Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Internet?

Test your knowledge of the weird world of the world wide web.

Some of the most fun accounts on Twitter are “TXT” accounts that take snippets of disembodied text from a certain website, forum, or social network for comic effect. @TumblrTXT, @Reddit_txt, etc…

They tease out the worst stereotypes - the lonely loser Redditor, the annoying guy explaining stuff on RapGenius, the Tumblr user arguing about priviledge and “otherkin rights”. Seeing these snippets of real text from sites pop up in your Twitter feed without any context is a pure delight.

Here’s a quiz that uses top tweets from a few of these. Can you figure out which site each sentence came from?

1. 1. "TIL living in Nazi Germany as a Jew was easier than living in modern day USA as an atheist."

   1. Reddit
   2. Kickstarter
   3. Wikipedia

   Jeez, Reddit!

   Redditors are obsessed with atheism and prone to insanely overdramatic comparisons to Hitler.

2. 2. "In Predator 2, the main Predator was designed to look more urban and [[hip]] than its predecessor."

   1. Reddit
   2. Wikipedia
   3. Furries messageboard

   Predator Wiki

   I never noticed Predator looked different.

3. 3. "If you drink somebody's pee, you're expected to know that person, to know his or her health problems, if any. You know, it's just like sex."

   1. Pick-Up Artist forums
   2. Furries messageboard
   3. Tumblr

   Ugh, furries.

   Furries are so gross.

4. 4. "As soon as he gets home, he has hot bitches inside already. They're super fly and they have a hot body and face"

   1. Reddit
   2. Pick-Up Artist forum
   3. Rap Genius

   It’s RapGenius, genius

   Who doesn’t love rapgenius.com’s dry and didactic explanation of lyrics?

5. 5. "If you consume dairy or eggs, you are NOT a feminist. The dairy and egg industries are the biggest form of female oppression there is."

   1. BuzzFeed
   2. Wikipedia
   3. Tumblr

   Oh, Tumblr

   The world of “social justice” on Tumblr is vast in its breadth and eye-rollingness.

6. 6. "My wing-man who I trusted and looked up to, turns out to be a closet homosexual."

   1. Kickstarter
   2. Pick-up Artist forums
   3. Rap Genius

   Urgh, PUAs

   Groan. These messageboards are full of guys sharing tips for how to “neg” girls and what opening pickup lines to say.

7. 7. "I don't think any human woman could ever live up to the standards a fictional pony has set."

   1. Reddit
   2. Fanfiction sites
   3. BuzzFeed comments

   Redddddddddddit

   “Pony” is the big tipoff here, since Redditors LOVE My Little Pony.

8. 8. "I need more sloths in my life."

   1. Tumblr
   2. BuzzFeed
   3. Furaffinity

   Obviously

   Who DOESN’T need more sloths? Very reasonable statement, BuzzFeed commentors are geniuses.

9. 9. "It has been months since I was married to Ludacris and a whole year since we turned into lions."

   1. Wikipedia
   2. Rap Genius
   3. Fanfiction sites

   Ultimate WTFery

   This is from a story called “Absurd Love” on Fanfiction.net. Yes, it’s as good as you’d expect.

10. 10. "Yolo Plus, A clothing line for everyone."

    1. Furries
    2. BuzzFeed comments
    3. Kickstarter

    A bad idea on Kickstarter?

    Impossible. YOLO!

Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Internet?

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All quotes in the quiz come from my favorite “TXT” Twitter accounts:

@fanfiction_txt, @TumblrTXT, @rapgenius_txt, @furaffinity_txt , @PUA_txt, @Reddit_txt, and @KickstarterTXT.

Or you can follow this Twitter list that former BuzzFeed intern Brian Feldman made. Easy! Do it! You won’t regret it!