It was a Monday morning just like any other Monday morning: the birds were a-chirping, the office coffee was a-flowing and a fresh batch of new videos had just been a-put up on Super Deluxe. Among them was Fark TV’s Lady & The Ramp. And as was the case with nearly every other Fark TV episode that’s appeared on this site since we launched, a snarky comment was posted on it within minutes of it going up by the user known as CineKal.
But perhaps February 4th, 2008 wasn’t just another Monday like any other. Because not only did this comment from Fark TV’s most infamous detractor seem to lack the usual intensity of his trademark vitriol…
…it was also to be his last one ever.
OK, maybe not ever. We don’t actually know if he died or has otherwise been rendered unable to use a computer with a broadband connection anymore. But we do know that after faithfully criticizing more than 100 individual episodes of Fark TV for more than an entire year, CineKal has gone silent. Without any explanation, he’s completely stopped commenting on them altogether. Nearly a dozen have premiered in the month since Lady & The Ramp, and not a single one has received so much as a “NOT FUNNY” from the once-steadfast gadfly. Used to be, you could set your watch to his prickly posting habits: a Fark TV episode would go up at, say, 10 A.M; by 10:15 A.M., rest assured, CineKal had not only ripped it to pieces, but was also in the process of igniting an all-day comment war. It wasn’t pretty, but at least it was predictable. Until now.
So, what gives? What’s going on? What happened to CineKal? In this multi-part series, we’re going to try to answer some of those questions as well as figure out exactly who the man behind the hate is (or was), why he suddenly stopped hatin’ and why he ever began in the first place. Oh, and whether or not he’s actually a member of Fark TV (as many have suspected).
To Be Continued…
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