Today let’s take a look at a useless creature called Bunchies or more recently known as Kelet. Not actually a new Internet phenomenon, Bunchies attained online stardom and started to terrorize at large when it was posted on the Penny Arcade forums by a retard named Kelet in response to a thread with lot of drama and QQ more noob. The thread seems long lost in the never ending cyber-vomit that is the internet but fortunately for us a grammatically crippled fag witnessed the events, somewhat, and share his incomprehensible and confused personal Altavista Babelfish impersonation of what happened at Penny Arcade with us.

Once upon a time, my brother goes to Penny Arcade forums. There are people shouting and making the gay accusations there! Big anger.

There was a user there of name “kelet”.
This was his post to the thread in whole.

Immediately, everyone say “That is a Kelet!” and laughter was having.
And soon, people began to make other pictures with the Kelet.

Bunchies is the creation of Aaron St. Goddard, most probably a fucking slacker like us because seriously the Kelet is the perfect example of what can happen when bored and spoiled kids got too much time on their hands. According to the creator Bunchies spawned for no reason or purpose, something we can easily comprehend and relate to, but wait here comes the confusing part because it seems to emanate from some kind of twisted sexual fantasy I’d prefer have nothing to do with. On the official Bunchies web site the creature is said to be “The incarnation of pure citrus joy, a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a glossy green skin.” Wtf?! Way to use too many words and overcomplicate what is best described as a green dildo with four legs and two rows of teeth that bite you damn fag.

Igloolounge Bunchies/Kelet rating

Funny factor: C
Got some points because of some fans made hijacks like the one below.

Phenomenon factor: B-
It is intriguing but not generating enough hype probably because of the low laughs amount the original design provides. The copyright sign on the Bunchies web site raises questions.

Design: B+
Not so shitty design, the 2d animation is well done.

Prediction:
The Bunchies/Kelet fad will most certainly endure a slow and painful death as more people will jump in but never enough to achieve first class phenomenon . Already peaked. Unfortunately it won’t die fast enough for us.

Official Bunchies web page here.
See more crappy Kelet here.

In the wake of the Where is your God now? and the Burger King madness the Igloolounge.net tried to get its hand on some of the original Burger King masks from the official BK’s masks web site but we just couldn’t. Seems that the offering was limited gimmickry and only running for Halloween 2005. As we have no clues if the masks offering is going to come back for next Halloween, plus being instant gratification suckers we wouldn’t have waited that long we just decided to create our own. So here it is available for general mayhem. Print it, build it and abuse it in every possible way. Don’t forget to post your King’s masked pictures on our forums, graciously hosted by the guys at Analog Medium. Wear it while you have sex, while you scuba dive or on your way to the dentist.

Post your picture on the Igloolounge forums here.

One of the original Farked Burger King Photoshop.

The Burger King has been enjoying some kind of popularity revival lately with the new BK marketing campaign digging the character out from 6 feet under. The Burger King was brought back in late 2004 to advertise the chain breakfast sandwiches and has been part of the major campaign since then, notably the promotion of Stawars III The Revenge of the Sith and the infamous Burger King Halloween mask campaign. According to AdRants.com the King got “Farked” on October 4th 2005. Hundreds of images of the Burger King taking on different sort of persona with the aid of good old Photoshop got posted on the Fark forums. According to the story the marketing people at Crispin Porter & Bogusky, responsible for the BK’s ads, coincidence or not, launched the web site BK Mask, a site where the mass could buy masks of the King and the famed Subservient Chicken.

Everyone’s on fucking drugs in Mcdonaldland. Seriously.

The Burger King was created somewhere in the 70’s as an answer to McDonald’s McDonaldland. McDonaldland was basically a world created by the collective hallucination of out of their fucking mind hippies, poets and other gouache artist fuckheads and used in McDonald’s marketing campaign through the 70’s and 80’s. McDonaldland consisted of a place where Ronald McDonald and psychotronic slacker friends like the Grimace and Mayor McCheese spent their days chasing Hamburglar and Captain Crook or harvesting hamburger patches or trimming down apple pie trees. The advertising from McDonald’s proved successful and so Burger kind had to step in the process of fucking up the mind of the kids of that time and so created their own out of space McDonaldland, the (how so original) Burger King Kingdom, yeah that’s a lot of Kings for your bucks and I dare you to repeat it 10 times real fast. The concepts of McDonaldland and Burger King Kingdom were such collage of acid trip binges and other incoherent non-sense that eventually both companies pulled the plug on both somewhere during the late 80’s. Too bad that irreversible brain damage was already done for a whole generation of kids and they resented that, unable to retaliate for many years.

An old school “Magical” Burger King doll of the 80’s.

Post Fark and the successful Burger King commercials, where the king is used as some kind of monster and or happy stalker, the King clearly became some kind of new internet phenomena. Pictures of the King portrayed as a fucking rapist or the very incarnation of evil with the catchphrase “Where is your god now?” took You’re The Man Now Dog and the whole interweb by storm. Maybe that’s how the brain damaged kids from the 70’s and 80’s campaigns strike back at Burger King or maybe that’s just the internet. Either way the Igloolounge.net is adding it’s modest contribution to the phenomena. So… Where is your god now?

Article about Burger King Getting Farked here.
Fark original Burger King photoshop thread here.
Official Burger King Halloween masks site here.
Where is Your God Now? Generator here.

The Vin Diesel madness taking over the World of Warcraft servers.

There has been a lot of talk lately on the Barrens general chat and on the World of Warcraft forums about Vin Diesel who supposedly plays a shaman in the game. The Vin Diesel fad quickly escalated last October into a server wide phenomenon to the point that many posts about Vin Diesel on Blizzard message boards had to be moderated or deleted by the forums admins. The Igloolounge.net is taking a plunge and uncover the origins of the “OMFG!@ Vin Diesel is a Shaman” myth.

The Vin Diesel plays a shaman fad is not really new actually and can be tracked back on some World of Warcraft fan site forums as far as early 2005 with a little bit of Googling skills and link digging. Unfortunately there is no clear evidence as where and how the Vin Diesel fad exploded on the internet, although most trails we followed pointed us to a web site called Random Facts About. The web site appears to be a database of over the top humorous facts about; Mr.T, Chuck Norris and you guessed it Vin Diesel. The way it works is that about everyone can add it’s own fact about Vin Diesel, Chuck Norris or Mr.T and facts are then ranked according to other people votes, a system which resembles Bash.org. Here is a couple of example of random facts about Vin Diesel:

Vin Diesel has two speeds: walk and kill.
Vin Diesel played Russian Roulete with a fully loaded gun and won.
If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: “I End Lives.”
Crop circles are Vin’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down.
There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Vin Diesel allows to live.

This is after digging through the huge database of nearly 4000 facts that we found these two gems:

If Vin Diesel was a Shaman and Tony Danza was a Paladin, Vin Diesel would totally kick Tony Danza’s ass. Unless Danza used his shield and hearthed. Pussy.
Vin Diesel plays World of Warcraft under the alias Din Viesel.

The infamous Learn 2 Play poster on You’re The Man Now Dog.

The last fact is particularly interesting as it is also referred on Ten Ton Hammer, a website about online gaming, in its Friday Vin Diesel Fact. Taken the humorous nature of the Random Fact About web site it is easy to see how the “Vin Diesel plays World of Warcraft under the alias Din Viesel” line found it’s way as a joke in the game and spread like wild fire creating mass hysteria. The craze reached a peak last November and it is now commonly accepted among the World of Warcraft community that Vin Diesel is the patron of the shaman class. This may not be Blizzard Entertainment view on the matter as the forums moderators continue to serial delete most posts about Vin Diesel.

More recently the World of Warcraft Vin Diesel craze also reached You’re The Man Now Dog, and it seems that we wont see the end of the of this Dieselomania soon. The Igloolounge.net couldn’t leave its fans out of the hysteria and present its own spinoff of the learn2play poster. Enjoy.

Edit (14/1/06): Closer examination of the Random Fact About web site teach us that everything all unsurprisingly originated from the Something Awful forums.

After Learn 2 Play and Learn 2 Play 2 - Igloolounge.net proudly presents A Shaman Apart.

The Random Fact About Vin Diesel website can be reached here
Vin Diesel Learn2play poster on You’re The Man Now Dog can be seen here