İnci Sözlük is a Turkish online, social community website. It has been gaining popularity since the foundation. It is known for first announcing a code anomaly in the famous web site Twitter on May 10, 2010.[1] This bug resulted in unconfirmed users being added to the following list by users exploiting it.community also abused the translation part of the facebook,by mass-voting for the dirty and suggestive translations.in official webpage of the community there is stars each for a famous pranks they organized. The website is often compared to 4chan and regarded as "Turkish" version of it.[2][3]
Even though it has a moderation system for the content, Inci Sozluk lets its users to write about almost any content(e.g. pornography, daily life), with some limitations (ex. politics, third party abuse, religious views, copyright violation and etc.). The website represents many occasional sub-cultures has grown in Turkey in the beginning of 2000s. Parodies of cliches and hatred of intellectualism are the main subjects of the discourse of the writer in the "sözlük".[citation needed] Members of the website do not hesitate to express their feelings about all matters of subject, using an especially preferred "politically incorrect" language.[citation needed] Content of the most passages in it, might be related with the Japanese world view and aesthetic approach Wabi-sabi which represents beauty of imperfection.[citation needed] Some regard the website as the method of Turkish youth to face the reality that "there is no great future waiting for them, nothing is going to be better and nobody is perfect" which is the right opposite of the promises that have been made by 90s dominant tendency; pop culture.[citation needed]
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