Post by Mitchell on Apr 7, 2010 6:53:50 GMT -5
It started with the LOLcats, which had their moment in the sun, but were really not that funny to begin with.
The icanhazcheezburger site started seemingly accepting ANY submission of a cat picture with pisspoor spelling as humor. The result? The barely funny original postings got overrun with garbage.
As the meme cooled and cheezburger's volume-over-quality approach waned, cheezburger expanded into other areas, and started buying out other "funny picture" sites, endless copying the concept and forgoing what made them funny and rubber-stamping cheezburger's failed quantity-over-quality footprint.
I used to like sites like thereifixedit.com and failblog.org, but now rather than a simple blog, they now sport cheezburger's difficult-to-navigate CMS, feature stupid things like videos and storefronts, have a ridiculously HUGE cheezburger network webring nav banner at the bottom, and generally have gone downhill. Not content with dumbing up those sites, cheezburger launched thatwillbuffout, sort of a thereifixedit for cars (never mind ICFI already had car pictures).
Three of my favorite sites, the aformentioned FailBlog and TIFI, along with thisisphotobomb, have gotten the cheezburger treatment, are stupidly unfunny at this point, and woefully have lost my viewing.
The same thing seems to be happening at PeopleofWalmart now that they are a part of "three ring focus." I guess I'll have to GO to WalMart to experience WalMartians first hand.
The icanhazcheezburger site started seemingly accepting ANY submission of a cat picture with pisspoor spelling as humor. The result? The barely funny original postings got overrun with garbage.
As the meme cooled and cheezburger's volume-over-quality approach waned, cheezburger expanded into other areas, and started buying out other "funny picture" sites, endless copying the concept and forgoing what made them funny and rubber-stamping cheezburger's failed quantity-over-quality footprint.
I used to like sites like thereifixedit.com and failblog.org, but now rather than a simple blog, they now sport cheezburger's difficult-to-navigate CMS, feature stupid things like videos and storefronts, have a ridiculously HUGE cheezburger network webring nav banner at the bottom, and generally have gone downhill. Not content with dumbing up those sites, cheezburger launched thatwillbuffout, sort of a thereifixedit for cars (never mind ICFI already had car pictures).
Three of my favorite sites, the aformentioned FailBlog and TIFI, along with thisisphotobomb, have gotten the cheezburger treatment, are stupidly unfunny at this point, and woefully have lost my viewing.
The same thing seems to be happening at PeopleofWalmart now that they are a part of "three ring focus." I guess I'll have to GO to WalMart to experience WalMartians first hand.
