The internet's most beloved community-driven repository of stupid questions and terrible answers will be shut down forever starting May 4th. Before the rise of social media, Yahoo Answers was once a place for anyone with an internet connection to ask embarrassing and forbidden questions behind the comfort of anonymity. Today, for anyone over a certain age, Yahoo Answers is an artifact of another internet era—a time when social forums were simple and clumsy, and online identities weren't curated for hypothetical audiences. These days we're spoiled by information and in this sense it's easy to take the internet for granted and mock our past selves who didn't know shit about anything. But imagine being ten years old in 2005, suddenly granted access to an oracle of sorts. With only ten minutes before your mom gets home, you finally ask the oracle the question that's been eating away at you for weeks: How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?
RIP Yahoo Answers; you will be missed. Along with the rest of the internet, we are mourning this great loss. 2021's burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. Out of respect, we have collected some Twitter reactions to the tragic news along with some of our favorite classics from the legendary Q&A website.
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Yahoo Answers are not just answers user's post to questions on Yahoo. Yahoo! Answers is a specific type of trolling in which a stupid question gets asked, followed up by an even stupider answer, by different people and with no coordination between the two.
You know the saying that there's no such thing as a stupid question? Yeah, well that is blatantly untrue and you should feel bad if you asked any of the following questions submitted to sites like Quora and Yahoo Answers.
Just kidding...we appreciate it because we got some hearty laughs out of it!
Yahoo Answers Logic Is Flawless
Leave it to Yahoo Answers to be the place for someone trying to settle some kind of score with their cat, by pooping in their litter box, but without getting in trouble. A keen eyed user on Yahoo Answers responds to the call and recommends that he first poop next to the kitty litter, and then progress to pooping in the litter box as a step upwards. This would certainly work excellent if the person asking the question was a cat, but pretty sure cats can't actually use Yahoo Answers in an capacity. And if they did, no way a cat can spell that well.
Yahoo Answers Trolls. Bless their hearts. Obviously a troll, right?
PLEASE LET IT BE A TROLL
Yahoo Answers Failblog Purpose
Pacman looking chart showing the primary purposes for Yahoo Answers. claiming most of it ends up on Failblog.
The truth is strong with this one.
The dynamics of Yahoo Answers in which it basically invites trolls to get a place for some attention makes it more entertaining than reliable for good answers. So yeah, naturally a bunch of it will reach fail blog, cause that is where that goes. Yahoo! has known about the issues for years but it still generates traffic for them, which is better than no traffic, and also it still does have good answers to some basic questions that made it through the system over time. That alone give Yahoo Answers a reason to keep it going and pump out content for Failblog enthusiast without a concern of running out of supply.
