We are all too familiar with the dangers of the Internet (you might get embarrassed on Friendster or your TV show might get canceled!) but it’s still useful every now and again to take a refresher course.

REMEMBER: whenever you are going to ask a 12-year-old to meet you at East Mall over MacPaint, don’t. They might be a mustache pervert with NO SLEEVES ON THEIR SHIRT! Yikes. (Unless, of course, you yourself are a mustache pervert with NO SLEEVES ON YOUR SHIRT, in which case, good luck! And if they don’t show up, you can always have lunch at the California Pizza Kitchen. Bring a book!) This is my face all day long:

Notice how his hand has lifted off of the mouse like oh, hell no? That is my hand. It’s your acoustic guitar in the background, though. (Video via NextRound.)

Comments (63)
  1. did sleeveless guy look familiar to anyone else?

  2. When he lifts his hand off the mouse at around 1:04 his ear shifts back like an inch and a half and I for real thought he was going to turn into a werewolf.

  3. At the time, the things he saw online may have made him feel uncomfortable, but clearly the young Kevin Smith was becoming influenced in ways that would shape his future for years to come.

  4. I miss Andrew and his interruptions

  5. Wait, guys with cutoff sweatshirts are bad news?! Somebody warn The Patriots about Bill Belichick! It’s all been a long con!

  6. It would make sense a pervert would eat at California Pizza Kitchen, considering what they do to pizza is technically a crime.

  7. I did what this video asked; now my parents just want to know who Steve Winwood is.

  8. “Back in my day, we didn’t need no fancy instant messenger to talk to our friends. No! We loaded up the word processor, made up a pretend friend, typed out their responses to our questions and then made pretend dates to meet them.” — Future Grandpa in a space rocking chair.

  9. I talked to my parents about the stuff I saw online that made me sad and uncomfortable and they told me stop stop checking the New York Times, BBC, CNN, Huffpost, The Daily Show…

  10. The call is coming from inside the MS WORD!

  11. I feel like I should tell you guys that I’m actually a 12-year-old girl pretending to be a fuzzy blue monster.

  12. Transcript, presented without commentary: “I was surfing the net last night. I saw some things. Some things came up…”

  13. “The things I saw made me feel… I don’t know… uncomfortable, I guess.”

  14. So when’s the next Videogum meet-up?

  15. This kid is giving me a vibe:

  16. So it is stil ok to not watch out for windowless vehicles?

  17. It’s OK, Tom. Videogum made me feel pretty lousy the first time it came up on my Internet. You’ll get used to it.

  18. The opening scene stars Trudy from Community in her awkward phase and Kevin James’ favorite nephew.

  19. Uh. Was that song at the end saying “murder one, murder two, murder three, murder four”???? Okay…

  20. My vehicle is windowless! I must be a pervert, you guys!

  21. “That’s just the liquor talking, Randy.”

  22. I thought for sure that the girl who was ‘creeped out by some things’ was going to start singing her feelings at :51. The camera even panned out and everything!

    “OOOOOOOOOOOOH, when people on the internet creep me OUT……I call my mom and ask her “What’s it all ABOUT??????”

  23. Two things; I don’t think that circa the 486 era Microsoft Word ever had a “chat” function. And two; I don’t think pedophiles give a snidey “ka-huck!” after they score a target.

  24. I think those two girls were actually chatting with Ghostwriter.

  25. Oh man, I had forgotten sending pictures THROUGH THE MAIL. Like sexting, only through the post office.

    Another thing that had slipped from the forefront of my mind that this video brought back: I lost my gay virginity to a girl I met on an AOL messageboard. Internet dating early adopter, I guess. (By the way: I did NOT ask my mom beforehand.)

  26. I totally understand their reasoning when making the pedophile wear a sleeveless shirt. You can’t just cast a guy and say to his face “just show up dressed like you are now, you look exactly like a pedophile.” You have to at least change something, for his sake.

  27. I too have encountered some bizarre and frightening things on the internet that made me feel lousy. I would recommend avoiding http://www.videogum.com.

  28. What do you think the narrator is implying when he says: “when you’re online… doing what you’re supposed to do”? That downloading jpeg of Tiffany Amber Theissen in a mesh top leads to being raped? Or that 12 year olds just go looking for it? Either way, I think I’m offended.

  29. As I’m typing this, I’m wearing only sleeves, so I’m totally safe.

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