Why do you like watching lolcows?

[Mrs Paul]

Because it's like watching a trainwreck and then seeing a plane crash into it. It's morbid curiosity. No one can possibly be this fucking weird.

 

[Silvana]

A combination of stuff Kiwis have already said, basically. Lolcows are funny and entertaining - and I love anything that makes me laugh. There's also my interest in anomalous individuals - and as the saying goes, "truth is stranger than fiction". No novelist or scriptwriter could ever dream up characters such as CWC, Jin or Taxman - and the fact these characters are real makes them so much more satisfying to read about.

I think most lolcows fit this definition. They are 'real' bone and flesh people, but from our point of view they look like clowns, like caricatures or like fictional characters. We refuse to recognize these people as 'real' as average Joes we see everyday. And yet, as we dig and learn more about this people they seem less lile moronic cardboard cutouts and more disturbingly human and real: they have/had people they love, they were children at one point, they carry on with their daily routines; they experience all those small things you and I do.

Because they're the crazy street loons of the internet.

I can just as happily watch some guy in a giant pink hat and poop-filled trousers have an argument with a No Parking sign.

For myself, at least, this is what it's all about. Those strange, incongruous-looking people seen wandering the streets, clearly not in full possession of their mental faculties. The weird, disjointed diatribes regarding some triviality, scrawled on subway walls. The talentless buskers and ad hoc orators, delivering impromptu speeches on tube carriages to a captive audience, all determinedly looking in the opposite direction. Where do they come from? How did they get to where they are now? Was it their childhood ambition to hand out obscure self-published tracts, deface adverting posters and like Saint Francis, preach to the birds?* Only the other day, in my local supermarket, I caught sight of a Magic Mike DVD. I was promptly reminded of a video I once saw on sale, its cover defaced with graffiti decrying it as the work of the Devil. At the time, I wondered what the thought processes of the person responsible could possibly have been. And just what sort of life they had lived to reach a point where defacing video cases seemed a worthwhile use of their time.

I now know.


* I await my Islamic Content ratings with relish.

 

[FutureGlory65]

Boredom and morbid curiosity mostly.

 

[Billiam Cipher]

I love watching them because it fascinates me how people can be so damn weird. I don't know what causes them to do these things, but I just can't look away.

 

[Sakyubasu]

Echoing FutureGlory65, but yeah, boredom and morbid curiosity. It's like disaster tourism. You're just so curious to see what kind of a mess someone makes or just is and you just have to see it.