Features At-A-Glance, What You Need to Know To Survive Here Discussion board, "The Hall of Broken Memories", in which we demonstrate very pointly the perversions that break our childhood memories, by posting "spoilers" on pop-culture topics both well-known and obscure The ability to search the Hall of Broken Memories subjects by name, re-sort them by any of numerous categories, and filter results by the genre (film, TV, book, etc.) allow you to quickly dig up the topic that you're looking for The Broken Memories Challenge, in which a topic from our archives that has remained unspoiled is given to you, to scour the Internet searching for its "spoiler". This lets us turn over old topics with ease, and gives the brave and strong-stomached Net surfer an exciting scavenger hunt. With adjustable difficulty levels, based on the length of time the topic has lain unspoiled. The List of Incorruptibles, in which the few topics that we cannot corrupt are enshrined in glory - at least until their day of doom comes. Topics are voted onto this list democratically, with the number of nominations depending on day-to-day board traffic (it's a secret formula.) Leader boards, in which the registered users leading in certain selection board statistics are listed. It is good to take pride in one's battle scars, or so I say. A point system and Medals (awards) which are given to posters and spoilers successful in their endeavors. Site users are also, in part, moderators. Vote on the quality of the "spoilers" to be sure that bad/off-topic spoilers and broken links are rooted out. Logged in users can change the site theme from the default to a number of alternatives (both serious and silly.) Other forums include the General Discussion board, a place to rest your heels after browsing the horrors and in which site announcements appear, and the Questions and Comments board, in which questions or comments for Codehappy about the site can be directed.

Did you have any favorite cartoons as a kid? Movies? Was there a television show that you always stayed up late for? Some great book series that you simply devoured?

Ha, the things you didn't know. Would you believe that somewhere right now, someone's writing stories whoring out your favorite characters in nauseating porn? Illustrating them in positions normally associated with exhibitionists and contortionists? Making posts in an online journal professing their real and undying romantic attraction to them?

You betcha! That's the marvel of the Internet, you see. No matter how innocuous something may be, there's always someone in this online world ready to turn it into a wild circus of perversions.

So are you afraid of what's happened to your old favorites in the time since the evolution of the Internet? Wouldn't it be better have a place where we can notify each other of the death and deflowering of those things, where there's a friendly audience to listen to you vent your frustration, than to stumble across it one day all alone on some dingy back-alley Internet site somewhere?

Enter Broken Memories. Our purpose is to catalog and chronicle these transformations, exactly how the familiar and comfortable was made into the despised and freakish - to capture the moment of the end of music, and the breaking of memories. This gives some deep and revealing insights on the human spirit, and boy gee whiz, it shure ain't purty.

Note that our stance is fairly fatalistic. There's nothing at all we can do to prevent having everything you appreciated as a child raped and abused and gutted by some vile Netizen out there. The best that we can do is to nod our heads wisely at the Internet's folly, laugh nervously, and sharpen our wit on the dullness of others.

Yes, it's pretty cynical, but that's the point. Consider this a sort of frustrated exclamation along the lines of "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!" or a place to lie down all of your childish interests and obsessions and sacrifice them on the altar of Knowledge. With knowledge, there is so little innocence in the world.

Growing up, you learned that there's so much ugly in the world that even harmless fantasies can be ruined by other people. Here we just want to strip you of any illusions that your little world was in any way safe.

Of course, that isn't to say that we are completely hoary and jaded around here. Mostly we just simply cannot believe what some people will spend their time creating. And we cannot believe how deeply some people will dig to find the clay from which to mold their fetishistic fantasies. Are your all-time favorites ars obscura? No matter, sooner or later, they'll get their turn at the rack, too. Amazing the way that works.

So the idea at Broken Memories is very simple, and we fill a valuable niche. We are a sort of interactive reference work. Do you want to know exactly how some specific show has been screwed up seven ways since Sunday? Here it is, in all the gory detail. Or if it isn't, just start a new subject..... and wait.

The kind of people who frequent sites like this pride themselves on their ability to dig up Internet atrocities. They see it as a kind of dare - a game. Do you think that you can come up with a kid's film or television show obscure enough to avoid this cyber-debauching, yet well-known enough to be recognized by the majority of the posters here? If so it can be added to the mystical List of Incorruptibles. We don't expect very many things to stay there long.

You can create a topic thread on your favorite television show, film, book series, whatever - just keep it a "pop culture" topic. Our main focus is on all those fond childhood memories, but if it's occasionally a more adult theme, fair enough. Harry Potter, the Wizard of Oz, Mickey Mouse, Thundercats.... whatever floats your boat. (They've each been utterly destroyed and deflowered, by the way.)

Race to be the first to spoil a topic; see if you can post a topic that remains unspoiled for weeks or months; flame the perverts; tease mercilessly on discovering an especially horrible new atrocity, etc. etc. Can you have sick and twisted fun here? You bet! Do you like taking up the challenge of ruining someone else's fond memories? Oh, is this ever the place for you. Make it a sort of a game, and all of a sudden, the destruction of innocence and your childhood doesn't seem so excruciatingly painful anymore. Nostalgia is for wimps, anyway.

Our goal is to be one-third freak exhibit, one-third support group, and one-third game show. If we can succeed in that, we're a valuable resource.

1. Go into the forums and search for the title or character you're interested in. If it isn't there, start a new subject topic in the name of the film/show. Go ahead and post about all of your fond memories; you'll want to try and remember them after the topic has been completely ruined for you.
2. Now, if you're browsing the subject topics and you know of something particularly atrocious that can ruin those memories, by all means, post a new "spoiler" in the thread!

   What's a good spoiler? Any of the following might be good enough to corrupt the topic:

   • Fan art of an "adult" or particularly disgusting or disturbing nature, contrary to the original purpose of the show.
   • Fan fiction, as above.
   • For that matter, official art or fiction of a horrifying nature.
   • Pages by obsessive-repulsive fans that suck fun and joy away. (Yes, obsessive-repulsive fans. When you see one, you'll know.)
   • Anything else on the Internet that suddenly leaves you with an icky sticky feeling about the subject.

Any spoiler must have a URL address, i.e. you found it somewhere on the Internet. DO NOT link any "spoiler" or adult images directly in a post! Put the URL in the "spoiler" field when you make a reply post. That way your reply will be tagged as a "spoiler" and can be quickly found by any interested parties.

3. So, did the "spoiler" someone posted utterly disgust you? Was it tame? Was it off-topic? Go ahead and vote on it. Then we can see which "spoilers" have the worst reputation, and which are no good or off-topic, and can be removed.
4. You can also post replies without any "spoilers" attached. This is good if you want to simply discuss the topic, or discuss a "spoiler" someone else posted. Please try and keep posts on-topic, though. I don't care about the filthiness or cleanliness of your language, but let's keep discussion at a reasonably mature level, at least.

Oh, and one more thing.....

The fact is, I'm a firm believer in free speech. If you get jollies from pissing on other people's memories, congratulations and good for you - as long as you're not abusing anyone in real life I couldn't give a damn, although I would want to avoid you and consider you utterly nuts. But this site is really only funny if you're horrified by it.

And if you're here looking for perverted pictures of your cartoon character of choice, well, I hope you trip over an off-topic thread a hundred posts long and drown in the irrelevancy. Nyah nyah nyah.

We are really, really not kidding when we say that the material linked to from this site can ruin your most cherished childhood memories. Some of the stuff linked to from the posts here is possibly very disturbing indeed. If you have a weak constitution, this is probably not the kind of site you should visit. If you're not an adult, this is definitely not the kind of site you should visit. Go somewhere safe and enjoy your childhood while it's still not ruined. I couldn't have you playing with such sharp toys as are around here.

There's no adult material actually on this site itself, however, so don't flip out if someone redirects you to some gawdawful smut somewhere. You're being pointed to some of the darker corners of the Internet with these "spoilers" - they can really hurt sometimes.

Still here? Great, you either belong here or you're very good at ignoring warnings. Either way, I hope you enjoy your stay here. And by "enjoy" I mean "be completely mortified at seeing long-held pleasant memories dissolve in the bilious excretions of a random Internet pervert."

The General Discussion forum. A work-safe corner of this site. After the ugliness, have a glass of iced tea (or beverage of your choice), relax a bit, and trade war stories. Or just try to forget. We're all here for you.

Questions & comments forum. Just as it says. Questions, comments and suggestions about this site for Codehappy can go here.

As featured on (and quickly destroyed by) Slashdot, 3 May 2003