Poll: Poll: Rule 34, Your opinion

[Dragunai]

If you encounter it, turn your family settings up or back on.
This really is one of those things that can be circumvented >.>

As for my opinion on it?
Meh.

Hentai has been around for a hell of a long time and there's a reasonable amount of Rule 34 content that is cartoon based or simply euphemisms that imply a sexual situation. Few people object to hentai, so even fewer people care about the random scribblings of someone with a weird sense of humour.

 

[rotund0]

Wait...
So there's Driving Ms. Daisy porn?
Cocoon porn?
On Golden Pond porn?
(ok, that last one I can see for the double-meaning parody aspect)


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
The Horror.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I hate it! Many of you like to whine about having your childhoods ruined by various things, well I'll tell you this; Micheal Bay doesn't ruin childhoods, Rule 34 ruins childhoods.

No he still does.

Only if your childhood is as fragile as a porcelain doll in a bomb shelter. Also you completely missed my point.

 

[Faux Furry]

It's a barrel and a half of laughs.
I don't just mean the Rule 34 related art work, that includes the people who get worked up about how other people enjoy works of fiction as if adding sex to the mix is the worst thing that one can do to the property if they aren't funnier sometimes.

Now adding low quality fan fiction to actual canon once one is one the series' staff is a travesty that affects my ability to enjoy a work by making said work less fun to behold... unless it is so bad that there is perverse entertainment to be had from watching the whole thing derail, crash and burn in spectacular fashion!

 

[Aethren]

I don't mind it, everyone's found something attractive at one time or another.

I have, however, found an exception to the rule, so it's not all-inclusive. (Mr. Bean)

 

[Vandy]

Rule 34 made my childhood more Awesome. I always thought Velma was sexy and now there's pictures to prove it!

Spoiler

Jinkies! Just the right amount of junk in that trunk.

 

[TastyCarcass]

It has so many uses! You can fap to the hot ones and scare your friends with the sick ones! Then fap to those too!

 

[OrokuSaki]

Rule 34 is one of those novelties to the internet, it's not something that you come for, but it's something that makes you cringe and ups your tolerance for the next thing the internet throws at you.

 

[spartan231490]

Rule 34 of the Internet: If it exists, someone has made porn of it. No exceptions.

It is an unfortunate fact of the internet. Whether it's Pokemon, Portal, Calvin and Hobbs, or Dora the Explorer. There are NO EXCEPTIONS! My question is, WHY!? What makes an otherwise normal human think "Hey, look! The Muppet Show, Damn, Kermit looks hot tonight. I'm going to draw him in a gimp suit with Miss Piggy and post it on the internet for all to see."?

(Note: The situation above is assumed. If you search for it and find it, I really, REALLY don't want to know about it.)

Humans aren't as civilized as we like to pretend. The fact is that when given the anonymity of the internet, most people resort to basic drives like sex and dominance. That's my theory anyway.

 

[Jodah]

Whatever floats your boat I suppose. If you don't like it, don't look.

 

[TheRocketeer]

I don't mind that it exists, in principle; it seems like a lot of the crazier R34 only exists for comic, OH NO YOU DIDN'T purposes.

And for people that actually are soft in the head, it gives them something to do besides flashing old people in the park or restocking the guro dungeon in their basement.

 

[Anarchemitis]

The "Rule 34" is an unprovable theory that only maintains its countenance by the same denial-based wishful thinking that maintains most internet memes and ideas, which are thought of as obviously false and joke-based but held in a fisade of seriousness and absolution that on the exterior appears absolutely and incontrovertibly true. The same can be said about the masculinity of My Little Pony and of 4chan's other "Rules of the Internet". That's what I think of the name of the concept.
I have no opinion of the concept itself.

 

[pspman45]

I hate it! Many of you like to whine about having your childhoods ruined by various things, well I'll tell you this; Micheal Bay doesn't ruin childhoods, Rule 34 ruins childhoods.

I'm pretty sure rule 34 didn't make a bad movie out of transformers...

 

[Shakomaru]

Seriously though, I don't mind it as long as it's drawn well and isn't too strange. as impossible as that sounds.

I hate it! Many of you like to whine about having your childhoods ruined by various things, well I'll tell you this; Micheal Bay doesn't ruin childhoods, Rule 34 ruins childhoods.

I'm pretty sure rule 34 didn't make a bad movie out of transformers...

No exceptions remember? There is a possibility.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

I have seen some pretty disturbing things on the web but people have a right to post it imo. I also like to know that if I ever do discover some bizarre fetish then the Internet's always got my back.

 

[Vrex360]

For the most part, yes. I'm fine with I guess 'sexy' drawing and depictions of popular characters (provided that these are NOT characters I grew up with as a child... like Calvin and Hobbes) but the really gross and sexually explicit and frankly disgustingly graphic and sometimes disturbing pictures out there?
No way, that's just wrong.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Personally, I love it. I am a huge fan of satire, and I have an epic imagination. Making pornograhy of something can exploit both of those.

Yup. Pretty much. I don't actually care about it as porn, but the sheer entertainment value of seeing some of the ridiculous things people come up with is great sometimes. I've seen things people drew of inanimate objects and even abstract concepts as a challenge or even on a dare, just to see if it could be done, and they're often bizarrely creative in a kind of fascinating way. Just like with anything else, the overwhelming majority of it is crap, but it makes my day when someone comes up with something particularly clever.

Oddly enough, not only did stuff like that exist online long before 4chan and the term "Rule 34" did (and offline before that), I even got really strange things like Rule 34 Simpsons GIFs advertising Viagra in my email spam in the late 90s, and a Matrix one playing on the "blue pill" line from the movie and the Viagra "blue pill". Rule 34 spam that predates Rule 34 itself by several years? This is why the Internet is so much fun. Heh.

 

[Something Amyss]

Rule 34 of the Internet: If it exists, someone has made porn of it. No exceptions.

It is an unfortunate fact of the internet.

It's also self-fulfilling. People have gone so far as to create material to fit the rule.

It's wholly unnecessary, but as long as they keep it out of my face, I don't care.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Rule 34 is both awesome and terrifying. Anything I could possibly want can be found. Than again, anything I could possibly not want exists too. Ultimately, rule 34 is neutral, like any given scientific advancement, it can be used for both good and evil.

 

[Atmos Duality]

"*facepalm*....why....?"

That sums up my response to just about every Rule 34 bomb I've ever endured.