The newly born BearFood can be best defined
as a caricature of everyone's favorite Japanese movie monster, Godzilla. However, instead of terrorizing
millions with its disintegrating atomic breath, it chooses to spit
out a journal of amusing links found by average internet explorers. With a
scaly spine sketched out by Mathew Inman a.k.a The Oatmeal, a man known for his
oddball humor, this website is well on its way to the Top 100 for the sufficiently
bored.
The site hoists a simple design scheme. Along
with a plain white backdrop, it has a lovely bright logo to match a small of
array of coloured blocks that let you submit an entry and view the queue. There
is also a lead to how the website works but an average IQ of 96 would do just as
well. The color scheme is literally ignorable but if you squint hard enough you’ll
see a likeable contrast of colour. Consequently it may have a nostalgic feel
for any The Oatmeal fan.
BearFood works with a day-to-day timeline
of popular links and displays a neat list of links is laid out for the public
to vote, discuss and lick up like a melted Klondike bar. The freshness of the
site is also kept in mind as it supports a thread for any bugs one may find. One
can also find the current age of the site somewhere in the dooblidoo and sell
their souls to social media if they wish. The promotion and demotion of links
works well with the no sign-up vote and comment system this website takes on. The
intent for the site was a sense of community, to create a sharing circle of
sorts in which content producers could be appreciated by a content loving
audience. It is tough to say if such a system has been rooted quite yet but it
is fascinating to a bucket-load of people.
As for the starting question, no, it doesn’t
deserve to be a top search result for bear food. There are some very furry
animals waiting to be fed somewhere on the planet and rad links just won’t do.