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Mr. T Ate My Balls!
What's this about eating balls? How could anyone arrive at such a bizarre topic for a web site? Nehal Patel and his friends found their inspiration for the now infamous site one night when the group turned a broken exit sign in their dorm into a Mr. T Ate My Balls precursor. In order to fill the void left by the sign's removal, the group immortalized their need for tasteless jokes by capitilizing on the Internet's ability to just post something and leave it there.
Since the site was created (1996?), it has garnered such notoriety that there are now over 500 parody sites! However, in spite of it's cyber-popularity, Mr. T's ball-munching antics have yet to make it mainstream. When asked in an interview with Wired Magazine about why the site has remained mainly an underground phenomenon left untouched by major media, Patel simply responded, "Maybe it's because of the nature of the site." Go figure.
This site is of particular interest in regards to iStuff and Popular Culture for a number of reasons, but mostly for its numerous parodies. The Internet, unlike any media before, has enabled anyone with a computer and limited technological know-how to create and post virtually anything. The ability to share and distribute information is overwhelming.
Mr. T Ate My Balls as an exit sign had a limited, isolated audience. The same concept as a web site, though, has reached and, oddly enough, inspired thousands. Also worth noting is the fact that the images used in the site were pulled off the web! A simple idea created via the Internet, made popular via the Internet. Amazing.
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Related links and such:
Yahoo Listing: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/ Humor__Jokes__and_Fun Tasteless_Humor / Ate_My_Balls/Keep on Munching by NetSlaves
http://www.wired.com/news/ interviews 0,1650,36469,00.htmlThe Ate My Balls Ring
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/ hub?index&ring=diverse
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