b0g.org is an everything/nothing website. It
originated from the b0g hacker group, which released a total of 13
ezines since 2000, including mostly the usual technology-related
documentation as well as various mockery of internet culture. Even
then a sarcastic undertone and cynical humour was characteristic
for the group.
The central part of the website is the
Post-section in which about 2-10 pictures, links,
movies and pieces of creative writing are being published every
day. Each of them is required to be considered interesting by one
of the two site maintainers, tress and kradbob. The users of the
site then have the possibility to comment on those articles. Posts
usually recieve between 20 and 300 comments, which can, like the
article itself, be rated.
What makes the website special is the
selection of topics and the overall tone of the submissions. "b0g"
is a
l33t pronounciation for
"bog", which is a verb describing the act of eating feces (for
example as part of scat pornography). Popular topics include
pictures of corpses, videos of people being killed or humiliated,
extraordinary acts of self-mutilation as well as diverse content
that casts a cynical light on society. Most of the comments are
sarcastic and ironic, even though irony isn't usually cleared up
and is probably not shared by some members - and most certainly not
by most casual viewers following links to to the site. One could
consider the whole site an excercise in creative trolling and
political incorrectness, or alternatively as an accumulation of
worryingly angry, well educated young adults. Amongst the most
popular articles rank the video of two men burning a cat alive and
the execution video of Nick Berg.
Part of website is also the
Forums section, which mainly includes submissions
that weren't deemed worthy of article status by their authors.
Additionally there's a game called
post bump, in
which one has to make regular entries in a timely fashion to get a
maximum amount of points. Since 2004 b0g also includes the section
photoshop, in which regularily a picture is
proposed for creative image manipulation. There also exists an
IRC channel on
Undernet that is frequented by some
of the regulars.
A number of inside jokes exist. However they
are mostly ever-changing through a natural symbiosis of trolling
tactics, the watchful eyes of tress and regular members spending
all too much heart and time on the website.
Because of its
offensive nature and b0g's history as the homepage of a
hacker-mockery group, downtimes of varying duration occur from time
to time if not regularly.
The page improved after e~ left(a
female member who tried to sabotage b0g and cause wars) after other
members found out that she was really fat and had sent people pics
of herself which weren't her at all.
See also
rotten.com
Ogrish 4chan