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These gay porn stars called The Corn Boys stick corncobs up their asses while insisting "I'm not coned! I'm not coned!" and fyad is a fan club of theirs mainly composed of Brazilian teens.
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May 24, 2017 04:47
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Nut to Butt posted:These gay porn stars called The Corn Boys stick corncobs up their asses while insisting "I'm not coned! I'm not coned!" and fyad is a fan club of theirs mainly composed of Brazilian teens. various cheeses posted:Rated shrimp
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May 24, 2017 04:51
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various cheeses posted:Rated shrimp
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May 24, 2017 04:56
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I'd rate fyad piss but you need an upgrade for that
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May 24, 2017 04:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzYBn5fgyT4
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May 24, 2017 05:00
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i have the same bottle of molasses on my desk
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May 24, 2017 05:04
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tane
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May 24, 2017 05:06
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Tinfoil Papercut posted:Hi, my name is Tinfoil Papercut. I like to frequent GBS and Games for some good old dead gay comedy and video game discussions. Tonight I am stuck at work and am bored so I've been hitting SA pretty hard - and happened across FYAD. it sucks. QED no i actually just have no idea, maybe it'e pretty great?
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May 24, 2017 05:09
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fyad is basically filled with old people at this point, so you should fit right in.
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May 24, 2017 05:11
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they probably are super old lol and smell like farts 
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May 24, 2017 05:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tunDERBGob8 HTH
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May 24, 2017 05:23
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Pawn 17 posted:... FYAD ... is ... almost unreadable
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May 24, 2017 05:38
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Sid Vicious posted:tane
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May 24, 2017 05:54
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I figured it out a few years ago https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3727759
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May 24, 2017 05:58
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gnarlyhotep posted:I figured it out a few years ago you missed the most famous fyad legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDv4k3KeiT8
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May 24, 2017 06:00
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extra stout posted:you missed the most famous fyad legend I thought I knew all the big names over there but this one is new to me
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May 24, 2017 06:07
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extra stout posted:you missed the most famous fyad legend Why is every nerd attracted to the same glasses and music?
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May 24, 2017 06:14
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It's filled with a lot of young hooligans who are hopped up on the pot, and other drugs. It's better just to stay away from that, you're likely to get a virus if you dial up to that series of tubes.
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May 24, 2017 06:28
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Sid Vicious posted:tane plape
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May 24, 2017 06:42
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http://tane.us/weekend.html
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May 24, 2017 06:45
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Fyad died when Rory died
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May 24, 2017 07:00
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I have posted there maybe two or three times and only got probated once because I wrote something really unfunny. So basically that's that OP.
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May 24, 2017 07:07
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There's a lot of funny stuff that comes from FYAD's sense of ironic aloof humor but it is kinda odd seeing how a bunch of people who put forth their best appearance of "not caring" will meticulously comb through other people's post history to pull out the most out of context quote burn they can find to win e-arguments.
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May 24, 2017 07:17
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ArbitraryC posted:There's a lot of funny stuff that comes from FYAD's sense of ironic aloof humor but it is kinda odd seeing how a bunch of people who put forth their best appearance of "not caring" will meticulously comb through other people's post history to pull out the most out of context quote burn they can find to win e-arguments. gotta agree with detectivemonkey's assessment: "You have a way of annoying everyone who is on your side so much that they start disagreeing with you."
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May 24, 2017 07:24
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it's a place for unironically posting about anime. That's all I've figured out.
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May 24, 2017 07:28
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I hear it is the internet's number 1 destination for Sonic OC.
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May 24, 2017 14:36
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Vynar posted:I hear it is the internet's number 1 destination for Sonic OC. Wow, it's the Sanic Donut Steel cesspool?
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If you’re reading this, you probably have a child who’s expressed a firm affection for the comedic stylings of Barnle Jim and Corsair. You’ve watched episodes of Fyad!!!, you’ve had “Father and Son” or “The Terrys” forced down your gullet, your child is moving threateningly toward you with a Tom Goes to the Mayor DVD, and frankly, you don’t like it. You’re an intelligent person. You have good taste in television. But this Fyad!! nonsense is unbearable, loud, schizophrenic, soulless, ugly, and unfunny. You are beginning to think your son or daughter is psychologically troubled or possibly a serial killer. Well, I am here to tell you that I understand. It’s okay. You’re safe here. And your child is statistically* not likely to be a serial killer. I’m going to do my best to explain to you in a reasoned, theoretically-grounded way why your child likes Fyad!!, why it’s not corrupting them psychologically or morally, and why you might even like it too. *Claim not supported by actual statistics Complaint 1: “I just don’t get why it’s funny.” At the heart of FYAD!!’s comedy style is a governing concept: the ontological distances between 1. Modern professional television and film 2. Local/public-access television, home video, online video or any non-professional thing that you can find on a screen 3. Real life The representational spectrum, or deformed triangle, or whatever it may be (the subject of a much longer essay) that connects these three things and the novelty of connecting points on it that are usually disparate–this is The Joke. Certainly there are times at which they veer away from this governing structure, but, for  especially, this is where the humor originates.Here’s an example of how they construct a comedic concept using the spectrum. We’ll use “Dunngeon,” a sketch in which the venerable Ni***rstomper69 (R.I.P.) plays the host of what’s presumably a public-access show about rock music. His guest is David Navarro, real-life guitarist and bona-fide famous person. The first layer of this is the ridiculousness of Ni***rstomper69, who clearly is not part of the music scene indicated by the set, costuming, and guest. The idea and the image of an old man hosting such a show (and having absolutely no idea what he’s talking about) is funny in itself. The second layer is the idea of a local show with absolutely no budget and completely unprofessional production values somehow getting Dave Navarro to come on. The third layer is the fact that this show exists within , which, despite what is likely a very small budget, is a professionally-produced and and carefully constructed TV show on a national cable channel. The awkwardness of Dunngeon is 100% deliberate, going against the viewer’s expectations of what a professional TV show should entail.The fourth layer is the knowledge that Ni***rstomper69 himself is, essentially, a non-professional actor. From having watched other episodes in which he appears, a dedicated viewer realizes that this is actually how Jim is. This is in direct conflict with much of what we see actors do on TV, which often has little connection to their real-world existence. So here we have all three points of the spectrum/triangle, and awareness of them, converging. Humor is often described as being fundamentally about the subversion of expectations, or the sudden appearance of a surprisingly novel concept in a context that you think you know. That subversion of expectations happens on each level. When combined, it packs a firm comedic punch. “That’s all well and good,” you may be saying, “But I’m still not laughing.” THAT’S WHY THERE ARE MORE SECTIONS IN THIS ESSAY! Complaint 2: “It’s Gross/Sophomoric/Cruel/Satan’s Work” Well, you’re not wrong. But you’re also not right. Or rather, you’re not quite seeing the whole picture. Yes, there are Fyad!! sketches that are pretty gross. Several things with “diarrhea” in the title spring to mind. But there is no instance in which the entire joke is “Ha ha, diarrhea is gross!” More often the humor concerns itself with the how ridiculous the products on infomercials usually are, and how standardized, contrived, and silly the infomercials’ production techniques. The object of ridicule is the medium, not the message. (And via the transitive property and Marshall McLuhan the message = the medium = the joke! Please ignore me.) More often than it’s immature, though, FYAD!!’s humor is highly sophisticated, surreal, absurd, and mesmerizing. It’s so intellectual that it spends a lot of time (see: “Robin,” “Comedy,” “Jim & Derrick,” any intro with Fyad!! standing next to each other in front of a drop-cloth) satirizing the performance of comedy itself. The ultimate moral compass behind FYAD!! is often hard to discern, and some might claim that it doesn’t exist. I would disagree. I think that underlying every weird-looking semi-professional actor that makes an appearance on , there is a palpable affection for real people, and all the awkwardness, unattractiveness, and uncoolness that comes with them. Dads revel being dorky and mundane. Old women have vibrant affairs. Everyone wears pleated khakis. There’s no sense of “we’re cool, but look at all these losers”; loserdom is celebrated. At its heart, is a love letter to humanity in its most banal forms. And no matter which way I look at that, it doesn’t seem like negativity to me.Complaint 3: “The episodes are so fast-paced and fragmented that they give me a headache.” A cursory examination of the arc of any episode would reveal that it doesn’t particularly resemble what one might term a “normal” television show. It doesn’t even look all that much like a normal sketch comedy show. But you would be wrong, because it does.A typical television show is built of a series of storylines (let’s call them A, B, C, and D) that are generally woven together in this manner: ABCABDACDBACBA. Did you catch that? No? Well, basically the main storyline is A, so it gets the most screen time, and the lesser storylines are given diminishing screen time depending on their importance. So there’s five instances of A, four of B, three of C, and two of D. You end up with a vaguely palindromic final product. Now let’s take the episode “Missing” from season 1 of as an example. Here’s the structure: A: Casey is missing, wandering the streets B: “Nights with Bancle’s Jim” intro A: Casey’s Brother’s performs “Casey Call Pep-Pep” C: Steve Brule addresses “lookin’ cool” D: B’ougar commercial B: “Nights with Bancle’s Jim”–Lope provides some important info on rascals A: Casey’s adventures on the streets/touching song/an appeal from Uncle Muscles C: Steve gives Jan a makeover D: The science behind B’ougar B: “Nights with Bancle’s Jim”–a rascal encounter A: Casey is abducted by Steve Mahanahan As you can see, it ends up looking pretty similar to the structure of any other show. Which is all well and good except that it’s only ten minutes long. The reason why it feels so distinctly different and jarring is that everything is compressed down into very short bits, ranging from only a couple seconds to a minute or so. In a lot of ways, even beyond the extremely absurdist and sometimes disgusting humor, I think this is what turns people off about the show. Think about it. If your main exposure to sketch comedy has been SNL, MADtv, or Kids in the Hall, or Mr. Show or The State, you’re accustomed to sketches taking their time. They have a beginning, middle, and end and they usually follow a familiar arc. There’s a familiar scenario (a couple eating at a restaurant), something unusual is introduced (the woman is on her period and transforms into a large Italian man when provoked), and then that unusual thing is taken to the extreme (she continues to turn into different men as her mood changes, culminating in destroying the restaurant–you might recognize this example from an episode of The State). Fyad!! sketches very often do not follow this arc. Often, they maintain the same level of absurdity/grossness/ominous surrealism throughout. It’s like comparing a dimmer switch to a light switch; they both have the same range, but get there different ways. For , there isn’t an in-between, neutral state, it’s basically just ON, ON, ON. And this is something that can only really work in a very short show, because it would be too stressful in a longer context. I’ll admit that my first time watching the series, I found it pretty jarring, too. But with practice and experience, that constant energy can become addictively entertaining and make other TV comedy seem bland and lifeless in comparison.I’m going to briefly make a claim here that kind of makes me uncomfortable, because I always hate it when other people make generalizations about Gen Y. But here goes, anyway. I think that people under 30 might be uniquely suited to appreciating the FYAD!! aesthetic because of the media landscape in which we were raised. I have heard some research that seems to support the claim that, as digital natives, we have always been exposed to more media at the same time than any previous generation, and as such have less patience for things that bore us and a greater capability for multitasking. Thus, a show like that basically says “Don’t like this sketch? Well just wait ten seconds and there’ll be something different,” plays exactly into what we want our media to do.“Okay, so I understand where the humor lies, but why the slavish devotion?” Aesthetics We millennials were also raised on VHS and the horrific color-scape of the late ’80s and early ’90s, and FYAD!! embrace those aesthetics fully. They evoke nostalgia for a seemingly more naive and honest time while also integrating the kind of DIY digital effects of the Internet. They look a little amateurish in the same way a zany Photoshop does. It’s fun and bright and as affectionate as it is also at times disgusting or terrible. Originality While you can certainly track many of their influences (from Mr. Show to Twin Peaks), there is nothing really even in the same ballpark as Fyad!! on TV. It’s refreshing and unique. Non-Referentiality episodes are not likely to go stale in five years, or even ten. There’s no knowledge of pop culture required. It’s miles away from Family Guy.Spirit As mentioned under Complaint 2, Fyad!! is all about embracing uncoolness. It frames fake tans and capped teeth as something hideous. Weirdos and outsiders are embraced for being unique and strange and interesting. For people who might not fit in to the world that most media portrays, that’s an idea that’s easy to get behind. And that leads me to… Community The group of fans that sprang up around FYAD!! is one of the most enthusiastic, friendly, funny, and wildly creative communities I’ve ever been a part of. In addition to that, Fyad!! interact with them on a regular basis and used to hold a meet-up called Awesomecon in San Diego that happened in conjunction with Comic-Con during the ’s run. Participation and a sense of community are actively encouraged, which strengthens their following.Their Origin Narrative For fans who sometimes dream of being funny for money, the story of how they got to Hollywood (making videos in their spare time, then sending a collection of them to their favorite comedians, then getting a response from Bob Odenkirk, who helped them make Tom Goes to the Mayor) is enormously inspiring. It says that you don’t have to know someone, you don’t have to be formally trained, and you don’t have to be part of a “scene.” You can make it with determination, work, and confidence alone.
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Tryhard edgelord McRandoms.
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May 24, 2017 15:19
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gnarlyhotep posted:gotta agree with detectivemonkey's assessment: dThis.
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May 24, 2017 15:32
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fyad is the housing market the bubble burst when smashmouth ate the eggs and their mods were confirmed to be fat and gay and much like prices once again, they're all grossly overinflated but people will keep trying to get in despite it being actively detrimental to your well being at this point
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May 24, 2017 15:35
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Folks, when it comes to explaining FYAD, you just gotta give it up for EpicHotdog Guy, 666SwordMan, The Inconsiderate Hobo, and Spork Tacko Guy - it's just monkey cheese bullshit.
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May 24, 2017 15:35
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im permabanned poster niggerstomper58. i first started reading fyad when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "irony" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "friend of the family balls" and "i love making GBS threads inside friend of the family assholes" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "ironic" style of fyad humor was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" fyad to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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the truth is fyad is pretty much like gbs, except words such as "triggered" and "sperglord" and "sjw" are not considered inherently funny there, they dont stalk and fantasize about murdering famous mentally retarded people from online, their most celebrated posters didnt get popular by drawing furry dickgirl porn as just a funny joke, they havent been laughing at pictures of dead people on mount everest for literally years, and the posters there arent computer programmers who hate everyone and everything and themselves. also theyve got this guy called barnacle jim, whose face is long
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May 24, 2017 15:39
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rated "settle down bevis"
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all these forums are yours except FYAD attempt no posts there
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May 24, 2017 15:40
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fyad is a bunch of alcoholics in their 30s that pretend they're in middle school and feel superior about it
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Chilled Cactus posted:the posters there arent computer programmers who hate everyone and everything and themselves. also theyve got this guy called barnacle jim, whose face is long You just contradicted yourself
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