Break.com

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The 2006 Break.com logo

Break.com (formerly Big-boys.com) is a humor website founded in 1998 that features adult videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. Although much older, the website is considered a rival to YouTube.

1 Content
2 Culture
- 2.1 Pornography and adult content
- 2.2 Mainstream media content
3 References in the media
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Content

The main focus of the site is on the videos, which consist of short clips of varying humorous merit in many [1] categories including animation, military, sports, humor, movies and entertainment. These often include home video footage of people being injured, usually as a result of their own recklessness or foolishness, on purpose or on accident, the site also includes television clips, viral and adult videos in its NSFW and EASTEREGG sections.

Visitors are able to rank site material on a scale of 1 to 5, which is factored into an average score. Users can also comment on most of the individual entries.

In January 2006, Break.com introduced a new file hosting system for its users to share their files. Shared files can be promoted to the homepage to be featured. Users that host original files promoted to the homepage are paid and the user relinquishs all rights to their material under contract. [2].

Break.com has an Alexa rating hovering in the high 200s (as of February, 2007).[3]

The website is owned by TMFT Enterprises, LLC.

[edit] Culture

A tradition that has arisen in Break discussions is a tendency of certain users to insist that submitted material is "fake." This likely first arose from a reasonable skepticism that some of the content posted on Break consisted of staged "injuries" or "pranks" aimed at garnishing payment for being posted on the main page. These claims have since evolved into a kind of self-mockery, with users now insisting that even material depicting thoroughly-verified news events are fake.

Unsavoury remarks relating to contributors sexual preferences are also becoming increasingly popular amidst the personal attacks and racial slurs endured by those that submit content even with the younger kids! [4] , KKK kid , [5].

Break.com is occasionally referred to as "cyber scavangers", with a proportion of content being reposts from other video websites. [6], [7], [8], [9], [10].

[edit] Pornography and adult content

Apart from the sponsored adult content, Break.com is a target of spamming from camsites and others. It can take several hours for staff to remove this content [11], allowing children who access the site [12] to see it. Comments left within the submitted material have called for a higher level of supervision on the part of Break.com staff, esspcially outside office hours and weekends when most of the material is submitted.

General consensus is that Break.com is not suitable for minors and parental discretion is advised due to the nature of its content.

[edit] Mainstream media content

In August 2006, Break.com and Showtime partnered to promote Weed by encouraging Break.com users to upload original videos matching the themes of the show, with winners eligible for airing on the channel.^[1]

In March 2007, Break.com signed a contract with NBCU Digital Studios to develop a streaming broadband series to be featured on Break.com, tentatively titled Breakers.