Picdumps suck.

I don’t hate picdumps as a theory. As a theory, they’re awesome. Find a bunch of funny pictures, throw them in your blag, and everyone can enjoy your digital treasures.

No, my quarrel with picdumps only appears in practice.

Because in practice, these awesome, amazing, ideas full of hilarious pictures and general happiness for all are terrible. Terrible. [repeated for emphasis]

I’m an avid Stumbler (which is to say, I waste countless hours clicking the StumbleUpon button when I should be, well, not clicking the StumbleUpon button). It’s gotten to the point where if I’m using a browser that doesn’t have the StumbleUpon button on the top right, I feel hopelessly lost in the internet.

Back to the point: Most picdumps are terribly designed, terribly implemented, and just a blight on my otherwise blissful stumbling. They tend to fall into one of three categories:

1. Shitty english picdumps.

These are the ones that have some disclaimer at the top that says something along the lines of:

“MAN I DO LOVE PICTURES LOL I GOT ALL THESE PICTURES IN MY YAHOO LOL DO YOU USE YAHOO LOL”

or

“My friend Susan just sent me all of these HILARIOUS pictures, I thought I should share them LOL. These will have you “ROFL” all day! :)”

or

“Look at all these hot sexy funny pictures click links they’re so lol”

2. Shitty foreign picdumps

I’m not bashing on foreign countries by any means, but for some reason 90% of the foreign sites I get Stumbled to are shitty picdump sites.

To this end, I have somewhat of a dislike for Russia because according to all of my knowledge, Russia is a country full of people who abuse HTML often and like to talk in broken english.

Both of these picdump types are then followed by 50 or so pictures of stuff that I’ve seen everywhere before, and most of which have no relation at all to the title of the picdump, which is nearly always some dorky almost-funny title like “WTF Pics LOL” or “You should have been fired LOL”.

All of these picdumps contain the abbreviation LOL. Nearly always capitalized, which not only makes it look dumb, it makes the writer of the LOL look like an internet-illiterate 40-year-old, which is what I always imagine them to be.

Somewhat like this:

That’s what you look like if you capitalize ‘lol’. To me. In my head.

That lady makes picdumps. Cat lady. Cat lady makes picdumps.

Don’t be Cat lady.