what is this?

March 13, 2012 5:40 PM

does anybody know what on earth this website is for?

I found it by googling for an ask metafilter thread on Google. Every time you reload it, the comments change. There aren't any links either.

posted by Tarumba to MetaFilter-Related at 5:40 PM (30 comments total)

That is bertrandom's Mefi comments vs. Youtube comments project! It just loads recent comments from both, as a point of comparison. Previously discussed here and here.
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:43 PM on March 13, 2012 [2 favorites]

Neat! I hadn't see the original thread and I'm glad it was pointed out, thanks!
posted by ApathyGirl at 5:45 PM on March 13, 2012

inbox me for pictures of my dick!
posted by ODiV at 5:47 PM on March 13, 2012 [2 favorites]

awesome, Cortex, thanks!
posted by Tarumba at 5:50 PM on March 13, 2012

Uh, that was a quote from YouTube, to be clear.
posted by ODiV at 5:52 PM on March 13, 2012 [15 favorites]

This is actually relevant to a recent thread
posted by delmoi at 5:52 PM on March 13, 2012

JENNIFER LOPEZ IS A LYING, IDIOTIC, MANIPULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!! JENNIFER LOPEZ IS A LYING, IDIOTIC, MANIPULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!! JENNIFER LOPEZ IS A LYING, IDIOTIC, MANIPULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you say it 3 times, then she appears.

JENNIFER LOPEZ IS A LYING, IDIOTIC, MANIPULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!! JENNIFER LOPEZ IS A LYING, IDIOTIC, MANIPULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!! JENNIFER LOPEZ IS A LYING, IDIOTIC, MANIPULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!! JENNIFER LOPEZ IS A LYING, IDIOTIC, MANIPULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you say it 4 times, then I'm going to appear and slap you for being annoying.
posted by arcticseal at 6:01 PM on March 13, 2012

Uh, that was a quote from YouTube, to be clear.

Not anymore!
posted by Mchelly at 6:01 PM on March 13, 2012 [14 favorites]

indict me for pictures of my box
posted by carsonb at 6:08 PM on March 13, 2012 [5 favorites]

I keep my dick on box cuz I'm on a diet.

Mark my words.
posted by MattMangels at 6:12 PM on March 13, 2012

All I'm getting is an error screen.
posted by deborah at 6:29 PM on March 13, 2012

We broke it!
posted by desjardins at 6:33 PM on March 13, 2012

Haha, yeah, we did break it.
posted by vegartanipla at 6:45 PM on March 13, 2012

aw crap, I'm sorry!
posted by Tarumba at 6:48 PM on March 13, 2012

A one website wrecking crew. That's what we are.
posted by zarq at 6:54 PM on March 13, 2012 [1 favorite]

Has anyone thanked Matt lately? 'Cause wow, the contrast is painful.
posted by Mitheral at 7:16 PM on March 13, 2012 [1 favorite]

A one website wrecking crew. That's what we are.

that's what happens when yada yada pictures of my dick
posted by secret about box at 7:38 PM on March 13, 2012

Did the website die? I'm only getting an error.
posted by meese at 8:07 PM on March 13, 2012

It's dead, Jim.
posted by grouse at 8:32 PM on March 13, 2012 [4 favorites]

Why you dead, Ricky?
posted by thinkpiece at 4:44 AM on March 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

Just so we're clear, here is a conversation that happened in this thread:

inbox me for pictures of my dick!

awesome, Cortex, thanks!

We broke it!

Haha, yeah, we did break it.

aw crap, I'm sorry!

It's dead, Jim.


Poor Cortex.
posted by Think_Long at 6:27 AM on March 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

hahah that is beautiful:

"he is somehow GAY + STRAIGHT = GRAIGHT "

"FUCK VEVO!! Dear Vevo, Let me start by sayin get your fat corporate arses off youtube! Ever since these big companies started paying off youtube so they could post their videos we can't post ours. We are flagged for infringement every time we include a song we like in our videos. This is YOUtube, the place where we can post OUR videos. If we wanted to listen to music from you we'd go to your fucking website. To people who want greedy corporates gone, thumbs up and copy this on Vevo vids "
posted by marienbad at 6:44 AM on March 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

I am concerned that, with people quoting YouTube comments here, these comments are going to get picked up on that site, and it will prove that we are as shallow as YouTube commenters.
posted by adamrice at 6:52 AM on March 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

Yep, and then the youtube people will go copy a bunch of original stock metafilter comments and paste them in and the transition will be complete.
posted by kingbenny at 7:51 AM on March 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

I think it might only grab from the blue, adamrice.
posted by ODiV at 8:32 AM on March 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

And... it's back up!
posted by vegartanipla at 11:05 AM on March 14, 2012

ODiV: I think it might only grab from the blue, adamrice.

And if it doesn't, and includes answers from AskMe, there would be random medical advice, DTMFA, and so forth, which would be really confusing.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:18 PM on March 14, 2012

As a general rule of thumb, don't read the bottom half of the internet.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:17 PM on March 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

ODiV, it's been a day an I'm still waiting!
posted by cjorgensen at 6:20 PM on March 14, 2012

Ha! I looked at it once and it worked. Refresh, and my company's decency-filter blocked it for "offensive content". Either Metafilter or Youtube just got more sweary. Hmm.
posted by greenish at 6:21 AM on March 15, 2012