Touching on a lighter note today, I will lay into the shit, that is Freewebs. Not the actual website itself today, but the mongrel race of which it’s membership comprises. A couple of years ago, Freewebs was full of wonderful sites, that had some nice original content and some hard working web masters. But in recent times, it has come to my attention, that most sites there nowadays, are just boring old easy-builders, with a few Youtube videos, a few miniclip games, a crappy website award competition and a guestbook with four ‘comments’ in it, three of which are advertisements from other crappy sites, and one of which is a comment by the web-master, saying welcome. It just isn’t original anymore people! Actually, it never even was!
Now, as a guy who started off at the bottom some years ago, I can sometimes sympathize with some sites, where the owner looks as though they have tried to put in some of their own work. But no, all these sites, must insist on being completely unoriginal, boring bastards.
EXHIBIT A: http://www.freewebs.com/funking/
Ah, a classic example. The king of fun, you say? I beg to differ, as I can watch the same crap from your site on about a hundred others. Well this ticks all of my boxes so far, some games from another site, some Youtube films, and a crappy competition. Oh wow! We even have some extra ‘original’ stuff, some game cheats, and, what’s this I see? Theme Park information? Get out. Okay. I’ll stop being satirical now, and explain my point. The content of this site, can be seen on about a thousand others on Freewebs. Which makes it even more unoriginal. Also, if you see something that could be original (game cheats, theme park info, home made porn), it has more than likely been copy and pasted from another site. Further more, this guy doesn’t have any original content on this site, except a few videos of him and his ‘cool’ (possibly retarded) pals doing poor imitations of Jackass, thinking it makes them look hard. Okay, i’ve shamed this site enough.
^^ Hardcore retards.
Now, another thing which makes Freewebs even crappier these days, is people commenting on guestbooks. I always like to see a post such as: “Hey! I like your site dude! Your content’s really original and your ideas are good. Have a nice day!” or “Hey! Your site’s doing okay so far, but I think a bit more original content would improve it.”. But no, instead I now seem to see comments like this: “OMG your site is totally awesome, visit mine now, with all of my games and videos, click here! it’s address is www.freewebs.com/totallyunoriginalsite! visit it now! XD
“, which the commenter has obviously copy and pasted onto about 30 other websites. I’m going to name and shame again now.
EXHIBIT B: Poster: Funking – On website: FreakStory (which is a dead website)
“funking: Hey kool site plz visite myne and sign my g-book www.freewebs.com/funking”
Okay. This has been posted on several other sites, with the exact same crappy spelling and punctuation. Now this is another thing which gets me about these sites, they seem to desire nothing more than to have complete strangers sign there “gbook” (guestbook, shoutbox, whatever). I honestly don’t see the pleasure in having someone coming on your site and posting: “yoyo thanx 4 visitng my site. ur sites teh 1337. visit my site for all teh most ORIGINAL games on da web!”.
Now, i’m going to turn to the people who ‘run’ these websites. They come in a variety of forms and breeds. Here I will give you the profiles of them.
Poké Kid
Name: Billy Johnson.
Age: 10
Website: http://www.freewebs.com/coolfun
Comments: i like football and miniclip and games and fun and stuff. go redskins!!!!1 NARUTO!
Picture: Click Here
Often found: Playing football with friends.
WoW Fan
Name: Christopher McDonald
Age: 15
Website: http://www.freewebs.com/christopherclan
Comments: Level 67 on Runescape and WoW. Join my clan, and help me kill some n00bs.
Picture: Click Here
Often found: Always playing WoW, alowing two hours a day for food, drink and sleep.
Resident Paedophile
Name: Old Red
Age: 30 – 60 (profile says 13)
Website: http://www.freewebs.com/sexyboy
Comments: Looking for friends aged 10-15. Very open minded 13 year old, who’s into Pokemon?
Picture: Click Here (not posted on profile)
Often found: Watching child porn, scratching belly button.
They are probably the most common members of Freewebs, and probably the people I would least enjoy meeting (aprat from Old Red). So, there you have it. A quick round up boys and girls, Freewebs users these days are normally total jerks, who are guestbook-comment obsessed, and who never have their own original content. Good night!
August 29, 2008 at 5:41 pm |
You forgot the Jesus freaks. Other than that, nice job.
August 29, 2008 at 9:14 pm |
Unfortunately, I haven’t come across the religious types that much. Thanks for the compliment.
September 1, 2008 at 8:35 am |
Pravitelstvo Rossii Rulit Vovka i Dimka Maladzi
Pendosbi oleni sosite chlen
September 9, 2008 at 8:23 pm |
I see. Wait, no I don’t.
September 17, 2008 at 7:19 am |
Although freewebs sucks, I gotta work with what I got. I’m an artist who unfortunately is too lazy to worry about the whole hosting thing to get a website. But I’m a VERY original artist and make flash animation, videos, pictures, music, I do a lot of stuff and even my work has fan videos and far art in it. So I think my website is the exception to your frewebs rant. Check it out and tell me if I’m wrong or not.
http://scootofwhookos.webs.com/
September 17, 2008 at 7:23 am |
I’d also like to note that I just opened this website because I moved away from the old one. So the view count on the old one was over 60,000 views. So I think I’ve done pretty good for myself. Just didn’t want to give you the wrong impression since the current counter on my website only has over 800 views. Of course I got those withing the last 2 days.
September 17, 2008 at 11:09 pm |
You also forgot the doll sites. They make the same kind of graphics(but do I see coded layouts?!?! NOOOO!!!) And yes I have a freewebs website. But that doesn’t mean that I go into the community. I did it to have fun and get my creativity out! And yes. I absolutly hate the jeasus freaks.
September 20, 2008 at 6:17 pm |
HakuAnime…
Heated Gaming Discussion…
October 2, 2008 at 11:50 pm |
hey u never talked about any of the art sites…there are 100s of fan art sites created by ppl who make graphics etc…alot of them look the same…however, some of them are not so bad. I just found this blog of yours while searching for a way to use wordpress on my freewebs account because apparently if you dont use one of their ugly templates (do your own coding) they refuse to help you with anything. Their retarded blog wont let anyone posts comments on my site and even I can’t edit them without getting a stupid error like “oops something funny has occurred”…wt…
October 21, 2008 at 2:03 pm |
Good day! viagra generique
November 13, 2008 at 7:04 am |
games…
You are the last……
February 13, 2009 at 12:01 am |
The funny part of this rant is that it’s completely true.
@ Comments: Even though there are many handfuls of religious sites hosted on Freewebs, generally they aren’t the ones spamming guestbooks and the official forums with “COM ESEE MY SITE” posts.