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By far the most asked questions in the forum concerns the rather odd issue of AIDS, not the human disease but a status that every new pooper avoids as much as they can. But in such a diverse community how is it that some many of us agree about such a simple thing (we all know when something sucks!) - and yet still so many want to understand further the nature of this particular kind of FAIL. Forum regular Christoph investigates the rather thorny issue.

For many days and nights in the YouTube Poop world, those who create their poops have usually and mostly fear a particular diagnosis. Whether it is claimed upon the source or the one who uses the source, people sling the term upon anything they find to be a complete failure.” The abbreviation of a real life problem which people have adapted to suit this community’s own definition is called “AIDS.” I am sure most of you have at one point typed out these four letters of negativity, but there seems to be a large disagreement on the topic: What is AIDS truly? I’m no fan of the term, but as long as you insist of using it, let’s try to have a deeper understanding of what it is you are saying.

The usual suspicious lies with the sources themselves. The entirety of a show or video has been claimed to be what AIDS is, whether it be the entire episode of “Mama Luigi” or every single second of CD-I Phillips games. While those who say it is the entirety of such sources have their own valid points, I’d like to believe that one cannot be doomed to failure because of a source. The source is merely the launching pad for you to propel from, and if you can not have a successful flight, it is not the launching pad’s fault. So if the launching pad isn’t to blame, then who else could it be?

It is to the belief of some people that entire sources are not AIDS, but that specific clips and sentences of such sources are the AIDS. Sentences such as “Hello, Tyrannosaurus Alan,” and “SILENCE,” could be accused of easily, as these are the things that people see over and over again. People may say that want to see more, but the more you see something that is the same, the more it becomes stale and unwanted. I suppose some people never get tired of the same old thing, but if they didn’t, then people wouldn’t accuse sources or clips to be AIDS. It can even be both sources and clips of sources to blame, because there is only so many clips of a source before you’ve beaten every last drop of interest out of the source.

If it isn’t the source or the parts that make up the source, who is left to blame? The launch pad and the airplane are in good shape, so it must be the pilot. If such a pilot has had too many drinks at his bar, surely he will crash and burn along with his vessel. The pooper him or herself is easy to blame, but for some reason we point at the source usually. It should be the manipulator to look to, not the manipulated. The choice of editing, effects, and more are what make poops entertaining. If the pooper can not create an acceptable level of manipulation, should it not be the pooper who has failed?

It is possible to believe that it could be a combination of the above: the source, the specific parts of the source, and the person who creates the end result. Featured pooper and forum user RabbitSnore says “I’d say most of the time it’s the pooper’s laziness. The material is part of it.” Others could agree easily, and the few members of the forum I spoke with all seemed to have their own definition, but mostly all of them somehow tied in the factor of the material and the editor both being an issue.

Of course this all relates back to the other accusations, making people ask “How can someone succeed if their source isn’t good enough to work with?” There are too many variables to consider in this AIDS business. Whether the launching pad is too cracked and rough for the plane and pilot to ride, the plane is old and malfunctions into a crash on the launch pad that kills the pilot, or the pilot is incapable of flying the plane from the launch pad, it all comes down to choice. Know what you are riding before you try to soar into the sky. You only get one parachute, don’t waste it.