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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
-r
well, now i know where to look for all my smurf hentai
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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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
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. :)
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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now my memories are slashdotted....
...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.
If you want to see tons of hentai sketches, go to an animation studio. Inevitably artists working on a show will draw some very nasty parody art based on what they are currently working on at the time. Probably a lot of what is now circulating on the Internet had its origins not with perverted fans, but with the sick and twisted artists who actually worked on the shows.
If anyone finds the "Ren & Stimpy discover sex and/or drugs" sketches that were floating around Spumco during the production of the show in 1990-92, they will have their childhood memories of that show thoroughly and completely ruined. I have seen these sketches with my own eyes...I know.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
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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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.