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Talking With Images: Is Dump.fm the New 4Chan?

by Art Fag City on May 26, 2010 · 62 comments

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON

I wrote a short post for Urlesque today on the image chat website dump.fm. The teaser below.

Typing is so passé. At least this is the impression I have while I’m on dump.fm, a new (often NSFW) image chat room co-founded by Internet Archaeology‘s Ryder Ripps, Scott Ostler of the publishing framework MIT Exhibit and core social bookmark programmer for Delicious, Tim Baker.

Here users post animated gifs, manipulated and found images and webcam shots as a means of conversing. The site has more than 2,000 registered users and the pace of exchange is frighteningly quick. Post too slowly and you’ll be bombarded with glittering images from users reading “Still learning to dump.”

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  • http://dump.fm ryder

    dear ray, yes we worked with matt.

  • http://tommoody.us tom moody

    Having now spent more time on dump and seen what I suppose are “direct action elements” and “invasion exploits” from 4Chan users I can now make a considered comment about them:
    http://dump.fm/p/tommoody/864927

  • http://tommoody.us tom moody

    Having now spent more time on dump and seen what I suppose are “direct action elements” and “invasion exploits” from 4Chan users I can now make a considered comment about them:
    http://dump.fm/p/tommoody/864927

  • http://tommoody.us tom moody

    Having now spent more time on dump and seen what I suppose are “direct action elements” and “invasion exploits” from 4Chan users I can now make a considered comment about them:
    http://dump.fm/p/tommoody/864927

  • http://tommoody.us tom moody

    I now get what “direct action elements” and “invasion elements” are and understand the reason for Samson’s vague language here. The “really scary, ingenious, beautiful, hilarious, highly politicized environment” Samson praises leaves the airy-fairy world of mere aesthetics and engages in mass harassment of people it deems unworthy. Spamming the victim’s comments (if the victim has a blog), tracking down the victim’s email and spamming it, then finding out where the victim lives and going into “full raid mode” (“Pizzas and UPS boxes were promptly ordered to [victim's] home and there were a number of requests for Craigslist whores in the area to be directed to the address.”) Doing all that to an eleven year old is indeed an area dump.fm hasn’t explored and it’s great that Samson has pointed out the distinction. (See http://gawker.com/5589103/how-the-internet-beat-up-an-11+year+old-girl and http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Kerligirl13 )

  • http://tommoody.us tom moody

    I now get what “direct action elements” and “invasion elements” are and understand the reason for Samson’s vague language here. The “really scary, ingenious, beautiful, hilarious, highly politicized environment” Samson praises leaves the airy-fairy world of mere aesthetics and engages in mass harassment of people it deems unworthy. Spamming the victim’s comments (if the victim has a blog), tracking down the victim’s email and spamming it, then finding out where the victim lives and going into “full raid mode” (“Pizzas and UPS boxes were promptly ordered to [victim's] home and there were a number of requests for Craigslist whores in the area to be directed to the address.”) Doing all that to an eleven year old is indeed an area dump.fm hasn’t explored and it’s great that Samson has pointed out the distinction. (See http://gawker.com/5589103/how-the-internet-beat-up-an-11+year+old-girl and http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Kerligirl13 )

  • http://tommoody.us tom moody

    I now get what “direct action elements” and “invasion elements” are and understand the reason for Samson’s vague language here. The “really scary, ingenious, beautiful, hilarious, highly politicized environment” Samson praises leaves the airy-fairy world of mere aesthetics and engages in mass harassment of people it deems unworthy. Spamming the victim’s comments (if the victim has a blog), tracking down the victim’s email and spamming it, then finding out where the victim lives and going into “full raid mode” (“Pizzas and UPS boxes were promptly ordered to [victim's] home and there were a number of requests for Craigslist whores in the area to be directed to the address.”) Doing all that to an eleven year old is indeed an area dump.fm hasn’t explored and it’s great that Samson has pointed out the distinction. (See http://gawker.com/5589103/how-the-internet-beat-up-an-11+year+old-girl and http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Kerligirl13 )

  • http://snoopon.me Maxim Kharchenko

    With Snoopon.me you can even avoid not just typing but selection of a witty image too – your update is a snapshot of your computer screen (sic!)

  • http://snoopon.me Maxim Kharchenko

    With Snoopon.me you can even avoid not just typing but selection of a witty image too – your update is a snapshot of your computer screen (sic!)

  • http://snoopon.me Maxim Kharchenko

    With Snoopon.me you can even avoid not just typing but selection of a witty image too – your update is a snapshot of your computer screen (sic!)

  • http://tommoody.us tom moody

    My link to Encyclopedia Dramatica’s explanation of “direct action elements” and “invasion elements” is dead as of this month. ED self-sanitized and is now called “Oh Internet.”

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