HotornotFrom WhatPort80Hot or Not is an Internet phenomenon that originated in the 1990s with non-interactive picture rating sites, on which people would post pictures to be rated between 1-10 by any visitor, for people to get a relatively objective idea of their attractiveness to strangers.The trend took off, with many online quasi-dating sites allowing participants to rate each other's looks, and the rise of rating communities on LiveJournal. UsersWhile some people use Hot or Not for a legitimate reason (teh funnay), the vast majority of users are attention starved with no social skills who brag about their ratings on their LiveJournals. As can be expected, most of these users are either fugly or camwhores (not necessarily mutually exclusive), suffer from Internet Disease, use netspeak in place of the English language, and write terrible profiles that make them seem just as annoying as they really are. To give you some idea of the language crimes the users have committed, here's an unedited profile from one of the users: mt name is teresa i like to dance travel met people i like sports I would like to man whos polite honest sexy not very jelous and over 30 or 29 years old . and has a good heart and loves me for me. The original page can be found here. Fun GamesHot or Not can be a source of endless amusement for anyone, unless you stumble across your picture and find that you were rated a "2" and hang yourself. That situation is rare, though, and has only occurred in small Indiana towns.
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