LiquidGeneration.com

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Liquid Generation is a humor website based out of Beverly Hills, California founded by Mike Freud, Bruce Freud, James Choma, and Ian Koening in 1999. The site receives more than 50 million hits per month. The site features humorous games and videos as well as a large selection of humorous sabotage pages. Various features on the site include the talents of regular performers Slippy, Monkey, Elmo, Uncle Tito, Helga and others.

1 Features
2 Sabotages
3 Criticism
4 External links

[edit] Features

Many video features on the site parody popular media such as the sketch, "I Love the 20's", spoofing the popular VH1 miniseries "I Love the 80's", "70's" and "90's". Other features include a fictitious documentary on the Hollywood sign, which attributes the loss of the last four letters to a freak tsunami. In reality, the sign, originally reading "Hollywoodland", became "Hollywood" due to wind damage.

Liquid Generation also features viral videos, including "The Mystery of Britney Spears' Breasts" one of the oldest and most popular videos created by the site.

Other popular features include "Suck My News Weekly", a tongue-in-cheek news program highlighting various happenings in politics and the entertainment world. Hosted by surly, grating cartoon anchorman Phillip Norris, (originally Phillip Morris, but changed for obvious reasons), the series consists of scathing commentary on current news and hilarious mock interviews. Previous guests to the show include Osama Bin Laden, Britney Spears, and Harry Potter. Norris' appearance has matured with site over the years, looking much more detailed today than he did during Liquid Generation's early days.

During the filming of the motion picture "Snakes on a Plane", producers scheduled five additional days of reshoots to incorporate, among other scenes, Samuel L. Jackson's instantly famous line, "Enough is enough! I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' plane!" partially inspired by a comedic sketch and interview with the film's director, David R. Ellis, in anticipation of the film that appeared on the Liquid Generation website. Link. Numerous references to the film can also be found elsewhere on the site. The famous line said by Samuel L. Jackson inspired Liquid Generation to make a cartoon called Snakes On A Bible which was the bible read by Samuel L. Jackson. In the cartoon, he refers to some stuff as "muthafuckin". The word is censored each time it's said, but "mutha" is still heard.

[edit] Sabotages

Sabotages are one of the most popular pages of Liquid Generation. All of which are pranks, but not all of them are screamers. After the shock, there's usually a sabotage song and a ninja that tells you where you can find more at the end.

The Color Vision Deficiency Test is one their most popular sabotages. In the prank, the user has to look at a color plate, fill in the number, and click "check it" to see weather or not he/she is colorblind. Clicking "check it" shows what a normal eye would see and what a colorblind eye would see. After a series of plates, the user sees an unclear 5. The 5 looks like an abstract scribble. By ethier concentrating on the number hard or clicking "check it", Dr. Judith Kutter (from Basket Case) appears, along with a scream.

Another popular sabotage is Optical Illusions. The viewer sees a collection of mind-blowing optical illusions. However, at the sixth illusion, there is a spiral. After a while, a closeup of a rat appears and screams.

Seal is a great example of a non-screamer sabotage. The flash shows a seal explaining that she loves you so much. Then after she says, "From a very special friend", a flashing background with "www.Analsex.com" typed down appears and a male voice yells out, "Analsex.com! ALL ANAL!!! ALL THE TIME!". The shock is actually meant not to be scary, but unexpected. Though it's still a tad startling.

[edit] Criticism

The website has been heavily criticized for promoting privacy problems. The illegal movie download and illegal music download flash games have caused people to render their email addresses as "confidental" information.