are circulating around the computers in my life. ... when i got my C64... the first time i fired a CPU... my first Intel 286 reference book...
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
yeah like, i remember my childhood..
/me cries :(
it was a internet filled with nice people.
You were lucky to get an email an hour, news sites weren't filled with dupes, and first-post trolls were unheard of.
the world has changed
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well, now i know where to look for all my smurf hentai
The site is fairly sparse. I bet a google search would turn up many more hits than anything on this site.
Most of my "childhood memories" were ruined simply by me growing up and seeing those cartoons again on cable re-runs.
The crass corporate sponsored half-hour toy commercials that were the cartoons of my youth look completely different in my eyes today.
Sorry, my childhood died when I watched Bugs Bunny years later and noticed that explosions, gun shots, and a bunch of other bits that were funny had been taken out. Not many things funnier than Wile E. Coyote or Elmer Fudd burnt to a crisp with their hair blown back after the TNT went off too soon.
I like this better than any Pooh book or cartoon ever! Had to wait until I was well over 30 before it discovered me too :(
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The DFC (when it was around) definitely warped some of my own childhood memories. The fact that they used the original cartoons and user-created captions made it all the more disturbing. But I don't remember laughing harder than I did whenever I read them. Somehow I think the parody generated even more interest in Bil Keane's daily strip.
What they did to Calvin and Hobbes was just wrong. That and Garfield were the two I grew up with, and I deign to see what the latter looks like. Besides, Suzie didn't like Calvin that much anyway...
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For every filter created there are two ways to circumvent them.
I wasn't allowed to watch TV on a Saturday morning. Nor did we have a computer. Instead, I was told to read a book or go outside and play. Strange concept, hey?
This sort of thing is for SomethingAwful, not SlashDot. this is a news site for geeks, not a site for people to point at something and go, "ew, gross!"
Grow up, anyway. If it can be corrupted by a sexual image, it has, probably a while ago. It's an irrevocable part of life, and not really something that deserves to be made fun of on a site devoted to geeky tech news.
Sounds to me like this site is more useful serving as a central point on the web as a listing of links to pornographic cartoons.
Mad Hatter
I posted on this site, but not for long. It's boring. Come on, you can only see pop culture figures turned into wank fodder about a dozen times before it gets dull. All porn in pretty much the same. Seeing one cartoon character take it up the pooper is about the same as any other character doing the same. I fail to see why people find this so entertaining.
Uhm. I'm sorry, but I think your childhood memories must be a bit broken already if it only takes a twisted fan site to shatter them. Get a grip and hit the back arrow if you stumble upon something on the 'net that offends you. Everything out there offends somebody on the 'net.
Oh no, you were exposed to someone else's thoughts and you didn't like them. Wah.
... Is this even about "broken memories" or "raped childhoods"? No. This is just a set of links to every dirty cartoon or story ever drawn. It's more like "cartoon porn paradise". So, nice try on the part of a bleeding heart /. editor to encourage censorship, but this story shouldn't have been approved. And nice job by the submittor to get a cartoon porn site on the front page.
Seriously, I understand where people are coming from on this - I, too, have a special place in my heart for the stories I read/watched as a young child - but what would you prefer? Censorship? There's not really a middle ground. You don't like it, don't look at it. Sorry if you got offended but that's your problem.
Now then, this site
While I'm waiting for this to load, I think I'll create Broken Links, a website devoted to all the websites destroyed by slashdotting.
My god... where do all these people who actually WERE "innocent" as children come from? Personally, I remember my wild childhood imagination thinking up scenes just as dirty as anything on the Evil Internet with my favorite comic book characters back when I was just 7-8 or so, and most of my friends back then were just as dirty-minded little bastards. Of course, sex and superheroes were both about equally "unreal" to us... Perhaps that's an excuse. :)
Not to mention that kids usually know their computer better than their parents do.
Instead of advertising or search engines to drive traffic to a site that has absolutely no content, let's scam slashdot into posting it as an article. Did the poster actually check out the site to see that there wasn't anything there?
This Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles clip has to be the funniest movie clip I've ever seen in my life!!!
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
I wouldn't go so far as to say my childhood memories have been ruined by what I've seen on the Internet. Rather, it's been a great source for me to meet other fans of television shows, cartoons, and movies that I've been a fan of. There will always be the fringe element websites that spoofs or otherwise shatters the 'innocence' we had as kids watching these shows -- but why worry about it?
What I don't appreciate, however, is the fact that cartoons I used to view on TV have been severely edited to cut out "objectionable" bits. I guess that's what pisses me off the most. And to make matters worse, is the other crap on TV that's 10 times worse in terms of profanity and violence. As if kids aren't already exposed to this stuff.
Hypocracy lives!
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..if anything seeing the x-men gang bang storm was a major turn on.
I've left to find myself. If you happen to see me, please, keep me there until I return.
now my memories are slashdotted....
Porn-a-tized comics/catoons have been longer than the web... how many faxes have I received over the years... each one degrading a little bit more as it gets passed along.
BBS' were pretty good about warehousing that crap too.
...will mostly be marked by a bunch of assholes from Arstechnica's forums.
For some reason, civlised debat is hard to come by on that particular website.
Only the ones that don't depict the "character" appearing like a "black sambo" have been left in. All explosions that result in a pig tail with bow dread loche look with big africanus nose and africanus lips have been removed due to political correctness.
This is similar to the editting in my opinion that Steven Speilberg did by replacing guns with bats in the special edition of ET.
The only thing I see wrong with what the article mentioned is that teens sometimes wear these things (porn Flintstones and such) on T Shirts. It's not the webmasters we should be after, it's Spencers and Gadzooks, and Hot Topic for promoting the bastardization of cartoon characters.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
Poorly drawn cartoon pornography doesn't destroy happy childhood memories of cartoons. Watching those cartoons now destroys those memories.
I remember those shows as being super cool. But whenever they get re-aired (say on Cartoon Network) I cannot even watch one episode all the way through. They are tedious and boring, the plots make no sense, the characters are depthless, the animation and the voice acting are crappy. There's no redeeming value to these shows.
The fact that they allowed children of our generation to watch that drivel astounds me. And it makes me wonder at how naive and simple a child I was to think of that as entertainment.
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
I dunno, maybe I was old enough when I first ran across this sort of stuff that it couldn't shock me so hard. But I don't see what a big deal it is.
If you were hit that badly by seeing fan-art, I wonder how you'd react to hearing actual audio outtakes from the Thundercats show. The fact is, while the cartoon itself may be pure, the people behind it are only human.
Maybe the fact that I grew up watching Warner Bros cartoons, which threw in all sorts of hidden adult humor, helped cushion me from this sort of shock. I dunno.
it's good to know that all my favorite cartoon characters actually have heartbeats after all.
when religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, governments will resort to real opiates.
Well, they could first stop here. That was a favorite of mine for breaking web filters. I also had an app that would record keystrokes, and then just make up some excuse for them having to use the master account. Once I had their password, I could adjust the levels. Now, I didn't do this to find porn, I did it because the filters prevented you from using the net connection for anything but its pre-approved list, which excluded mozilla, and my secret collection of uber-violent games, but that's a different story.
and apparently your childhood isn't the only thing that's broken, but codehappy.net is too.
YOU SUCK BALLS!
...the current makers of Tom and Jerry for everything.
Not to mention the out-of-ideas makers of every cartoon today. Why is there a "kids" version of cartoon classics that pretty much recycles the old plots?
There's Tom and Jerry Kids, Flinstones Kids, A Pup named Scooby, Tiny Toons and so on. They are far too cute and unfunny.
I positively adored Tom and Jerry. The original version. Then the producers decided that it was too violent and watered it down to hell. For an excelent article on T&J check this out.
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I remember back in the mid-ninties or so, when the web was young and (relatively) innocent. I was surfing a bunch of Star Trek sites when I first came upon Star Trek porn. Now keep in mind that this was back before porn became a big business on the 'net. So these people(guys and gals) must have been really obsessed fans who took the time to take nude photos of themselves while 'cosplaying', and scanned and posted it on the internet back when that was a totally geek-only thing... I don't know whether to be amused or frightened by the geekyness of it all.
At least there was no Wesley Crusher porn that I can recall... Hey CleverNickName, have you had problems with fan imposter porn being done of you or your charachter?
Growing up is the actual ruiner of cartoons. My roommate and I sat down and watched a marathon session of Robotech shows. At first it was nostalgic, then it was funny, and then . . . simply pathetic. We finished only five episodes and that was that. Childhood was great and all that, but some things are best left in the nursery.
On an aside, my girlfriend's father is an animator (we live in LA). When he was younger he drew for Scooby Doo. I asked him about the whole Fred and Daphne always going off together. And he laughed. He said all the animators drew porno pictures of the Scooby cast getting on it with each other (including Scooby) and past it around the office. He told me most animators do that on all shows except sometimes the cartoons are screwing the producers and all other deadline driving folk.
Rule of the internet #1:
People on the internet are inevitably very very very very very wierd.
Rule of the internet #2:
Most of the people who spend a *lot* of time on the internet are sexually frustrated.
Conclusion:
These people are gonna make raunchy jokes about everything they get their hands on.
I don't understand this "Broken Memories" approach. Getting your favorite cartoon spoofed causes you psychological damage? GET A GRIP, DUDE!
I miss the days when I was younger and had no awareness of these soul-crushing truths.
The sketch that did it for me was the SNL bit where James Bond finds out he's got every STD known to man, and hundreds of new ones, hereafter classified as Jamesbond001, JamesBond002, etc.
He's calling all the people he's ever slept with, and at one point, he calls up stately Wayne Manor.
"Hello, is Batman in? Excellent, could you put him on? No, no, stay on the line Robin, this concerns you too."
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
GI Joe used to be so damn cool when I was a kid....so when I heard it was going to be on Cartoon Network I had to see it......first time it's on I'm like "wtf is this sh**??" And turned it right the hell off....
:P
The only thing that ruins our 'childhood memories' is knowing better now
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I HIGHLY reccomend downloading "A Night on Thundera" (no, I'm not going to link to it - I'm ashamed I even know the title), and then have your mac read it back to you (the simpletext speech thang) - I haven't been that frightened or laughed that loud.
Just the way it makes Snarf say "Oh Lion-o"...
I'm going to go cry now.
While I think that most of this stuff is in pretty poor taste, Porn in general isn't what I would call "artsy", so when somebody creates a website of Pokeporn I am more inclined to roll my eyes and wonder why these people that in some cases actually seem to posses some skill at art, are wasting their time drawing genitals on cartoon animals and whatnot.
As for ruining my childhood, adulthood has done that with extream success, in fact there seems to be little left to ruin. At least old video games are still as good as they were back in the day (god bless emulation)
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
Heh. I've got 3 or so seasons (accounting for 4 years of my childhood and about 10 more years as an adult) that were ruined by fandom.
Strangely, the Internet was instrumental in restoring much of the joy that went with those years.
Once the topic falls off the front page, I'll re-enable the site. Sorry, I'd keep it up the whole time if it were my choice, but you know how it is.
Despite the best efforts of Corporate America, this kind of thing will always be. Once you publish something, the public owns it. Common people will do common things with your characters such as make them urinate. Of course, once the character is urinating it's not yours anymore is it? Cease and dissist letters will never stem the "abuse", though they will eliminate constructive uses. Before and after the internet, there are bathroom walls, tatoos and pamplets.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I run a fanfiction site and I can say I have seen this broken memorie thing happen all the time, something really popular in the fanfiction world is slash, slash is fanfic lingo for a story involving male/male intercourse, I have no problem with homosexuality but when people write Harry Potter or LotR fanfics involving slash I just think its sad, Its something that these charactors would never do, so its a bad fanfic, but for some reason, very popular