History Main / RulesOfTheInternet

* Rule 2: [[Film/FightClub You DON'T talk about /b/.]]

* Rule 4: [[IAmLegion We are legion.]]

* Rule 8: [[{{Troll}} Anonymous can be a horrible, senseless, uncaring monster.]]

* Rule 19: [[HateDumb The more you hate it,]] [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity the stronger it gets.]]

* Rule 20: [[PoesLaw Nothing is to be taken seriously.]]

* Rule 43: [[CorruptTheCutie The more beautiful and pure a thing is]] -- [[SubvertedKidsShow the more satisfying it is to corrupt it.]]

* Rule 46: [[CallBack The internet is]] [[SeriousBusiness SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS.]]

* Rule 47: [[GirlOnGirlIsHot The only good hentai is yuri, that's how the internet works.]] Only exception may be Vanilla.

* Rule 62: [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil It has been cracked]] [[DigitalPiracyIsOkay and pirated.]] [[InformationWantsToBeFree You can find anything if you look long enough.]]
* RuleSixtyThree: For every given male character, there is a female version of that character (and vice-versa). [[RuleThirtyFour And there is always porn of that character.]]

* Rule 67: [[SturgeonsLaw 90% of fanfiction is the stuff of nightmares.]]
* Rule 77: [[Website/SomethingAwful The Internet makes you stupid.]]

* Rule 20: Nothing is to be taken seriously.

Also, almost none of the numbers are standardized, so it's not uncommon to find many rules reordered or simply replaced altogether. The only numbers that ''are'' standardized are RuleThirtyFour, RuleSixtyThree, and RuleFifty as well as possibly Rules 1 and 2 (and that's probably only because of ''Film/FightClub'').

Also, almost none of the numbers are standardized, so it's not uncommon to find many rules reordered or simply replaced altogether. The only numbers that ''are'' standardized are RuleThirtyFour and RuleSixtyThree, as well as possibly Rules 1 and 2 (and that's probably only because of ''Film/FightClub'').

* MemeticMutation: Everywhere

Also, almost none of the numbers are standardized, so it's not uncommon to find many rules reordered or simply replaced altogether. The only numbers that ''are'' standardized are RuleThirtyFour and RuleSixtyThree, as well as possibly Rules 1 and 2 (but that's probably only because of ''Film/FightClub'').

* Rule 67: 90% of fanfiction is the stuff of nightmares.

"Rules of the Internet" is a [[SparseListOfRules loose collection of rules and aphorisms]] spawned by the infamous Website/FourChan ImageBoard. Depending on who you ask, they are either not meant to be taken seriously or very SeriousBusiness. Most of them don't apply except for within the community they originated from, and the list is continuously changing but through MemeticMutation a handful have become well known.

%% Ponies are already covered by rule 44, in the interesting of keeping snowclones to a minimum.

%% Ponies are already covered by rule 44. But so what?

* Rule 85: If it exists, there is pony of it. No exceptions.

* Rule 36: [[FetishFuel No matter what it is, it is somebody's fetish]].

%% Ponies are already covered by rule 44.

* Rule 39. CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

* Rule 85: If it exists, there is [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]] of it. No exceptions.

%% Trolls want attention. The only way to defeat a troll is to ignore them.

* Rule 85: If it exists, there is [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]] of it. No exceptions.

* Rule 85: If it exists, there is [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]] of it.

* Rule 85: If it exists, there is a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pony]] version of it.

* Rule 38. No real limits of any kind apply here -- not even the sky

* Rule 33: Lurk more -- it's never enough

%% Once again, remember G.I.F.T., but more so, the dreaded Internet troll- someone who deliberately sabotages a forum with anger-inducing comments just to watch its occupants go ballistic, and/or derail a whole discussion.

* Rule 3: We are @/{{Anonymous}}