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Childhood Memories Ruined by the Internet?

Posted by michael on from the slash-fiction dept.

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."

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  1. Wrong. by black+mariah · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Err... by Eudial · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  3. broken memories :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah like, i remember my childhood..
    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.

    /me cries
    the world has changed :(

    -r

    1. Re:broken memories :( by sandbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

      Now that Carrie Fisher looks like one of my math teachers, my childhood memories of her in that aluminum bikini are ruined. Well, there's always Veronica Hamel from Hill Street Blues.

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  4. Ruined by maturity, not mature content . . . by SimplyCosmic · · Score: 5, Insightful



    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.

  5. Censoring 'toons by Enry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Censoring 'toons by Angry+Toad · · Score: 5, Funny

      I caught one of these hacked-up Bugs Bunny cartoons a while back. I mean, one minute Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck are talking to one another, and suddenly (and with no explanation) Daff's beak is on upside down and backwards and he's screaming and trailing smoke all over the place.

      Now personally I think that's WAY more disturbing than the original cartoon.

    2. Re:Censoring 'toons by Eskarel · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Well there are of couse exceptions to the rule of censoring toons being a bad thing. There were a few made during the Second World War which were just horrible.

      I personally will never get the image of bugs bunny in black face hawking war bonds. "Any bonds today, gonna buy your share of freedom?" Explosions may be one thing but watching your childhood memories as government sponsored bigots is almost as bad as that "fan art".

      Haven't seen the infamous one where bugs is shooting the Japanese, there are probably only about a dozen copies of that one left in the world, but it's supposedly considerably worse.

  6. Not Appropriate for Slashdot... by Diamondback · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  7. Wah wah wah, whats the point? by Edgewize · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh no, you were exposed to someone else's thoughts and you didn't like them. Wah.

    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 ... 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.

  8. Different perspective... by TheOrquithVagrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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. :)

  9. You're correct by WankersRevenge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  10. Re:Star Trek porn? by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey CleverNickName, have you had problems with fan imposter porn being done of you or your charachter?

    Sure, if you call getting a hummer in the turbo lift from Tasha Yar "problems," set your phasers to porn!