The Exciting World of the Internet Underground

You Know You Are Curious

The internet. A wonderful place of learning and information? A vast uncharted universe where you can meet your next wife, earn $10,000 a month, and frag some 10 year olds from Korea in Halo?

Yes, you can do these things. You can also delve into the land of the hacker, deviant, bored, trouble-causing, somewhat illegal, hilarious areas that you probably don't understand. Until they raid YOU.

I worked for ChaCha for a little over a month and during my time there I was victim to many, many, many pranks and raids. I didn't really mind because some of them were pretty funny. Granted, I ended up getting discharged because I played along with one or two. I had no idea there were many websites with areas purely dedicated to harassment and organized raids. I was a little skeptical when I was told to check out one or two of these sites. I will mention Ebaumsworld for the sake of this article but there are many, many more than that.

I logged into the Ebaumsworld forums just for kicks to see what this area of the internet was all about. This is what I discovered.

Photoshopping

Some of the most hilarious things I have ever seen in my entire life can be found in this forum and others like it. They can only be classified in a few ways. Pornographic, Racist, Offensive to (you name it), Possibly Illegal. Every picture of an African-American seems to have chicken and watermelon photoshopped into it, the 9-11 attacks are everywhere filled with wrestlers, muppets, etc., lots of Steve Irwin and Terry Shaivo also. I won't get into greater detail than that.

On the flip side, there are many very cute photoshops of kittens and various animals with funny sayings pasted to them.

Raids

I discovered many areas on this forum and other similar forums that are dedicated strictly for bothering people. Some of the hardest hit sites are:

Stickam.com-A MySpace type place with live webcams of the users online. It is considered a great accomplishment to have the people put a keyboard or shoe on top of their head.