I wish I could understand the mentality behind this.
The formula is simple:
User-produced visual content + Internet + Social
= Penises
This is true for every single example I can think of. That Flash-based multiplayer platformer where users could edit the level? Spore. Forums where people can post images. Image sharing sites. Either you have male genitalia running rampant, or the site wages a never-ending active program of preventing it.
I was thinking of Gabe's persona and that equation as well when I formulated this one. Gabe's distribution of photographs of his own genitalia through the social infrastructure of online games is a recurring comic theme on Penny Arcade.
The formula is simple:
This is true for every single example I can think of. That Flash-based multiplayer platformer where users could edit the level? Spore. Forums where people can post images. Image sharing sites. Either you have male genitalia running rampant, or the site wages a never-ending active program of preventing it.