How did you find Datalounge?

I was Googling Benedict Cumberbatch in 2012.

I took the wrong fork in the road on my way to iVillage.

I can't remember. I may have put "celebrity gossip" into Yahoo. I found Datalounge in 2001.

I did a Yahoo search for "gay gossip" in the fall of 2000.

I remain.

2015 I think. I Googled something and a DL thread was in the search results. I forgot what the topic was that I Googled. I'm not into celebrity gossip so it wasn't that.

Late '00s while googling "Anderson Cooper gay".

"real name ken ryker"

I was here first and they just built it around me

"Danny Thomas glass table"

It was either something about the Golden Girls or something about Joan Jett. I remember reading long threads about both that same evening. I was in college and very lonely and isolated so I spent a lot of time watching old tv, listening to music and messing about on Google.

A friend told me about it. I think the unspoken subtext was: "you're bitchy, have too much time on your hands, know too much about ridiculous things so you'd fit right in"

Is it any wonder that I, a gay man, was googling "celebrities with vaginal odor" and ended up here?

I wandered in here from the old Atkol forums in 2002.

Googling Carly Simon

"Cheyenne Jackson thighs in Xanadu"

Year, 2007

Do I win for gayest google search?

Looking for Broadway gossip in fall 2006. Back then there were credible Broadway insiders who'd dish, but they're all long gone. I wonder if they get their gossip out in private FB groups now or what? Everyone was obsessed with Raul Esparzas' sandal wearing feet back then. I was technically around for the "Julianne Moore...seriously" threads but like didn't pay attention for a few weeks and by the time I asked what the JMS thing was, the response was basically "you had to be there."

Don't remember the year, but Datalounge was referenced on Defamer and Gawker in the early era of their existence. I fell in love hard and fast!

Probably 2010-ish. I was googling some old B-movie star I thought was sexy; it could have been Ralph Meeker or Lawrence Tierney, but I'm not sure. For a while, I visited DL often, but only from google searches. Then, I started stopping by every day. Then, the imdb forums disappeared, and the visits to DL got longer and longer and longer ...

Datalounge might have been referenced in one of the comments on either site, now that I think about it a little.

Breadcrumbs.

It was only a few years ago I typed ”Ronaldo gay" on google. It was the period he was spending a lot of time with that Moroccan kick boxer, Badr Hari. I was really convinced he would come out as a mega-major gay athlete but instead the rumor fade completely with the rape allegations… Anyway became addicted ever since and read/write on DL everynight, like being cosy with friends.

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.

R13, I wandered over from Atkol, too! I couldn't tell anyone when, though. I'm terrible with dates. It took me a long time to work up the nerve to actually post.

I heard a racket outside my house one night and I grabbed a flashlight and opened the door. There, rooting through an overturned trash can, was the datalounge, looking on the verge of starvation. It turned and looked at me, its eyes reflecting the glare of my flashlight, and let out an unworldly hiss.

Eventually I was able to lure it into my home by playing the soundtrack to “Meet Me in St Louis.” It perched on my couch, drinking a cosmo I had mixed for it, and told me it relied on the kindness of the homosexual community for its livelihood, and that is why it was rooting through garbage cans. But only the *really good* garbage cans.

In my day, Datalounge weren't nothin' more than a bunch of black courier font letters on a white screen. And ya had to hit refresh anytime you wanted to see somethin' new. And it was confusin' as H-E-double-hockey-sticks 'cause everyone were named "Anonymous." And we liked it that way. We liked it.

Trying to find out more about Barron Trump's autism rumours. This lil' gem of a thread came up right on top of the search results.

I was hooked right from the start.

I turned left at Albuquerque.

Reading Tom and Lorenzo and there was a DL reference that was hilarious. I sought it out.

I was trying to find out information on my favorite porn star. Kind of got interested in this, and would visit the site occasionally. In the past few weeks, got more interested, and actually opened an account. I have screwed up somehow, because my posts to threads do not show up on my view of the post, but wind up in my ignore box. I think I somehow ignored myself, or is this normal?

r29 Yes, you ignored yourself. Clear the entire ignore list by clicking on the little crosses on the right side of the ignore list. Refresh the page and see if it helps.

Naturally I saw an ad that was the product of one of their awesome marketing campaigns.

Thankfully the powers that be at datalounge know how to target their prospective consumers with online ads and maximize the money people spend on subscriptions to keep a site that runs smoothly.

It was referenced on FameTracker - remember that?!

I think I was, innocently enough, googling for info about Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Imagine my surprise when I got here!

Google searches for the original "Queer Eye" show in 2003 brought be here.

I was looking for info on Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford and it led me here.

I was "researching" the cinematic career of Armond Rizzo and encountered an over the top (giggle) discussion of said performer. I'm a loyal DL follower now, but I tend to contribute mainly to the popular culture, literature, history threads and rarely to any that are porn related.

I Googled “Project Runway message board” and found DL. I don’t know a soul who watches PR and wanted to talk/vent about it and hated the posters on IMDb...I needed Datalounge to enlighten me and I realized I couldn’t stand them because they were such Fraus!

When Elliot Rodger shot those college kids in California.

Blame Dylan Geick and his twink boyfriend at the time Jackson.

I read about it in Michael Musto's column in the Voice.

I saw it mentioned a few times while reading a spoiler thread at Daytime Dish and wondered, "What's a Datalounge?" (and googled it). That was 2006.

I searched for "Gwyneth Paltrow is a cunt" true story

Somebody mentioned it on Fametracker, then I came here and it was when Tom Cruise had jumped on Oprah's couch and I read a thread here about it and was hooked.

Googled some detail about Jackie Onassis a few years ago....

same as R40

r32 was not me, hi to a fellow Fametracker

I once frequently visited a website called Rate-A-Rod and they asked the guys who submitted pictures of their dicks other questions like what state they were in, their age, and also their favorite websites.

One guy with a particularly noteworthy rod said his favorite website was something called “Datalounge,” so I checked it out. This was the summer before 9-11. Been here ever since..

Completely random, but in 2003 I was talking with a neighbor. In passing, he mentioned Datalounge and that it was a gay gossip site. I had no idea what he was talking about since I had never heard of DL. I went home that night, and if I recall, I probably Googled DL. I have been more or less been addicted since. I have since lost track of my neighbor, but DL has remained constant.

Googled something about Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. It was vicious, but hilarious and accurate. No wonder they hate this site.

Trying to find out if Tom Holland was gay after his lip sync battle

i was searching for Golden Girl forums

It was around 2010 or 11. I don't remember what I googled, but I somehow stumbled upon the thread about Oprah's interview with supermodels from the 70s, 80s and 90s during the last year of her talk show. Anyone remember that one? That thread had me cracking up and I've been addicted ever since.

I was googling nest of vipers for a documentary I was thinking of producing for National Geographic

I was workin' as a waitress in a cocktail bar....

[QUOTE]Trying to find out if Tom Holland was gay after his lip sync battle

I was googling Gay celebrities years ago. I fell in love with DL. I loved the wit, sarcasm, and all the stories. I have never left. I have tried other sites, but nothing compares to DL.

Fucking somehow I ended up on Let’s Be Victorian Era Datalounge. God knows how I got there. But I was with my mom in the hospital where she was not doing well and, god damn, did it make me laugh hard. I needed it. And now I can’t quit you DL. I’ve stuck with you, old girl, through the ups and downs. When there is a truly innovative and funny thread, it makes me laugh. And I still marvel at the ability of some R1s to nail it shut within minutes.

Searching for which soap stars are gay. Tony Geary led me to DataLounge.

I think DL has some great inside information, too. Sometimes, we have first dibs on what’s really going on.

I googled hot lawyer Michael Avenatti about a year ago, and the search led me here. Since then, I subscribed to DL. I still want to fuck Michael Avenatti.

A pre-Google search, maybe Alta-Vista, brought me hear.

I looked for clean assholes,12 inch cocks, cunty retorts,Lens,pron and Liza Minnelli. For some reason it always brought me to this place..... where all of those things make sense together.

Yup I agree R59. DL and Lipstick Alley are my sources for some good tea.

Back when Wonkette was relatively new (and actually written by Ana Marie Cox), I saw Datalounge either mentioned or quoted, and I was off to the races. I believe that was 2004.

Whaddya know! I found it. And it was 2004.

I believe it was late 90s, early 00s .. I recall mentions of DL at the old IHSG? messageboard at voy,com, so at some point I decided to check it out.

IHSG? = Is He, She Gay?

I think I saw it referenced elsewhere - JoeMyGod? Dlisted? Gawker? Who the fuck knows.

NIGHT CHARM

they quoted a slutty thread that I followed here

Thanks for posting that R64.

Are the bitches who wrote these bon mots still around?

[quote]• "Can;t that trashy Patti Reagan at least wear a decent outfit for her father's funeral? She looks like a cocktail waitress for God's sake...If I were Nancy I would be horrified."

[quote]• "She just removed her Perkins name tag after her shift ended and took the bus over to Nancy's house."

[quote]• "Apparently Patti doesn't own an iron either."

I didn’t find the Datalounge, the Datalounge found me. x

[quote]i was searching for Golden Girl forums

That must have gotten you here at the speed of light.

The Absolutely True Story of How I Found the Datalounge

I was seriously ill several years ago and spent a lot of time in bed. I got bored and decided I would like to read some unhinged rants. So, I started typing hateful things into Google. It kept bringing me here. I read about half a dozen threads. I thought this site seemed interesting, so I went to the home page. That’s when I found out it’s a gay site. I’ve coming here ever since.

I came for the gossip.

I stayed for the collaborative threads and the cast of characters....like _mpy and Miss Ehrenstein

R54. That much is true

A friend of mine who was one of the originals told me about a thread on Judging Amy as he knew I watched that show. That was around 2005 maybe.

Found it when looking for information about the D.C. murder case of Robert Wone. There was surprisingly good analysis and details that didn't make it into mainstream papers outside of D.C. metro area.

The guys who killed him are the worst kind of scum and deserve to die in a grease fire. .

I don’t remember exactly but i think it was in the comments section of Towerroad (which i don’t read anymore) but it wasn’t about celebrity gossip in was something about politics. Late 90 ‘s, i loved reading but couldn’t post because of the peak periods. So every once in a while i’d check in and see what’s going on and then at some point i was able to post and then became a paying member about 10 years ago.

When i was unemployed i was on it all day, procrastinating my job hunting. Finally got a job and so i’m not on it so much. Thing is my husband hates this site, he finds its pointless bitchery, well pointless. However, i do share some of the better threads with him and he does admit it does have its moment.

Also, i love the obscure pop references and have been turned on to many wonderful movies, tv shows, music that i would never have found without DL.

What i hate the most though is the constant Instram ho’s that someone post every hour. Who cares about some steroided out straight narcissistic guy

I found its lack of faith disturbing.

After the demise of gay.com and gawker, DL has been my online home. My grammar has become shoddy tho

I didn’t find the DataLounge, it found me!

Michael Musto in the Village Voice, around 2001.

Bread pudding recipes

More than 20 years ago I saw it referenced on a long gone site "Is he/she gay?" At least I think that was it, twenty years is a long time.

Jon Stewart was talking about DL on his TV show, so I Googled it and found you.

Which actor might I suddenly have become interested in during the spring of 2013? I know it was in 2013. I googled something, probably "(actor name) gay" and it brought me here. OTOH, it may have been the Robert Wone story. I just don't remember. But it was 2013.

A friend told me about it in 2004. I lurked for a year or so. The first thread I remember was about rejected toy ideas, including “Lil’ Teri Schiavo - with removable feeding tube”.

I googled myself... I was so pissed off after reading that thread, I never came back here.

Then one day I googled "Did Brad Kalvo get fat?" and there was a huge thread on that here & now I am addicted to this site. During this 2nd time with DL, I was more able to see the (limited) level of thinking that some of the posters here are capable of, so I got over what was in the original thread about me. Even the title of the thread made no sense.

I was on a message board and someone linked the story of Gayle Grinds that was posted here. She was the lady that was so fat she fused to her couch.

March 2014, googled overlooked, underappreciated films. Datalounge was the second or third link. DL was so much better back then, more intelligence and wit, less anger and ignorance. But it still has its moments. And these VERY comfy couches make it tough to get up and leave.

[quote]I wandered in here from the old Atkol forums in 2002.

Were those the gay porn forums?

I was searching for Broadway gossip. On a DL B'way thread saw a post that said "Patti Lupone is Sally Bowles' mother". Fell off the chair laughing and the rest is history.

I don’t remember.

I was googling Robert Downey Jr, looking to see if anyone else found him to be a tiresome, insufferable, cunt and voila!

posters above mentioned Michael Musto, and that might have been my source, but…

I think it was a couple of (not complementary lol) mentions in Liz Smith’ column that got me here.

I think it was also Liz Smith’s column that led me to Wendy Williams on the radio. God, I miss that funny old broad...

I was googling Judy Live at Carnegie Hall because I’m obsessed with the album and just wanted to read everything I could find.

Then...Suddenly! A DL thread came up with the most wonderful title:

“Judy at Carnegie Hall — Let’s Discuss It’s Greatness”

So I’ve been happily hooked to DL since.

And I have to say, the second thread that bound me forever was

I’m Beth Jarrett...

Absolutely sent me into orbit.

My ex best friend discovered it. She's a lesbian and was searching for Marcia Cross gossip when everyone thought she was gay. I was instantly hooked and have never left. This was 2004, I think.

R22 R54 R73

But even then, I knew I'd find a much better place

Either with or without you

ONTD

R96 Don’t, don’t you want me?

R98, you know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me.

These five years we have had have been such good times, I still love you...

A friend told me about it, with specific reference to the "What Your Favorite Helen Lawson Musical?" thread.

I'm still here.

My son, then 14, asked if Jeremy Renner was gay. DL did not disappoint!

I was on another message board where DL was referenced as this horrible vile place so naturally I had to check it out.

Somebody over at reddit told me I would be torn to shreds for my lack of class and sophistication

So of course I had to check it out. Its a nicer community than I'd anticipated. I started off set to asbestos eyeballs and havent felt the need to change that

Heard about it on the Usenet gossip groups in the 1990s from someone named Sher but I avoided DL for a long time because of the creepy JTT stalker. Honestly don't remember why I started coming here regularly but it was probably 2004 or so.

I'd been paying attention to MetaFilter since 2002; was getting fed up with it being more and more taken over and run by intolerant, hysterical absolutists; someone there asked about other online communities that weren't so heavily moderated; and someone mentioned this place.

That must have been about 2010. I've since dropped by while in California, China, Kenya, Lebanon and Qatar.

Michael Musto mentioned the DL in an article way back in the early part of the century.

This is the oldest archived page of Datalounge I could find, from February 2001. The little planet ball used to twirl around the logo!

This is what DL looked like when I got here and people were already bitching about the new look, but it was better than the red and purple.

In 1995, there was no Google, and I have no idea which gay celebrity I was looking for. Back in those early days of the internet, there were no graphics, and it was all white text on black background. For DataLounge, it was just pages and pages of posts — no threads.

You know who told me?

Julianne Moore

I used to visit in the quite early days. In those days it looked like a phone directory. None of the fancy-pantsy stuff you see today.

I think I googled "Playgirl 1970s" and that's how I found it, several times. Where else would they be discussing this at such great length? But I didn't hang around.

Then in 2007 Alan Bates died and there was much revelation about his homosexuality and of course much discussion on here.

It was a Saturday morning and I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. It was the moment of the Diana scream - someone had just posted it. I came on board and never left. Until then I always hated anything "gay" on the internet - there was sites like towlroad which was so depressing. It was all reports on gay bashings in Cleveland and AIDS. Whereas here people wanted to make each other laugh more than anything. People didn't come here to be grim.

Also, back in '07 there was a vast archive. You could look up anything and what was weird, was people used to talk at great length about offbeat things that seemed to interest me....I mean, 75 posts on "An Unmarried Woman"?

To this day I can't believe I fit into some "gay" group the way I have here. I was never Mr. Gaybar or Mr. Fire Island. It's been a revelation.

[quote]I mean, 75 posts on "An Unmarried Woman"?

^ #76

#77:

^ AH!! One of my favourite movements!

Good to see you, R113! It's been a while.

BTW - there's a new Swami in town!

+1 with r40, r45, r80 and r107.

Early 2000s and Musto, in his VV column mentioned the DL by writing something like (paraphrasing): "not as mean as those ridiculing bitches at the Datalounge,", or something like that.

Hooked, Lined, and Linker ever since.

For me, it was a Michael Musto column in The Voice where he mentioned that some gossip in a Datalounge thread about something that happened in - I think - The Philippines - got picked up by international news. I wish I could find that column.

Cheryl and I used to work together at a collection agency.

Google. But I didn't know it was a gay celebrity board at first. Also, that it's mainly frequented by the elderly aka eldergays.

I'm rather happy that Datalounge is allegedly eldergay-centric. For it it were composed solely of young gaylings, every other thread would be about Ariana Grande or stomach abs. What a fright that would be.

[quote]Cheryl and I used to work together at a collection agency.

Collection of what, bodily fluids?

[quote]that it's mainly frequented by the elderly aka eldergays.

Thank God for that.

It used to be much more so and was all the better for it.

It was right here.

DL used to make me laugh so hard I'd have tears. About some of the silliest stuff too. I miss that.

I was big into As the World Turns online fandom back in the late 90s and got here somehow through that.

That link will take you to an actual page where you can see we have always had fucking moronic right-wing trolls. ------------------------ BUSH IS THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT by: anonymous 23 12/11/2000 @ 07:27PM As usual, my post generated a lot of hate speech from the far-left wacko crowd.

In reply:

1. Bush assuming power is not against the will of the people. He won the electoral vote which is how our constitutional process works.

2. Bush is not lying or stealing votes or using his brother (as if he could). Both Bush and Gore are exercising their legal rights under our system of justice. Gore is following legal procedures to contest the vote in Florida. It's not been done in a presidential election in a long, long time. It's bad form in some ways, but it is his right.

On the other side, Bush is using the justice system just as Gore is doing. Bush is using the system to counter Gore's use of it. Both men are within their rights.

2. The country did not do better under Clinton/Gore than under prior Republican administrations. The country did do better over the past eight years because of individual productivity, good sense from Alan Greenspan, and the tax and spending cuts put through in the eighties by the Republican Congress.

3. Bush opposed gay rights. Big deal. Clinton gave us "don't ask don't tell." Clinton gave us the defense of marriage act. As usual, the Democrats talk a great deal, promise even more, but give us nothing. Oh yeah, they do take more and more of our money and our freedoms.

4. People keep saying that Gore won the popular vote. Maybe he did. But, in a lot of states the popular votes were not completely counted. After a winner was declared, absentee ballots were not counted. So, maybe Bush really won. Just as you think Bush is stealing the election, I, am convinced that Gore is stealing it.

5. The Republicans did not illegally fix the absentee ballots. Two courts have so ruled.

6. Bush won the first count in Florida. He won the second. He won the third. Even in Democratic areas, reports indicate that he was still winning the hand count that was stopped this weekend. I think Bush would win any recount, unless the Democrats could hide away as they did in Miami and discern voter intent by fixing the ballots.

7. Bottom line. Bush won under the election laws in effect as of election day. So, Gore wants to rewrite the laws to let him win. It's just as if the losing team in a football game wanted to change the rules to say that an almost touchdown was a touchdown.

8. Bush is president-elect. That is good for all of us. Will he be a good president? Who knows. Time will tell. Unlike Clinton/Gore, however, I know we will not have the criminal fund raising problems, FBI file abuse, selling of our military secrets to Red China, the politics of personal destruction, and complete disregard for the law.

9. Finally, on a lighter note, Bush is cuter and more pleasing to the eye and ear than Gore. Eight years of listening to Gore talk about the evils of the internal combustion engine would do wonders for the liquor industry.

R121 By now I do appreciate the presence of eldergays. The have some astounding knowledge that’s hard to find elsewhere like the old Hollywood threads.

Oh yeah, DL has always had right wing trolls. They used to be called Freepers back in the day.

Bathroom stall. Next to the gloryhole.

Been here since 2000 but have no recollection how I got here. Wait a minute, was I drugged?

I googled "Austin is overrated" or something and a thread on DL popped up, this was around 2013 I think. I was born and raised in Austin but moved away 15 years ago.

Late in the year 2000. I was searching for Michael Stipe gossip and was lured to Datalounge. Never disappointed and never leaving here either! I wish I could thank each and every one of you bitches.

[quote]Oh yeah, DL has always had right wing trolls. They used to be called Freepers back in the day.

A kinder, gentler time. Now "freeper" is used to describe anyone who's not part of the most extreme left (the ones who shriek "there's no such thing as the alt-left"!), in spite of the fact that most of us they call "freeper" have never voted, and will never vote, Republican in our lives.

Shut up, freeper.

i was Googling Rose Hanbury and David Rocksavage when I found the DataLounge.

Through bad luck

Yeah, there have been people pretending they weren't freepers since 2001 (and before) too, r131.

Trying to understand why all these young gay kids were going "trans." So many other forums were all, "Rah rah, trans is great! Don't question it!"

Google searches lead me here, where I found an even-handed and nuanced discussion. Or at the very least, no mindless cheerleading.

That, and the snark.

I'd probably had a few drinks and was ruminating about years gone by. I googled one of the characters from the old alt.showbiz.gossip -- not sure at this point, but it may have been David "Auntie Midge" Migikovsky -- and found myself here. And stayed.

I was googling why Glenn's career went straight down the shitter and voila! I found Datalounge

Oh wow, I've never seen anything this early before. 1996!

I stumbled upon it because of one of Truvy’s posts back in 1995 or 1996, forgot about it, and rediscovered it in 2013 when the Aaron Rodgers mess hit the news.

I was looking for a site where demented women could discuss Meghan Markle and google suggested I would fit in here. Thank you, Google!

R139 Times have changed.....

GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) A national organization advocating for fair, accurate and inclusive portrayals of lesbian, gay and bisexual lives in all forms of the media.

I was googling crystal meth... Asking for a friend...

What? Like it’s hard?

[quote] Oh yeah, DL has always had right wing trolls. They used to be called Freepers back in the day.

They were also sporadic, not constant and incessant.

I was on another website reading an article about politics and the writer of said article linked to Datalounge. I was taken aback at first by the laser-sharp snark, the uncanny ability of posters to cut through the BS to reveal the real truths, and the intelligence of most posters.

Being here for 15 years has changed me as a person. I’m a little more cynical and shrewd, don’t suffer fools gladly, and better informed on a variety of topics. I’m still kind though ;)

While hanging out on DL, I try to the honor the memory of my friend Tony, who died of AIDS related complications in 1994 at the age of 33. He was the absolute best and I miss him every damn day. A funny, charming, generous man who breathed magic into my life. He would’ve loved you guys.

I was googling fisting, disco lights, and seedy motels and got here?

1999. Googled Chris Meloni and Lee Tergesen on Oz, and, what do you know, something on Datalounge came up on the first search page. I entered the "vile pit of trollery" and never looked back!

I googled my name.

I was forced into Datalounge quite against my will. I had been happily posting on an Out.com discussion group site when all of us were suddenly informed that it was closing down and that we would be automatically transferred to something called “Datalounge.” Think about it. What does “Datalounge” even mean? Was it a gay forum hiding its real gay name in a closet? Was it a modern-day speak-easy where the password was “shame”?

If so, why would I ever stay in such a online place?

Inertia. And I’ve been here ever since. I suppose I’m now waiting for this site to close down and then to be transferred yet again to some new, cryptically named gay discussion site. I feel rather like that feather in the “Forrest Gump” movie, blown from one gay forum to the next. So to speak.

When I started posting here, 20 years ago, there were:

Freepers

Flames and Freaks (oh the humanity)

Gossip

Live Posting of awards shows, which was awesome. It still happens, but it isn't like it was back then.

Lots of Soap Talk

Turkey Meatballs

Something about Prancing Ponies. I clicked on one of those threads once, didn't know what the fuck was going on, and never went back.

I remember Shobe and Kirker and Judy Pills.

There really is no other place like it in the message board world.

[quote] I remember Shobe and Kirker and Judy Pills.

Ha! Ha! Ha! I'll say!

googled Call Me By Your Name (book) and fell down the rabbit hole

See, r136 is what I was talking about elsewhere: the anti trans ladies have to go into every thread and proselytize and spam us with their crap.

Dunno what they mean about "snark" because they don't actually participate in our threads in any meaningful or useful way.

Turned left at Greenland.

R154 Is one person, you sound obsessed. maybe you need to fuck a transie to get over your obsession

Google search

I was googling myself and the rest is history!

It may seem incredible now, but there was once a time when Kevin Spacey had rabid frau fan girls who insisted he was straight, ‘despite what those idiots at that data lounge say ... ‘

I came (via Google - 2009-ish?) for gay British celebrity gossip and I stayed for the hilarious bitchery.

Loves it!

I googled something like "why is my apartment too hot in winter." The thread and the rest of the site were entertaining, and I figured I'd stay, since why not, it's not like I'm one of those hetero frauen.

[quote]It may seem incredible now, but there was once a time when Kevin Spacey had rabid frau fan girls who insisted he was straight, ‘despite what those idiots at that data lounge say ... ‘

It really doesn't seem so incredible now. We still get the frau fangirls on DL, perhaps more than ever. Just replace "Kevin Spacey" with Shawn Mendes or some other current closet case.

[quote]we have always had fucking moronic right-wing trolls

We're an anonymous board and the demographic skews older, plus we get a lot of actually mentally ill people here who for some reason are fond of saying they're as liberal as the day is long but Vote Trump because immigrants / trans / SJW's / feminists/ assorted libturds. That a big draw for rightwing scum.

R151 - I still do not know or understand what the "Prancing Ponies" are????

I think it had something to do with the hobbit actors from Lord of the Rings R164.

I was looking up celebrity gossip and found you that way. I think it was a Broadway thread so the cattiness and hilarity were off the charts, so I never left.

The humour kind of reminds me of the old Howard Stern radio show back in the nineties. No matter how dire or sad the topic, people find funny and completely inappropriate things to say about it. Just replace the tits with dicks.

R64 Yep - via the old Wonkette site when comments about Patti Reagan's fashion choice for The Funeral were linked to datalounge.

I think that might have been the thread when Nancy Reagan's fingers did the casket dance.

I howled and I've been here on and off since then.

I somehow got to old infomercials on youtube and ended up searching for info on that red-haired Kathy woman who was in a lot of them. Of course, there were a thread on her here and I stumbled into it. I rarely laugh anymore (I know!), and was so happy to get the laughter I did out of the comments. So I lurked for a while. Funny enough, I didn't realize it was a gay-centered until a week or so later. Then decided to sign up. I feel like the site is constantly shifting amongst topics, from politics, to general media, to life lessons, etc.. So my interest in the site ebbs and flows. I generally enjoy the life discussions, as I don't follow Hollywood or politics much. I'm super into the threads about the retail markets and threads on the economy general.

A colleague, suspecting my tastes, apprised me.

I googled Tatum O'Neal and voila!

R164 They were off the chain trolls of some sort. I don't even dare type the name of that group lest I be banished forever.

Supposedly 9/11 was hysterical on DL.

Dangling tendrils.

Googled "Is Aldo Ray gay".

I googled “Is Brady Anderson gay?” so many years ago

Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.

I googled something about the American flag being ugly and you were the only bitches petty enough to have also complained about it.

I adore that so many people were brought together here by their dislike of something or to have their suspicions confirmed that someone/something is gay or ugly (or both).

I was raped in WeHo in 1997 and looking for a support group. I came here and found found a sloppy but sufficient band of people who could slowly help me to recover and to re assume the tasks of daily living.

R176, did this feature prominently in the thread? I remember it being all the rage back then.

R181 Fuck me Daddy, I hope the outcome was that he is.

In early 2016, I was on a “What’s My Line?” kick and Googled Dorothy Kilgallen, which led me right to Datalounge, where I learned more than I ever wanted to about Dorothy and just about everyone and everything else, living or dead. All thanks to the chinless wonder.

Maybe they are in greater number now, but "Dux Imperator" here demonstrates that freepers have had a presence here for a long time:

I was reading about the Marcia Cross lesbian scandal and DL was mentioned. Starting coming here then.

I'm glad this place helped you R180. I lost both parents in the last couple of years and have found a lot of kindness here. There's just the right amount of sweetness, sarcasm and assholery here to get people through the tough times with support and some laughs thrown in.

Googling a recipe for non-event toast.

Ben Barnes gay

R188 - Who in the hell is Ben Barnes and why do I care if he gay?

You know how they say don't mess with a Ouija board?

Yeah.

i would stumble on this site over the years when googling some obscure celebrity gossip... but thought the site too trashy to revisit. But a year ago, while watching Aretha Franklin's funeral service, there was no commentary on who was arriving, who was related to who,...etc. I wisely ended up on DL ......I've never left.