Internet sporn

There are some guys that achieve things that make you proud to be a man, then there are some guys that go and do things that reaffirm to the world that we are in fact all still little boys deep down. Allow me to elaborate.

There is a new game coming out called Spore which allows you to create you own creatures using various body parts of different shapes and sizes. Now there’s a million and one things that you could do with this game, brought to us by the creators of The Sims, and many interesting creatures that could be created.

However, one of the first things that a teaser pre-release version of the game has been used to do is create, shall we say, “top shelf” style creatures. Appropriately named “sporn”, the first of these creatures was developed by staff at PC Gamer UK, quickly followed by PC Gamer US staff who created a creature that they christened "Boobalicious". Since then there have been numerous example of “sporn” uploaded to community sites, social networks and YouTube.

MyTake – This won’t go away. Could it be a new meme? You betcha. While I wouldn’t say that it’s a creative use of the content, it does continue the trend of the online community taking original content and building on it. In a strange kind of way, it’s a bit like a kinky version of Pokenmon.