why I love the internet, pt. 392

So a while back I run across one of those things you inevitably run across online when venturing beyond the well-scrubbed and brightly lit acreages of the corporate shopping zones- a video of a monkey getting it on then absentmindedly eating eating its own spunk.

(And I ain't kidding, so don't click unless you mean it.)

It's the kind of thing that's gross but kinda funny because it's gross, and it's an internet-specific experience- you're not going to see it on TV, you're not going to accidentally run across it a the video store.

So, however you feel about its content the video is a fairly generic online experience.

What makes it brilliant are the user comments from Metafilter prior to its deletion:

Dude, did you seriously just post a 15 second clip of a monkey banging another monkey and then eating his own spooge?
posted by Justinian

Dude, did you seriously just watch it, knowing what it would be?
posted by 2or3whiskeysodas

someday everyone will have videophones and this will be my answering machine message.
posted by snofoam

August 19, 2006 1:42 PM EST ... the precise date and time when western civilization jumped the shark
posted by pyramid termite

I get it! It's a metaphor for the human condition!
posted by onkelchrispy

I can't stop myself from clicking on this link. I have a feeling that a strong wave of regret will soon wash over me.
posted by smackwich

Can --> should. What's not to understand?

Now if you'll excuse me, I just realized I have a moral imperative to go skull-fuck a hobo.
posted by gramschmidt

this is the defining post of my generation.
posted by Stynxno

A group of strangers come together to elevate a fairly pedestrian video clip of a monkey eating its own spunk into art.

This, my friends, is the transformative power of the internet.