mikrosopht asks : as i understand it, the word bobba is used specifically to censor explicit content in the habooboo arena. therefore what exactly are you trying to say by posting large bobba .gifs under your names? are you cursing the online community or simply embracing free speech?

That was my idea, I bastardized the Habbo logo to make it say, "bobba," the word used to censor words Habbo Ltd. find offensive. I, like most of the habbos with a sound, independant (relative to common sense and decent judgement) mind, am opposed to the filter only because words are only made naughty by intention. Don't get me wrong, I don't think 8 years olds should be seeing curses on the regular but if I unchecked the "Bobba Filter" box in room options, I am expecting to see "naughty" words in my rooms, the rooms I made for friends to hang out in, the rooms I spent money on. Anyone can get to a photo of boobs in 7 clicks or less meanwhile I can't say "ass" in a room I spent my own cash on. Okay, I'm off on a tangent. Here comes the point. There are tons of online anarchists out there, people who are foul-mouthed and carry no responsibility for their actions while on the Net. This is a group of people I wish would get hit by 12 strains of the Code Red virus. Why? Because they are the ones who drain the Internet of it's creativity. They turn an online exhibit of Alfred Stieglitz's (X) nude studies of Georgia O'Keeffe (X) into general porn and aren't shy about letting their warped views be known to a nameless, faceless forum created by a dramatically lonely, two-finger typing, low-life of a Netizen who's idea of html involves IMG SRC tags and default text. Am I an elitist? Sometimes. But I have my reasons - and they don't sound like Ozzy Ozbourne lyrics. So this brings me to why I jumped into censorship issues in the first place. If I was to say, "I placed the word 'bobba' at the end of posts as an act of closure, a sigh of relief free of any true linguistic meaning. It's a nonsense word that sums everything up and expresses what some would call inappropriate," the online anarchist would read that as, "yea right you fuckin pervert, you just want to fuck the shit out of every habbo, eat shit and die you loser. bobba bbba bobba free funri, credz bobba bobba." We've all seen this. So, I'll take the quiet route and say "it means whatever you want it to mean." I'm comfortable with that explanation and you're either pissed off and think I'm a loser, satisfied with my reasoning, unsatisfied because my writing is cold and robotic, you don't care, you never cared in the first place and/or something else I can't think of right now. So there it is. Art (X).

minusbaby 6:51 PM