What is the main reason you come on Datalounge?

All of the above - and MORE!

It has gay-interest topics and it's easy to discuss things among a smaller message board populace.

Whenever I go to Reddit and see a topic, there's already 1200+ responses and it seems futile to post anything. And Reddit's moderators are very hands on and touchy. I don't feel like I'm talking to anyone - just trying to shout out my opinion in a crowd of thousands.

While not nearly as active as it used to be, Datalounge feels like an intimate afternoon gay bar with a bunch of people sitting around on stools around the bar and just commenting on whatever topic comes up in daily events and gay interest topics.

[quote] What is the main reason you come on Datalounge?

The waters.

The poll choices don’t quite land for me. I’m here for the cuntitude, the politics, the homo topics, the eccentricity and the laughter. And exactly what R2 said. The Internet is way too big and has become quite enhsittified. Somehow this little place, for all its faults, is superior (for me) than most of the rest of what’s out there.

r4 e n h s I

What?

R2 here - I also hate the commenting format of Reddit, where one comment gets replied to and an indented conversation happens for pages and pages of scrolling until you get a separate comment, and under that, the same thing. It's really not user-friendly IMO - but I guess they have to do that with the sheer volume of posts.

I think posting inline on DataLounge is sufficient - if you want to track back to a comment, we just say RX to refer to it.

The one thing that I feel it needs is more thread creation participation. It feels like 70% of threads are started by like 5 people. I'm guilty of this - I just comment to existing threads. Only about 10% of my threads ever go anywhere - they usually just die within a day.

But part of that is that some people get FF'd for starting a thread in the first place, which can throw you off.

Perhaps if all paying members were required to start 5 threads a month - or if there was a limit on how many threads one person could create a month - we'd have more things going on.

I'm lazy and could put more effort into starting threads.

To warn the public about My Fat Daughter.

Ha, typo, meant enshittified.

No reason. I didn't know it existed. When Tom Cruise had the jumping on the couch episode on Oprah years and years ago, I had heard about it, but didn't know the specifics. So, I Googled it and there was a link to Datalounge. I read the thread, perused and found and read some other threads on varying topics and got hooked. This was way back when each thread had individual pages. Lol.

It’s notable that gossip isn’t one of OP’s poll choices. We not only don’t break gossip anymore, we barely even discuss it.

Back in 1997 - gay gossip.

r9 "lol"

[quote] Lol.

LoL! :)

I've used LoL! :) to mock people on reddit. I'm pretty sure they're too stupid to realize I'm mocking them but it feels good.

I like coming here for cuntiness. People are very mean but they're often pretty funny. Not that easy to find on the internet in 2025. Usually people are just mean and stupid.

For the light-hearted miscellaneous and varied discussion of social issues, news events, medical quandaries, personal issues, bizarreries, and so on. We have some very kind, insightful, intelligent, experienced, and well-informed people here who have been around the block more than once and can offer worthwhile perspective that can't be easily found elsewhere. Plus the booze in the storage room behind the printer cartridges.

R15 - psst - look underneath the fax machines.

That's not dust in those small zip baggies. Shhh though - there's not enough for everyone. (There never is)

Same reasons as R2, R4 and R11!

Who actually prints at Mediapolis/DL? More likely those printer cartridges were used to hide the liquor !

Boredom and habit, and I can't figure out how to use Reddit.

Entertainment related news/gossip. I used to go to Perez Hilton until I googled "Tom Cruise gay" which led me here.

That nut loaf looks good. I’d rather that than lobster.

R20 - About 8 years ago I also googled “Tom Cruise gay” and found this place. Now I know all about Fraus, shopbottoms, nut loaf and The Bav - my life is much the richer for it.

Nacreous layers of permacun, of course…

One comes here to ridicule, mock and troll : ancient closeted queens,lumpen femcel frauen,doty royalasses, neurotic grammarians,geriatric pornaholics, obsessed transphobes and garden variety nuts. One is never disappointed.

I get off on elder abuse.

I first got into DL to check out threads about any gay rumours on Jake Gyllenhaal (since it was my biggest Hollywood crush back then). Still it's my favorite place to discuss closeted male celebs in general.

I also like to discuss films (mostly trashing the ones I hate).

This site is funnier than hell (usually) and a stark contrast to the uptight cunts on Reddit.

To say things like “Jesus what a fucking terrible poll.”

For DL icons like Brendad Ickson and stories of Suzanne Somers getting finger fucked in the Bellagio fountains. Where else you gonna find that kind of comedy gold?

It's the only place online where one can discuss the minutiae of decades-old TV shows, commiserate over the dire political situation, bicker over the proper way to drain pasta, and lust over hot cagemeat all on one page.

I first came here years ago when I saw an article about the bitch Deidre Hall not wanting to wear a red ribbon to show support for AIDS at some awards show. It seemed harmless enough, but when I googled it, I found a post here - and people were hilariously going off on her about it, making up silly stories, etc. I laughed so hard.

Because all of you bitches beg for it.

I don’t know how I found my way here, but it was right around the start of Dav!da “poo shoes” Rochelle’s reign of terror. I was enthralled.

I first came here during the 2016 American election to read the views of (as it turned out overwhelmingly Democrat supporting) American voters. Then I read the Trump impeachment threads. It turns out I'm as susceptible to wishful thinking as the next Datalounger, and The Orange One remains a constant in all of our lives. The gossip is fun (until it's not) and there are some very clued up commentators on this board. Don't ever change (except for allowing us to edit posts).

It keeps me off the streets.

[quote]What is the main reason you come on Datalounge?

All of my socks are stuck together.

Muriel

The michfest posts were the things that drew me in initially

…for nutloaf recipes

I've been visiting this board since 2002. What keeps me coming back is the discussions of current events or movies or TV shows are mostly intelligent with the right amount of snark or humor thrown in. Some of the topics that get discussed are really niche, which can also be interesting.

The anonymity is one of the things that keeps this place going; having a username attached to your comments, allowing you to speak more freely and not have crazies stalk you, would have killed it years ago.

Lumpen.

Selected "other" because "all of the above" wasn't an option. It's not this or that but this *and* that.

the laughs, the booze, AND the boys

Is good place to make fun of my husband, Vanilla ISIS. And laugh with so many the funny gay boys. I don't laugh much, except when he trip on airplane step. Oh, also good place for Dollar Forest Christmas decoration tip and tricks.

[quote] the laughs, the booze, AND the boys

The boys? Intriguing. Tell me more.

How come GREG was not an option?

I came for the GAY celeb gossip and insider takes. Since COVID that’s seemed to have dried up like a sponge.

GERG R47!

I love The Data Lounge. I'm with R2, R11, and R15. To add to what they said. I love this place because it's a community for gay men, lesbians, and the people who love us. (I'm honestly not sure how many trans individuals are here).

I also come for the pointless bitchery, obscure Hollywood and Broadway gossip.

There are a lot of smart, witty, and interesting men and women who post here. Thank you!

And, of course, I come here for the Royals threads. What would my life be without a chance to comment on the ups and downs and navel-gazing of Harry and Meghan!?! LOL

We come here for the Condi threads!

I’m mostly here to discuss the Israel/Gaza conflict and trans issues. The politeness and well-considered commentary are a breath of fresh air, and the speed with which a nuanced and coherent consensus has been reached is astounding. It’s almost like we’ve cleared everything up and don’t need to discuss these topics again.

How can you not love a place that had threads about Jennifer Garner going to church? I mean, really.

Beter grammar and spelling.

A deep conviction that some major Hollywood execs are posting here.

This board gives you insight into people not offered in many other places. The anonymity allows people to be honest in ways that are a real eye-opener. I love the nostalgia threads and the deep dives into classic film, but I'm also fascinated by the contradictions. A board that leans very left, but can be racist and misogynistic in surprising ways. A board that lies to itself, often, and can be stuck in the past. I like it here a lot, but sometimes I go 😱

To enhance my maternal skills.

You're all horrible, awful, cheap bitches!

I come here now to have all my biases confirmed.

We haven't had a Bennifer thread in a while. Or at least a Ben Affleck drinking thread.

Gay industry gossip.

Or at least, used to, back when we had good dish shared. Now people (Gen Z) throw a fit if you speculate...

For everything, OP.

Because where I live is now pretty much all tiny Asians walking around my block wearing bucket hats, I miss chatting with people who know what a Waldorf salad is and a knock-knock joke.

R61, there are virtually no Gen Z posters here. And they're not the reason why there's no longer gossip on DataLounge.

It's simply that the posters on DataLounge who were tapped into Hollywood are mostly retired and shared their stories years, if not decades ago.

I know that if Susan Dey should ever deign to issue a comment, DL will be the first place she goes.

Ideas for dinner.

The eggs.

Squirrels. Death.

The main reason?

It's for the FAT WHORES!

[quote] Gay industry gossip.

There’s a gay industry? Where does one apply?

I miss my grandma

Unlike my friends and family - I can dip into conversations when and if I feel like talking/writing and dip out again without anyone saying a word or feeling neglected.

Socialization on my own terms and my own time - you don't get that in the real world. And it's small enough that it does feel like you're talking to people - not one person amongst a crowd in a stadium.

Some may not call it true socialization - and that's true - but it is a form of it.

[quote] there are virtually no Gen Z posters here. And they're not the reason why there's no longer gossip on DataLounge.

When I mentioned Gen Z, I wasn't exclusively speaking of Datalounge. Of course this place has very few, if any, of them. But they put up such a stink at other boards if you dare speculate. That's what I was referring to.

[quote] It's simply that the posters on DataLounge who were tapped into Hollywood are mostly retired and shared their stories years, if not decades ago.

I'm well aware of that. I was here back then. And it wasn't just retirement. Many of them got fed up with naysayers always discounting them, etc. I remember the drama well. Some just took their good dish and knowledge, and just left.

Concessions of gangbang bottoms.

I meant “Confessions”. But concessions works too.

[quote]Some may not call it true socialization - and that's true - but it is a form of it.

It's certainly the only kind I can handle.

For the waters.

R77 = R3

Smelly pussy

I appreciate the enforcement of thread hygiene by unsung heroes like r78.

Did you know they are unpaid volunteers!

to learn bout olden days

For verificatia of sizemeat.

Come for the big dicks, stay for the pie.

Fat whore!

I'm telling you NOW so I do not have to tell you THEN.

If we were thin and busy, we wouldn’t be here.

Eviscerating irritating, idiot posters and then realizing they're all my posts.

I always arrive prelubed.

But I always leave unfulfilled.

Bambi

[quote]What is the main reason you come on Datalounge?

Because I jerk off a lot.

R73, that's a fair distinction. There's just a tendency around here to blame Gen Z for anything and everything that sometimes becomes exasperating.

It's as if some posters live in constant fear that broccoli-haired twinks are going to leap out and call them mid and sus.

I ask myself that question everyday, haven't come up with a good answer yet.

Porn, Chrissie Metz, eldergays, Senior Lez, tasteful friends, dogs, cats, recipes, wisdom, frivolity, insanity, more porn, boredom mostly.

[quote] What is the main reason you come on Datalounge?

Because I hate Bonnie Franklin and you all bitch about her constantly.

I order all my groceries here.

R73 we left because you old kweens have zero interest in any industry gossip post Gone With The Wind. If the subject of gossip was born after 1935 they don't exsist. Anyone who posts actual insider info on young attractive 21st century actors is accused by senile maniacs of being a video producer from 1985. DL's Bizzaro World. 😂

Love you all, my fellow asocial shut-ins! Especially the ones who order too much delivery food 😚

If you left, R97, how are you here?

[quote] we left

This is NOT the airport, kids.

You need not announce your arrivals nor your departures.

What someone said way up thread: it’s like going to a gay bar. Except that you can anonymously say things that would get you viciously slapped IRL.

I found DL many years ago googling Charlie Sheen and the Coreys. I had no idea it was a gay site.

Afterwards it kept popping up as a search result for weird shit I googled. I was also bored with Survivor Sucks (LOOOONG time controversial poster, if you posted there you likely knew me), read for a year or so before posting and initially signed as straight chick so people had the information in case they didn't want to interact with me.

Then someone posted something dog and I switched to rescue chick as I actually had bonafides as to what I was saying. And all these years later here we are. I was super grateful for my internet family here during Covid especially.

News about the lovely and fabulous Caitlyn Jenner.

In my state, she’s openly deadnamed at her alma mater’s athletic center.

Community

And as R4 said, "cuntitude".

-R106

It can only be referred to now as Bruce R104, per decree of Emperor King Donald.

To learn about how the man go up into the man.