Bad Taste Culture

How Dumb is Hentai?

Hentai: The Hobby That Requires Both Headphones and Curtains Hentai is fascinating because it’s the only entertainment genre where the viewer behaves like they’re defusing a bomb. You don’t watch hentai. You monitor it. One hand on the mouse. One ear on the hallway. Soul halfway between curiosity and shame like a cat caught sitting in a sink. Every other art form wants an audience. Movies want theaters. Sports want stadiums. Music wants…

Current Absurdities Technology

Marxists Losing the Internet

How U.K. Marxists Losing the Internet Is Actually Freedom Winning Let’s start with the heart of The Guardian’s claim: they argue that digital platforms destroyed traditional “liberal” messaging—though let’s be honest, we’re talking about Marxists and Bolsheviks who want total economic, social, and political control but prefer the gentler branding, like calling nationalisation “public ownership” and thought police “fact-checkers.” They focused too much on “disinformation” (translation: speech they can’t control), and so the…

Technology

The Internet Was a Mistake!

How a Tool for Knowledge Became a Global Argument Machine From Digital Enlightenment to Comment-Section Chaos For a while there, the Internet looked like humanity’s smartest invention. Libraries without dust. Communication without postage stamps. A place where knowledge flowed freely and cat pictures were shared in a spirit of global cooperation. Historians now agree this honeymoon period lasted approximately six minutes, ending the moment someone figured out how to leave…