Internet Disease

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

Typical Internet Disease.

Displaying old, faded, blurred or otherwise non-descript photographs of oneself, taken with bad lighting and at awkward angles, on the Internets in order to make you appear more attractive to people online than you are IRL. Internet disease was invented in 1998 by Natsuki, a Jap living in Michigan at the time.

1 How Internet Disease Works
2 Techniques
3 See Also
4 External Links

[edit] How Internet Disease Works

Internet disease manifests itself in different symptoms.

An internet diseased photo is taken with the subject standing at an angle, thereby hiding his or her obesity. Also the contrast of the photo is increased dramatically in order to obscure unattractive facial features, like acne and the nose.

By using such techniques, which are dealt with in greater detail below, individuals afflicted with the Internet disease are able to conceal the fact that they are an unattractive person, and instead become a figure envied by others. In a desperate attempt to look like the victims of Internet disease, admirers use the very same techniques as the admiree(s), thus further propagating the disease.

In 2004, the World Health Organization released statistics showing that over 30 million teenage girls in the United States alone suffer from Internet disease (ID), over half of which have led to disappointing meetings with IRC and AOL boys. The paper also claimed that ID is especially dangerous because desperate men far too often end up having unprotected sex with female ID sufferers anyway, leading to the birth of many ID inherent babies, causing the problem to live on. The WHO has suggested the immediate use of condoms and sterility surgery for all men on the Internets, as well as fallopian-tying for all ID female sufferers.

[edit] Techniques

Example of a screenshot taken by someone who shouldn't play with Screen Properties anymore.

Fat girl angle shot
- 45° Birds-eye"
- 180° Overhead
High contrast
- Over-saturation
- Over-contrast / brightness
Low contrast
- Sepia tone (hide acne)
- Black and White (hide everything)
Photomanip
Misleading thumbnail
Sex by association
Chinstrap
Old Pics
If all else fails: Lens flare

[edit] See Also

[edit] External Links

Natsuki, creator of Internet Disease, c. 1998.	Andrewpants showing off Internet disease skills.	Hep showing off non-sufficient internet disease skillz.	Hypnox showing off sufficient internet disease skillz.
And you'd never know the difference.	R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Supermarine Spitfire, showing off his supreme anachronistic internet disease skillz.	Internet Disease aflicts all age groups. This lady is 61 years old, but the shoddy webcam blurs the wrinkles of time quite nicely.	There is not enough Internet Disease in the world to help Chin-chan.
Extreme angle shots to the point where your face is completely obscured gets you lots of compliments on the internet.		Internet disease can only cover up so much, after that it's up to you to hit the treadmill.	High contrast and she still killed herself
This is what happens when you are desperate for a MySpace photo. She will probably get screwed by every boy in America before she's 16.	sweetthang103 is employing use of high contrast and 'please think I'm thin' upper angle disguise shot.	A rebel who's too cool to care.	The too cheap for a mirror effect.
The blurry method. She thinks she can hide her fugly.