How To Defeat Juicy Campus
Since the launch of Juicy Campus, the writers at The Colonialist have come up with about 50 different posts that we wanted to make about the site. While I don’t intend to devote 17 full posts to the website (like the Patriot), I do think it is time to say something.
Juicy Campus is fun because it targets our most human pleasures. We want to know gossip. We want to know smears. We like rumors. It is hard to admit, but it’s true. I spent the weekend surfing the site a lot, putting up things about myself and my roommates. I’d like to openly admit to writing all 10 of the comments calling The GW Patriot racist. I’d be willing to bet that 80% of the posts on the site are done with the same innocent prank attitude. It’s a playground.
That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.
Juicy Campus is the reality TV of websites. It’s mindless and wretched but for some reason it is desirable. While it’s fun, most people agree that we would be better off with out the website. Give it enough time, and every single one of us will have our feelings hurt by an anonymous posting on the internet. Only the most trivial of human beings wish this on someone else. We don’t want this. We don’t want Juicy Campus.
What do we do now that it is here?
Do we ban it? Pepperdine University and Georgetown University both tried to ban the website from school networks. This is dumb. Censoring the internet sets a precedent that we don’t want in academia. If we ban Juicy Campus, The Colonialist is next.
Do we ignore it? We can’t ignore it. The site exists and there is no way we can stop people from actively participating in the gossip-mongering. Even if you choose to not visit the site, others will. Remember, the site is something we all secretly enjoy.
The only solution: Use Juicy Campus’ free and open forum as a weapon against itself. This isn’t spam, it’s a response. I’m willing to bet the amount of people who wish to demolish Juicy Campus far exceeds those who want it around. We can stop the site by using the site. All three major GW blogs agree on this. I’m asking the Hatchet to stand with us on Thursday with some sort of editorial. GWBlogspot wrote a great piece about JC. The GWPatriot has figured out how to destroy it. Here are the instructions:
1) Launch JuicyCampus.
2) Post something utterly ridiculous and benign. A few ideas: free-verse poetry, absurdist short prose, wikipedia articles, long explications of your various political philosophies, silly attacks on yourself, transcripts of conversations you’ve had or plan to have with other people (or yourself), the titles of the last ten books you read, your homework. [Colonialist Edit: DO IT OFTEN!]
3) Reply to a similar post by someone else. These forums thrive on interaction, and it’s not hard to play off someone else’s absurdity.
4) Vow to do this daily, and never to succumb to the temptation to use JuicyCampus the way it’s “supposed” to be used.
The front page of the site has already been flooded with poetry. Many are hidden under fake titles like “Pita Pit is CLOSING.” We are the reason Juicy Campus works and we can also be the reason that it doesn’t work.
If we can keep this up for long enough, people will find the site unreliable and unusable. The hidden ugly content will be flooded with poetic responses and wikipedia entries. No one will need to use the site anymore. No one will develop the habit of reading it every day. Juicy Campus will cease to be relevant.
Once more: We are the reason Juicy Campus works and we can also be the reason that it doesn’t work. It is up to you.
Send this to your friends. Get posting.
[KIRK EDIT: It's important that the posts that fall under the categories "Most Discussed" and "Most Viewed" are receiving juicy poem bombs. These are the real lifeblood of the site.
Punch in the throat with the magic of absurdity! A resurging dada! Zoom! Zoom! Zimbo! Columns in the corner, handles in the deskchair.]
[TRAVIS EDIT: It's worth noting that this is absolutely working on the front page. JC moderators deleted a bunch of posts saying that the site sucked now because of our posts. They are NOT deleting posts with subject titles that appear to fall in line with the site. They also do not delete individual posts with in topics. Keep it up! It's WORKING. But as Kirk said, we also have to do this on the Most Discussed and Most Viewed pages.]
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Comments
We’re working the same thing at Georgetown and it’s working out pretty well.
By the way, Georgetown didn’t really try to ban Juicy Campus. The head of Student Association talked about it with administrators and backed off, and the Hoya endorsed it, but I don’t think it was ever more than idle talk.
The Dogs posts have all been deleted. If we want to be serious about this, we can’t be upset when our hard work gets deleted. We have to assume it will happen.
They also seem to be overlooking posts with titles that look normal.
In our defense, the Patriot has thusfar featured only 4 posts involving JC. One introduced the site, one posted a link to the GWBlogspot post about it, another was Hunter’s attempt to expose libel that posted about him, and the fourth was my epic plan to take the Juicy out of JuicyCampus.
I actually began to do the exact same thing this evening with a bunch of my friends before reading your article. It’s great to know that there are other people who are doing it. I saw a ton of wikipedia articles and poetry on there tonight and it seems that the JC reign that has been so prevalent the last week or so is crashing already.
Good work!
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It’s working, keep doing it, start the campaign. Send this message to juicy campus libel victims. I hate censorship, but this is simply beating them at their own game.
You should check out http://juicycampusrevealed.com it explains all about the dangers of getting caught on this site.
you are going out of your way to prevent people from talking shit and expressing themselves. you should be ashamed of yourself. why not just take that time and do something useful like pleasure yourself or try to find someone to pleasure you (you know something good in life). maybe pick up a hobby like play video games or masterbate more often. maybe even try and figure out how many times you can masterbate in one day or how fast you can get off. these are all examples of something that can help society. and if your thinking to yourself; how will this help society? Masterbation really builds up your right (or left for those freaks out there) forearm. my forearm is by far the strongest muscle on my body and i actually go to the gym. but the more and more you masterbate you will get stronger and stronger and when your time comes to be a hero and push that old lady out of the way of the semi-truck that is about to destroy her, you will be strong enough to save her life. if you had not spent all this time neglecting your school work and masterbating you would have been too weak and you would have both died. And everytime someone fails to be a hero i find 10 dollars.
mike,
We’re not going out of our way to stop people from shitting themselves and express talking, we’re reacting to a situation in a positive way.
We’re arguing for the pleasurable side of things here.
kirk
This is neat shit! Before reading this, I had made one spam-like post,”Nude Picture of Student!” which linked anyone who followed to whoomp. In one night it got 200 views, and there are only 600 students on campus. I recommend the use of shock sites for anyone else looking to spam up JC. Email me for a list of my favorites!
ALSO. isn’t it interesting how juicycampus is all about promoting free speech and uncensorship? and then when we post whatever we want it gets deleted because some arbitrary person considers it spam? we’ve been beating the JC moderators at their game for now though. Go duke!
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