Rule 34 Of The Internet

Rule 34 Of The Internet

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“@tarastrong It is a frightening place, the internet. A lot of rules as well. The two I've come to know are Rule 34 and 63. Scary place.”

The Great Mediocrity @SteelEagleShane Twitter (February 17, 2012)

“On the internet, there are 48 rules; The Rules of the Internet.”

“Rules of The Internet,” Encyclopedia Dramatica (January 10, 2007)

“As a constitution, the rules [of the internet] were always doomed to failure (Rule 15: " The harder you try the harder you will fail '). But they remain important as a document of online culture, created by 4chan's anonymous founding fathers.”

Roisin Kiberd, “The ‘Rules of the Internet’ Reflect an Online Wild West That’s Fading Away,” Motherboard (February 22, 2017)

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Rules of the internet refers to a humorous list of unofficial rules guiding online conduct or listing axioms about what the internet is and how users should behave on it.
Contrary to what the name may imply, the so-called rules of the internet are not laws enforceable by any official authority. Rather, they are a series of in-jokes, guidelines, and references related to internet culture as it was in the early 2000s. Many of the catchphrases within the rules of the internet , as it exists today, are specific allusions to memes on 4chan or popular references to Fight Club, South Park , and so on.
Emerging as a kind of Netiquette for the Internet group Anonymous, the rules of the internet were published on the satirical wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica, in 2006, before an attempt at a more official list emerged on 4chan in 2007. The founder of 4chan, Christopher Poole, has said that the rules became so popular that users tended to ignore 4chan’s rules in favor of their own homemade rules of the internet .
There’s no one, consistent, agreed-upon set of rules of the internet . The original list claimed, for instance, to have 50 rules, but actually only had 18. Some later versions have only 48 entries, whereas others have 100. While the rules vary quite a bit across online subcultures, a few have become well established, including a number of holdovers from the original Encyclopedia Dramatica:
Rule 1: Do not talk about rules 2-33
Rule 34: There is porn of it. No exceptions.
Rule 35: The exception to rule #34 is the citation of rule #34.
Rule 36: Anonymous does not forgive.
Rule 37: There are no girls on the internet.
Rule 38: A cat is fine too
Rule 39: One cat leads to another.
Rule 40: Another cat leads to zippocat.
Rule 41: Everything is someone’s sexual fetish.
Rule 42: It is delicious cake. You must eat it.
Rule 43: It is a delicious trap. You must hit it.
Rule 44: /b/ sucks today.
Rule 45: Cock goes in here.
Rule 46: They will not bring back Snacks.
Rule 47: You will never have sex.
Rule 48: ???
Rule 49: Profit.
Rule 50: You can not divide by zero.
Whatever the particular list, the rules of the internet are intended to be funny, and many rules purposely contradict each other. Rule 34, for example, refers to the ubiquity of pornography online: “There is porn of it. No exceptions.” Then, Rule 35 follows up: “The exception to rule #34 is the citation of rule #34.”
Other rules of the internet are misogynistic or provocative in nature. Rule 30 (in some versions), for instance, declares: “There are no girls on the internet.” as if to claim the internet as an exclusively male space. And Rule 31 demands: “Tits or GTFO,” or “Show me a picture of your tits or get the fuck out,” said to female users in online forums.
The early rules of the internet reflected the nature of 4chan at the time: raw, new, anonymous, and widely used by younger males with nerdy interests, like anime and gaming. As the internet expanded and evolved, the rules of internet evolved with it, leading some users to think the rules are dramatically out of date.
The rules of the internet were never intended to be actual law, so much as general guidelines, in-jokes, and clever axioms found amidst the internet community. Actually following the rules would be a joke unto itself, because, as Rule 15 says: “The harder you try, the harder you will fail.”
Some of the more popular and widespread memes have become memes of their own. Rule 34, as mentioned above, is a notable example, which has spawned entire websites all its own. Rule 63—“For every fictional character that exists, there is a counterpart of the opposite sex”—is also well known, though it was a later addition to the original rules. Another popular entry is Rule 32—“Pics or it didn’t happen”—which was also added later. While the rules of the internet are meant to be jokes, be mindful of the misogyny in some particular items.

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If it exists, there is porn of it — no exceptions.

Supposedly originating and popularized by the 4chan Image Boards , this was the first near-universally agreed-upon Rule Of The Internet . It is so well founded and documented with irrefutable proof that even those with only a cursory awareness of the Internet are aware of this rule even if they don't know it has a name.

While the original architects of the Internet had grandiose goals of research and data sharing, the second it fell into the hands of Joe Everyman , it became a tool for one thing and one thing only: pornography ! Now, it's not that everyone online is just looking for pornography; it's just that it's very very easy to come across. Even if you're not looking for it! Don't believe us? Do a Google image search (filters off) of, well, pretty much anything. Sometimes even with the filters on .

The key reason the scope of it is so wide and bizarre lies in what some have come to call Rule 36 : "If you've thought of it, then there's somebody out there with a Fetish for it." (And incidentally, by "it" we mean "anything that exists in the world.")

There's also Rule 35 , basically a guarantee that Rule 34 will remain true : "If there is no porn of it, it will be made". This basically means that if you notice you can't find porn of something, and point it out, somebody will be happy to draw/write/find it for you in pretty short order.

Finally, there is the concept of quantum porn. "Referring to a type of previously non-existent porn will cause online porn of that type to come into being retroactively." Nobody takes this seriously, so far as is known.

You may wish to keep a bottle of Brain Bleach handy while proving Rule 34. See also Rule 63 , which gets mixed up with this. And if you do go hunting to prove this rule false, say good-bye to your childhood first...

Not to be confused with US federal courts' Rule 34 . Or Rule 34 of the Evil Overlord List (dealing with the trope Scaled Up ). Or The 34th Rule , a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book (the 34th Rule of Acquisition reads " War is good for business "). Or Wolfram 's Rule 34. Or Charles Stross 's novel Rule 34 (although it is the origin of the Stross title).

Nobody's sure if it's a coincidence that Lyons Township High School 's rule book has #34: No Pornography; mostly because nobody's ever dared to ask.

No examples, please. This applies to everything (except for Discworld , illustrated on several websites, as well as fellow novel runs Leviathan and Mortal Engines), so the list would be as long as ... everything. [1] Also, we're not really interested in being the Net's "How To Find Rule 34 Stuff" — you will need to look elsewhere if you want to find that kind of thing.

For a list of creator reactions to the phenomenon that are definitely not examples, see here .

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Rule 34 is one of the rules of the Internet , the only one that applies to the real world, and the only one that actually exists. This rule was first enforced by the 1337 h4x0rs of the Usenet era, and has been etched tight into all denziens of the Internet. Those who fail to accept this law should never and ever wander the nets, as this rule is enforced into every search that one makes with Google , Every Franchise that the world knows, and maybe everything that exists. Failure to accept the rule will probably make one insane, and utterly guarantees one's banishment of the internet.

This statement in spread means "If it exists in the matter of franchises, in the real world or if mankind knows about this thing, there will be pictures of it having sex." This includes Ponies , Pokemon , Transformers, Hitler, Coke cans, Powerpuff girls and basically anything that has ever put into existence. Nothing will be spared from the sheer wrath of the internet raping your childhood. Even the 404 Girl of 4Chan , which is usually considered pure and a rivaling force, is not spared of the rule. There is STILL hentai of it. Just don't show it to the /b/tards .

The rule came from the primitive usenet period where the inhabitants of the internet are on the search for more porn . At that time there was only one kind of porn, human porn, which was quite boring, and the inhabitants had fed up using the primitive process of using 24 hours of time to download their porn. This engineered their search for exotic porn, but at that time exotic porn wasn't the best bet out there as it is difficult to find. Soon the king of the internet designed a rule for the internet, and it was Rule 34. At first many people hated it so much that the internet almost collapsed, but they saw Japan starting to draw exotic hentai. Not only there are humans with better proportions than the porn stars that they watched; they even found the beauty of porn that once never existed, such as an unknown penis having sex with a pokemon; one thing that the usenetfags never saw. This has engineered people to draw porn themselves.

When the Rule was enforced to solve the first porn crisis it was quite unwelcome. Many citizens started to protest in usenet and started spamming the boards with the words "da world don't welcome bad porn!" and "Rebellious unfeasible loser's extravaganza 34! GO AWAY!". The spamming lasted 80 pages and over 500 users were killed by the admins. This almost caused the downfall of the usenet, until Japanese ambassadors who know about this conflict appeared and gave the citizens a picture of hentai and their (The internet citizens) cock was like the hulk on cocaine. Then the citizens of the net agreed to cease war, and since this rule has been implemented firmly into the brains of every denzien of the internet since.

And as about long-lasting Impact, The first and most obvious thing is nothing in a franchise can stay pure for more than one day . Once a franchise produces a new character, after 5 minutes to 1 day porn of it will appear in google's shithole known as safe search off. If the character is a female, then porn will appear even when safe search is on and if the keywords "Hentai" or "porn" is entered porn might even appear in strict safe search because the sheer power of rule 34 goes through all filters. The second thing is all your childhood dreams are ruined and raped by the internet. This is due to rule 34 artists are most likely Pedophiles and dog-rapers, which might explain their tendency to draw porn of cartoons that you watched in your childhood. Just search " Flintstones Porn" or "pokemon Hentai" and you know the big idea. Most of them also happen to be japanese, because their fetish tendencies are the most insane .

The rule is also a form of anti- fandom weaponry, And is especially excellent against fanbase of non-anime shows like Ben 10 and My Little Pony, as the fandom of these shows are mostly consisted of 12 year old virgins, which try to keep their internet virginity forever, and is impossible and a proof
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