It’s amazing the depths of life you can find when you’re bored. Have you ever used IRC? Internet Relay Chat that is. It’s a different world. Picture spending ever second of your awake life online.. what would you do? Well a lot of us do that, whether we’re working in programming, web development, or any job that allows you to earn a living online while you spend the day wasting time online.
Some people spend their entire LIVES online. To further investigate this a few of us spent three weeks visiting Fark.com’s chatroom #fark on FDFnet. I met some interesting characters.
I met Miz, a channel operator, who apparently met her American husband online. They work all day, and then come home and play World of Warcraft together. A video game that you pay a monthly fee for. She logs on first thing in the morning and logs out last thing at night. She hates Obama’s speeches.
Sueb is a secretary of some sort.. she lives in the south somewhere. She has kids and a lot of family issues. She’s pretty miserable and lonely and really hates when new people enter the #fark or #bannination chat rooms.
Iggins is a 21 yr old kid that works at a Kroger supermarket in Kentucky. He works in the meat department and hangs in #fark because it’s a place to go when there’s no where else to go.
IHateyourFaceYo is a guy in Connecticut that lives with his parents and just took a job inspecting sewers. He tells it like it is, even though the #fark Ops don’t appreciate it. He was begged to come back to #bannination because nothing interesting goes on there when he’s not around.
Qate is pretty much a 24/7 user from just outside Houston. She just took a job working at NASA. She’s in her 40’s and likes to replace c’s and k’s with q’s in words, as in the qat was in the litterbox.
Calisa is a bulimic 21 yr old girl from the midwest that regularly and publicly obsesses over her weight. She has shared her online folder where she keeps pictures of all the thin actresses like Angelina Jolie that she identifies with. She thrives on the attention she gets from the web stalkers in #fark.
Aeonite seems to be one of the “not as intelligent” users on #fark as he only inserts profane or ridiculous comments into conversation like “is he hot?” People mostly ignore Aeonite.
Superdug is a troll, meaning someone that just chats to cause trouble on #fark. He shared a photo and he is an obese, mid 20’s user that likes to make sexual jokes online.
He11Razor: Not sure what his deal is, kinda the squeaky kid in class that everyone private messages each other about, making fun of. I’m sure if there were a way to throw a paper airplane in IRC he’d have a swarm of them around his head at all times. Poor kid.
CaptainWes: Plays Total Fortress 2 every day, all day. His fiance, PeanuttyGirl is upset so much by this that she talks about how obese and lazy he is on a daily basis, as well as the fact that she is sexually unsatisfied. She welcomes flirting from other #fark users.
Kitsune is the “administrator” of FDFnet and by far the saddest case online. He is an obese homosexual man that apprently has no signifcant other and lives his life 100% online. Any questions we had for him put him on the defensive and he immediately banned one of us. Private messages from other users revealed that he regularly uses his “administrator” status as a way to bully other users.
In the end, this experience was depressing. Seeing people that spend all day every day referencing Monty Python and other non-evolved comedy jokes, seeing people fake flirt with each other, seeing fat guys being overly lewd and obnoxious to chatters with a female name. It’s the lowest common denominator, and I can’t believe that one of my favorite sites, Fark.com, allows it’s name to be associated with it, especially when operators of the channel admit that none of them even visit Fark.com.
