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Disturbing Trends v 2.0 - THE RECKONING!
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Disturbing Trends v 2.0 - THE RECKONING!

July 16th, 2008

I’ve mentioned before, on a few occasions, that we here at NR attract certain…subcultures we’ll call them. We’re fine with this. On the one hand, who am I to tell “you” what you should do with your free time. And, more readers is more readers regardless if said readers are perverts.

But a new trend is emerging, and this one is…well…more than disturbing.

Why are these people finding us?

See that one at the bottom there? What the fuck is that? OK, I’ll admit that, yes, we did produce a comic in which a character (me) went a little “GTA” in a public space. But he did so with a water gun…in his underwear…while drunk. There is no mention of actually shooting someone with a real gun, or more importantly, shooting members of any specific racial group.

If you’re coming here for racist propaganda, boy howdy are you in the wrong corner of the interwebz. I get that the vast array of “tubes” that connects everything in this, the cyberspace, works in weird and mysterious ways, but guess what happens if you put in that specific search entry (”shooting black people gta web comic” that is) in google? Normality Restored comes up FIRST! Out of 289,000 hits, no less! That’s not right. I mean, if it was just “gta web comic”, or even “shooting gta web comic” I’d be fine with that. But this makes me feel dirty…in a bad way.

Am I getting worked up for nothing over this?

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Tags: Disturbing Search Terms, Interwebz, Our Disfunctional Readership

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  1. CountBl00d
    July 16th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    umm wtf indeed =-=

  2. exsulis
    July 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    hmm, maybe……

  3. Tengu
    July 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Now if I do google said phrase, won’t that just increase the hit potential for NR to come up in the first spot?

  4. exsulis
    July 16th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Well, only if you actually click the google link will it increase the potential for NR to come in the first spot.

  5. Tengu
    July 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Hey there’s no furries search this time?

  6. Kerri
    July 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Or bacon, or porn either. We must be losing our touch.

  7. CountBl00d
    July 16th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    but porno bacon is still pretty popular
    *Searches google*
    Porno Bacon- 549,000 hits

    AWESOME

  8. kilian
    July 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Good to see “our” type of people are still prevalent.

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