YouTube Poop

I was perusing the interwebs the other day, I think it was Saturday or Sunday, somewhen over the weekend, as per usual.. and I noticed something.  Well, I actually noticed this a long time ago, but it really hit me full force like a semi's grill to Wile E. Coyote.

There's a lot of crap on the internet.

Yeah, I know.  "Duh, A.W.  Where have you been?"

I really mean a lot of crap.

If you are keen on tropes and memes, you've already heard of Rule 34.. But, I think some sort of addendum or revision need be made.  If you have no idea what I'm talking about at this point, go here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rules%20of%20the%20internet

Or here, if you prefer a more meme-defining site:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-the-internet

Or here, if you like a bit of NSFW cynicism.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Rules_of_the_Internet

Aaaanyways.  The 'Bard' said something once about there being a set number of story themes, or something, which is essentially true, but I think when it comes to the internet a different approach is needed.

It's really a combination of several things.

1. There's always a bigger fish.

Somewhere out there is a tweenager, who can do what you can do, a million times better.  If you're big and strong, they are growing them (sometimes right out of the labs) bigger, stronger, faster, and younger than you.

2.  If someone has thought it, it exists; somewhere on the internet.

This is a revisional paraphrase of Rule 34, with less pornographic tendencies; although, one should keep in mind that those exist as well.  It also hearkens back to 'Big Brother', where nothing you say or do is hidden, secret, or safe and somewhere, someone has already 'stolen' whatever it was you were trying to keep for yourself.  Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you.

3.  Ah, forget it.

Let's just get down to business.

The majority of humans are so insipid that they have flooded the world with their stupidity.  They have created a socialization that makes it easier (day by day) to share this idiocy, creating viral nonsense that fills bandwidth and hard-drive alike.  Each day they get exponentially dumber, able to spread their goobery duh-duh-duh faster and faster and faster, and that's just on the internets.

YouTube is only the tip of the idiot iceberg.

Ok, so the things I have been posting on YouTube are just as insipid.  I'm not helping the environment.  I'm not promoting activism or global change.  I'm not utilizing my FREE SPEECH to promote intelligent or spiritual growth, governmental revision, or social reform.  One could argue, with little effort, that I'm just dumping my own piece of YouTube Poop onto the ever growing pile of refuse on the internet.

You are right.

But, if you have come to this conclusion, you're smarter than 90% of the people I am forced to interact with on a daily basis.  You have managed to see through the (trying) hilarious lunacy that I have graced (forced) you to deal with.

I guess I could be called a hypocrite.  But, I really don't want you to change.

As long as there are idiots flooding the channels, drawing you into their mind-numbing lives or tropes, I'll be waiting in the shadows.

Lull yourself into a false sense of security.

I'll be waiting.