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'''Consumption Junction''', established in 1999, is a web-based depository for all things random and bizarre. The site includes pictures, videos, audio clips, and other forms of media. The content can vary from news clips of events like the September 11, 2001 attacks, to random videos of drunken silliness and violent stupidity to hardcore pornographic shorts. The name "Consumption Junction" and its slogan "What's your Dysfunction" is based on ''[[wikipedia:Schoolhouse_Rock!|Schoolhouse Rock]]'''s song "Conjunction Junction", but parodied | '''Consumption Junction''', established in 1999, is a web-based depository for all things random and bizarre. The site includes pictures, videos, audio clips, and other forms of media. The content can vary from news clips of events like the September 11, 2001 attacks, to random videos of drunken silliness and violent stupidity to hardcore pornographic shorts. The name "Consumption Junction" and its slogan "What's your Dysfunction" is based on ''[[wikipedia:Schoolhouse_Rock!|Schoolhouse Rock]]'''s song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg Conjunction Junction]", but parodied | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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==Animal Controversy== | ==Animal Controversy== | ||
Consumption Junction has a history of backlash from visitors due to animal cruelty. Due to the site's nature, visitors would assume that the webmasters are toying with the visitor's emotions by showing shocking animal death. Now videos that involve some form of "Animal Cruelty" are linked to Peta.org with the message, "If this vid pissed you off, then do something about it! Click here to donate to PETA!!" | Consumption Junction has a history of backlash from visitors due to animal cruelty. Due to the site's nature, visitors would assume that the webmasters are toying with the visitor's emotions by showing shocking animal death. Now videos that involve some form of "Animal Cruelty" are linked to Peta.org with the message, "If this vid pissed you off, then do something about it! Click here to donate to [[Wikipedia:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA]]!!" | ||
On March 8, 2006, Consumption Junction posted a video of a kitten being violently stomped on by an Asian woman. The webmaster has publicly announced that he witnessed many shocking images of various events but the killing of an innocent kitten being impaled by high heels just made him cry. There's been more videos of the same woman stepping on other animals such as a puppy and a white rabbit. | On March 8, 2006, Consumption Junction posted a video of a kitten being violently stomped on by an Asian woman. The webmaster has publicly announced that he witnessed many shocking images of various events but the killing of an innocent kitten being impaled by high heels just made him cry. There's been more videos of the same woman stepping on other animals such as a puppy and a white rabbit. | ||
On May 3, 2006, one of the webmasters acknowledge an angry visitor who e-mailed him about animal cruelty by posting the visitor's e-mail and his response. The argument begins when the visitor, named Lisa, threatens to call the authority to take off the animal content which angers the webmaster because he feels that she's ignoring the fact that there's a donation link to Peta.org and that his intentions are bad. The visitor writes that his intentions are to glorify and profit by showing animal cruelty. The webmaster finally ends the debate by responding to portions of the e-mail that made him the angriest. In the end, he feels that by showing the deaths of animals, he will create awareness and give the visitor the opportunity to donate to | On May 3, 2006, one of the webmasters acknowledge an angry visitor who e-mailed him about animal cruelty by posting the visitor's e-mail and his response. The argument begins when the visitor, named Lisa, threatens to call the authority to take off the animal content which angers the webmaster because he feels that she's ignoring the fact that there's a donation link to Peta.org and that his intentions are bad. The visitor writes that his intentions are to glorify and profit by showing animal cruelty. The webmaster finally ends the debate by responding to portions of the e-mail that made him the angriest. In the end, he feels that by showing the deaths of animals, he will create awareness and give the visitor the opportunity to donate to PETA. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
