You know how I know? The Real Doll documentary I blogged about a few weeks ago is officially mainstream – when there is a Yelp thread on something, you know it’s officially over, kind of like when Wal-Mart starts selling skinny jeans.
I say I’m a big old pervert because unlike a lot of other people, my reaction wasnt OMG THIS IS THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I’VE EVER SEEN it was more fascination followed by sympathy for the extreme loneliness. I don’t understand why everyone is so grossed out, have these people not been on the same Internet that I have been on for 11 years now? Have none of these people logged in any time at somethingawful or rotten.com? Tubgirl was far more traumatizing than Davecat.
The creepiest thing I’ve ever seen online was For the Love of Julie, this site about a woman who had a stalker. For a while, there were tons of videos up of this girl in her house and of the guy breaking into her apartment while she was out. It was really, really creepy (and of course, I looked at it all the time).
Eventually, some people called the cops out of concern for Julie (and because there were some posts hinting that the stalker was going to harm her) and they revealed that it was all fake and that the girl was an actress. The version on the Wayback Machine doesn’t appear to have the videos, but I know they were there. Whoever did this did a really good job of making it as realistic as possible, of course, years later, the site now looks so outdated that no one would buy it. I can’t find the post where they mention that the whole site is fake, but you’ll have to trust me. I know I saw it. And you know me…I forget nothing, even if I told you I did.